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Cardi B Calls Out Haters: 'Am I The Drama?' | SWAY’S UNIVERSE
Sep 19, 2025
Cardi B pulls no punches as she calls out haters and asks, "Am I the drama?" in this explosive interview on Sway In The Morning! The Grammy-winning artist opens up about her journey from mixtapes to global stardom, her marketing genius, and how she stays true to herself despite criticism. From her creative process to collaborating with legends like Janet Jackson, Cardi reveals the highs, the challenges, and how she handles the "drama" that follows her. Plus, hear her thoughts on motherhood, navigating fame, and juggling her personal life with her unstoppable career. Don’t miss this raw and real conversation where Cardi B proves why she’s a voice of a generation. Subscribe to Sway’s Universe for more exclusive interviews and behind-the-scenes moments with your favorite artists! #howtopromoteyourmusic #musicmarketingstrategies #musicpromotion #independentartistmarketingstrategy #howtopromotespotifymusic #musicpromotion #howtopromoteyourmusic #musicmarketingstrategies #howtogrowontiktok #musicmarketing CHAPTERS: 00:00 - Cardi B’s Impact on the Culture 01:00 - Cardi B’s Album Release Experience 07:01 - Cardi B’s Pregnancy Skincare Line 10:31 - Making of Cardi B's Album 15:06 - "Principle" ft. Janet Jackson 16:53 - Cardi B's New Music Video 18:15 - Music for Yourself vs. Fans 22:24 - What Did You Unlearn 23:46 - Meaning of “Safaree” 25:00 - Cardi B on Dominick Mysterio 27:20 - Cardi B's Standard of Excellence
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All right, man. Here we go. This is the moment we all been waiting for. Welcome to Sirius XML. Welcome to Sirius XM.
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Come on, man. When this when this young lady first came out, I remember the
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mixtape Gangster [ __ ] Music 10 years ago.
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10 years. And she first hit the scene and people discovered her also on reality TV. No one had any idea how
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great she would become. This is a era definfining artist, is she not? Right.
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Okay. This is a multiaceted artist, is she not? Right. This is a Grammy
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awardwinning artist, right? Breaking all kind of streaming records.
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She's a mom. She's a woman of the people. Give it up for the one and only Cardi B.
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[Applause] Come on.
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All right. Right. Right. Cardi, how you
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feeling, Cardi? Look, you see all this love you getting? I'm not even going to lie to you. I've
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been cra I'm crazy. I think after this week,
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well, I need to check. After this week, I got to buy everybody from my team a gift because I've been cursing everybody
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out every single day, every hour. Yes. It feels like it feels like you know
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like on the day of your birthday and you have a dinner you got to make sure that everything is like perfect right that's how it is for the past month.
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Yeah. Yeah. Your roll out has been crazy though. It's great seeing you out and about. But I think what stands out to me
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somebody been in the business for a long time is you care. You really care. I care about I don't I
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hate when people think that why do people think that I don't like like care
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or something or like this [ __ ] is just like uh yeah some people may not think you uh I
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don't know why I I just look at what you're doing when I see you going around New York City and I see you on form or I
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see you you know on subway trains and you you selling CDs like a bootleger I
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was thinking man that is so damn genius though right and and I said she putting a lot of thought into this project. Even
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that, what made you do that? I mean, if you really think about it, that's how I used to like years ago,
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like before I got famous, that's how I used to promote like my Instagram or like not even Instagram, like if I used
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to like host a party in Charlotte, I will like do something silly like that promoting like, "Hey, I'm going to be at
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this party in Charlotte." It's really not no difference. You just really got to like go back to the days where I used
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to do it just like that. I mean, of course, like my label, they do great marketing. Like, they get me like they
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get me spots on like Spotify. They have got me like like, you know, like
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highlevel deals to promote my album, but I also like to do things my way. Yeah. You know what I'm saying? So, it's just
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cuz that's how I got famous, like doing things my way. So, that's how you got famous, doing things
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your way. [Applause] [Laughter]
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I I like that. Um th this um I I I want to dive into that, too, because I I see
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you as an actress. I see you as a mother. I I see you as a rapper, but I
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see you as a businesswoman. I see someone who figured out a formula that's
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signature to herself. And at every point from SNL, every stage you've been on,
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you rose to the occasion. And then you expanded your business. What have you learned differently from when the first
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mixtape came out to now? How to be a business person at this level?
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Um, what have I learned? I mean, it's always just been the same. Like I always know how to like to promote myself to
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I guess you could call it customer service. You know what I'm saying? Like it's like like even when I was a dancer, I was a
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dancer, right? I was a dancer and there is all type of sizes, all type of
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colors, all type of pretties. Like it's like you're in a club with like 50 to 60
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[ __ ] a night. Everybody it different flavors and everything and it's just like how you going to how you going to stand out?
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So I always been trying to stand not try. I feel like I always have stand out but it's like how you going to really
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stand out? Like it's like I'm in New York. There is a lot of girls that look look like me. You know what I'm saying?
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weave with this and that. So it's like how do you do you make yourself different? Like it's like oh who that?
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And it's like you know what I'm saying every it's it's it's a lot like so it's just like I just
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always find different ways to like promote myself market myself or like what would you like to see like you know
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you know what I'm saying like it's like I feel like personality made me I was I think I was born like this cuz since I
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was young like I I shine like this like I I don't know like I always been like a pop had it. Mhm. Yeah.
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So, I just put it in my job, put it in my work, like
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That's interesting. I I liked um seeing you up I I I I won't say where I live,
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but I'm not too far from Cloud Delhi um over on on Amsterdam, right? And when I
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saw uh how many people came out and I saw you climbing on that vehicle and dancing
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on it and watching all these hordes of people just screaming your name. It reminding me reminded me of when Michael
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Jackson did it after he won his court case. I know I you know I'm just saying you know you know what was going through
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your mind when you decided to do that and was you surprised by the response? Uh well, we didn't plan it to be as big.
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Like, uh I was curious at my label like cuz like you guys underestimated the event. But I'm like telling myself like
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it's like I underestimated the event cuz to be honest with you, we was in meetings and was like, "Okay, so people
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people are going to go one by one inside the store. They're going to scan the QR codes and that's how it's going to go."
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And when we got there, it's like, "Wait, hold on. Oh, this is crazy." But I was very
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grateful because I was walking those those blocks my whole teenage years
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and cuz my grandma, she lived up the block then um I live on 157 in Broadway for like two years when I was like a
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teenager and stuff like that. So it's like going up and down these blocks. Blocks that like I seen my friends fight
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blocks that it's like I ain't going through this block because I'm I'm beefing with this big [ __ ] I'm done. And it's like these are the
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same blocks that I was walking as a teenager trying to impress [ __ ] and like just just hanging out, smoking,
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doing things in the staircase and and now and then it's like now everybody's popping up for me. Like it it it it
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feels extra special than like going to like a random place in downtown or like
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Brooklyn or a place that I never really stomp. Like that's that those are part of my stomping grounds. Like I'm from
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the Bronx, but the Heights is like area. Yeah, that's my area. Cardi, we wanted to gift you something
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else for your album and just for all of your work. Um, we appreciate the hard work and we see you. Like Sway said,
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you've always come by the Swain and Morning Show and always show love. Even when we were in a pandemic, you jumped on Zooms with us. So, we just wanted to
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say congratulations with your album. Something to keep you flying pretty and smelling good like always. So, that's
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for you. Dropping it now or dropping it later. Okay.
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Oh, it does smell good. What is the word order here? That's fragrances. It's the uh Well, you can open it. I
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want you to see what it is. Oh, they want me to see it and then we going to get ready to play on one of the things.
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Okay. You know, Cardi B, we taste over there. Xio is is a high-end um
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fragrance line. It smells really good already. Yeah. Come on, man.
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Congrats, Cardi. We are so love to you. Sway her Tracy.
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There you go. Come on. I ain't going to stink. Okay. Not at all. Not on this run. Not on this run.
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Not on this run. Right. Yeah. Um, am I the drama?
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Yeah. You are. Huh? Was that the answer? No. I I mean, I don't know. I don't
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know. No. Well, if these are my fans, if these are if these are really my fans, some if y'all really my fans, if y'all
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really be on the field with me, y'all will see that sometimes the drama finds me. The drama look for
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me. Like [ __ ] be starting [ __ ] with me. [ __ ] be starting [ __ ] with me. [ __ ] be starting [ __ ] with me. Like
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it's like and it's like no matter like sometimes sometimes I pee when somebody won't don't like me and I be wondering
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like it's like I wonder if I feel like they don't like me. And it's like hm I wonder I said something shady. I wonder
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if they apply what I said to them or I wonder if I give them a bad impression
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in person because I'm a little shy sometimes. not shy or I I'm just I'm just awkward.
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I use the word awkward and it's like I be wondering why people don't like me or sometimes I be feeling like cuz like
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people be subbing me and it's like is it me Jesus? So and and I be wondering like it's like was it me? Did I did
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something? But it's like it don't it don't really be me. [ __ ] just don't [ __ ] like me.
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Okay. So it's like you know what maybe I am the drama because it follows
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me. Even if I don't say nothing, it follows me. If you ever notice like people that I ever had an issue with, I
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never start with them first. I never pick on them first. Even when I clap back on somebody, I don't ever clap back at them. And it's not cuz I was picking
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on them. And it's like, [ __ ] you pick and now you getting clocked. It It's never been that situation. It's always
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been like, "Bitch, you picking on me." And growing up as a small girl, cuz I
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always been really small. I feel like people never really picked on me like that because I always had like a lot of
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friends. So it really makes me feel like it's like [ __ ] I know you not [ __ ] picking on me like I'm [ __ ] So I
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always felt like it's like I don't like feeling one thing I don't like I don't like feeling when I'm getting tried cuz I am not a punk. I
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will say something and if I don't say and and for a long time when I don't say nothing is because
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my fans be like don't say nothing nor because they want your attention for clout. But it's like, you know what? Why
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not give them clout? Yeah. Why not give a generous queen? Why not give them
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thought of it that way? Party. That's reverse psychology right there. I
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didn't even think of that. Yeah. Right. You need some Right. Okay. I love it. I love the title of the
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album. I want to get into it. I know a lot of these folks, we we promise them they'll be able to hear music early. And
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you just recently released the track listing. And on that track listing, I saw the iconic Janet Jackson
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[Applause] is on this project. Yo, Cardi, you got to make a song with
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Janet Jackson. That's why I like that. How did that happen? She's obviously a
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fan of your music, but how talk about your relationship. I mean, she she always she always supported me. And then
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it's just not only that, but it's like if we ever ask uh Janet Jackson or any of the Jackson family for they support.
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You'll be very surprised like they answer fast. They don't be funny with the like with the percentages and [ __ ]
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like that because some some people are so [ __ ] funny. Like it's like yeah we
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want 100% of the song plus we want plus we want this and then some some people
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just like like even today like some people was like uh upset that like
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like it's like oh well these features this this and that and it's like first of all if I send you a song and if you don't
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send it back I'm not calling you. I'm not haunting I'm I don't haunt people like I I'm also I'm not even that
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I'm prideful. Maybe I'm just from New York. Like it's just like I'm not Yeah, that's Well, I'm not going to chase you down. I
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don't even chase [ __ ] down. You know what I'm saying? Like it's like so it's like
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so like it's like I really appreciate it when a artist whether they legends,
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whether they new, whether they they so so whatever. I don't I don't give a [ __ ] Like when somebody send me like
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like songs or like they like not giving me a hard time or it's like
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I really appreciate that [ __ ] Like even like Jay-Z like it's like it was just so easy to get imaginary players.
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I have to ask you about that Cardi because I remember seeing Jay back in a video clip when he got
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clearance for Hard Knock Life with the Annie sample and he was jumping up and down and celebrating because he needed
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that sample clearance. What did it feel like for you redoing that song and him and getting that approval basically?
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Well, it was funny because it's like um when I felt like the song was already perfect, I was like, "Yes, it it's
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perfect." And then it's like, wait, oh [ __ ] now I got to wait till Jay-Z really approve it. So that means that
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Jay-Z have to hear it and have to approve it. So when he heard it and he
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approved it, and not only that, but when I got the text that he approved it, it was four for four, which it was like
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kind of funny to me. Like I felt like a real big joy. Like I was like, "Yes, oh my god." Like it's
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like it's DJZ like approving your [ __ ] That's why like even like when the song came out, like people just had like
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mixed reviews. I feel is because it's such an iconic song. It's a classic record. Yeah. Cuz I ain't nobody's gonna tell me
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that I ain't [ __ ] [ __ ] that [ __ ] up. I [ __ ] that [ __ ] up. But it's like
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that's what but it's like I can't I have to keep keep reminding myself how I was
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in the studio the day that I got his approval because it's like I can't let people steal that
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that joy. Steal that joy. Like imagine you asking God for something, right? Mhm.
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Cuz I believe in God and the devil and the devil like to play a lot of tricks. So imagine if you're asking God, God,
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God, give me this, give me this, give me this, give me this. And then you finally got it and then it's like you don't like
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it no more because the devil tricked you and and and believing that it's not good
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enough. Something that you wanted so bad is not good enough or the blessing is not big enough. And now God is looking
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at you like, "Bitch, you asked for this [ __ ] and I give it to you because this [ __ ] right here,
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right? Right. Tell you it's not good enough. you not thanking me. That's what that's why I
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was like that whole It was a tough week. Yeah, it was such a tough week. Yeah, you got a lot of feedback from
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that song. It was It was really tough cuz it wasn't like oh, they just giving me feedback on the song. Like
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people was really trying to discredit and destroy everything that I have put
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and done and did for the past seven years. And and I don't give a [ __ ] Nobody could discredit this [ __ ] right
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here. Like come on. Hey Jay, one of the greatest of all time. He approved it.
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Yeah. And it's like it's Jay-Z. Like I kept saying to myself like it's like I kept listening because it's like people
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picked it so much apart that I was like, "Oh my god, do the song sound choppy? Do you do you can you hear like my like my
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accent everything?" I'm like, "Hold on. Jay-Z heard the song Up and Down. So why am I even question?
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Why am I even questioning myself?" Yeah. No, [ __ ] that. There you go. Okay.
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Yeah. [ __ ] that. All right. All right. So, I'mma uh we going to play the new song with Janet Jackson. Can we start with that first?
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Principal. It's It's Twom. Okay. It's Twom. It's But I'm going just play that. I'mma
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just play that one. It's called Principal. I did it a bit ago. Is it Is it a play off of Pleasure
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Principal? Huh? Is it a play off of her pleasure principal? Mhm.
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And um I was gonna play some of the I'm only gonna play one feature like song because
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I I I [ __ ] with y'all. I don't know if there's pay more in this. Okay. Okay. Good. Good. Good. All right.
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We going to roll into it, J1. All right. All right. All right. We back up. Sirius XM. We up. When it's
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up, it's up. We up. Brand new one right there. You got it first right here on Sirius XM. The fact that you got to
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collaborate with Janet Jackson, that's just in itself must be surreal and
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unbelievable. Did y'all did she come in the studio or was it No. Well, we sent we sent her like u
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which is I'm not even going to say about the other song. Okay. Cuz cuz All right. So like I have the
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song a certain way but she wanted like the production to sound a certain way
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and she also wanted like certain artist to be honest. So was like she took she
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took over the the whole [ __ ] and it's like I ain't going to tell her nothing
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like like it's like okay well if you want the the beat to a little different
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Uhhuh. and I'm going to say what Johnny Jackson want me to [ __ ] do. Like what am I going to say? Like no. Okay, Johnny.
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Where the [ __ ] you want? Where the [ __ ] you want? You get it. I'm just looking at that video.
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Oh my god. I just shot a video two weeks ago. Mhm.
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I shot it. When was it? Okay. So, I think when was
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it? I think like I had court like on a Thursday around there and then Friday I had to like do the music video in LA.
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It's a good video. It's going to come out this week. Okay. It's going to come out this week.
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It's It said it's It's different than what I than what I do. Uhhuh. In this video.
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Mhm. How so? Well, like the video got like a story line. I don't really do music video with
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story lines cuz it's just not me. I don't Yeah.
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It's also very like acting a lot of acting in it.
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Yeah. I don't like stuff like that. But hey, hey, it's like, all right, I got to do something a little bit that I don't
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usually do or make me feel uncomfortable. Mhm. I'm not a mushy person. Yeah.
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Well, I am. I'm a big cry. But you're not a mushy person. You say
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in private. Okay. In private. In private, but like I'm not like it's like gh
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Oh, lovely. Okay. Well, I love that you're outside of your comfort zone because that's usually where growth resides and I think
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about, you know, what's really complex and interesting about being an artist from like my viewpoint looking at it is
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your personality which is so magnetic is also the product. You know, al oftent
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times fans feel like we own you but you own yourself. And so I wonder when you
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go into the studio, is Cardi thinking about how to service her fans or is the
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first thought I want to make something for me and for me only and we'll see how they feel after?
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It it could go it's really both ways to be honest with you. Like for example, like the imaginary players.
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I feel like like my like my fans like can you believe like even so not
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even just the haters like even some of my fans and it's like this why sometimes like I love my fans and you should cater
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to your fans because at the end of the day these are the people that buy your product and everything but you shouldn't
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always you you got to you got to have like a little bit of yourself for you that like pleases you. Mhm.
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For example, like it's like Imaginary Players like people was like, "We want a big pop record, pop this, top 10 this,
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and it's like, but this this is the song that I love. This is one of my favorite songs from my album." And this is a song
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that is like so nostalgic for me. And like that I took my time doing and and I
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really love and because it's not like a a upy up who wppity [ __ ] [ __ ] [ __ ] pop this [ __ ] like it's like y'all going to
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drag me for it. And it's like, yeah, there was haters, but it was also my own [ __ ] fans. And it's like, you know what?
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Mhm. You got to go in there doing what makes you happy, doing what makes you like
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cuz I I get corny ass [ __ ] beats, corny ass [ __ ] um hooks, corny ass
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references that it's just like it's corny to me and and like I think sometimes people think that they got me
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figure out because of certain songs and I be like this [ __ ] is [ __ ]
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corny. it it but that's what probably somebody like it's like sometimes now that there's AI people be fake leaking
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AI songs and the fans be like yes and it's like that [ __ ] is ugly
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you'll be offended like it's like that [ __ ] is terrible like it's like hilarious no no so you just you you got to do what
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you want to do you got to do what you want to do and you got to live your life how you want to [ __ ] live it cuz you're experiencing your own
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evolution in real time And then we catch it a bit later. Yeah.
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When you love a song, is it immediate or are you an artist where it's like, "Okay, let me make sure
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that I love it. Let me hear it in the car. Let me hear it in this space. Let me play it for these folks." And then
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you're like, "All right, this is good to go." No. Immediate. Okay. Immediate. Once I hear a beat or once I
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hear like a like a good like hook reference and stuff, like if I hate it,
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I hate it right away. Sometimes all I have to hear is two words. Choppity chop chop.
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All I have to do is hear two words and I already know I don't [ __ ] like it. I don't even have to get like in the
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middle of the beat sometimes. Like I already know I don't [ __ ] like it. Like sometimes people be like, "Why you don't work with this producer? Why?" Cuz
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I don't. They production is not for me. I do not like a lot of things. This is why the album took too long. Everybody
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always [ __ ] think that it's like I got the album took too long cuz I got [ __ ] 500 kids. But it's not
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really my kids. I'm just very picky. So it cuz I I remember recalling you
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saying on the interview before that you were indecisive about the songs, right? And I didn't
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know if it meant because you weren't sure if the songs were good enough or did you have so many you wasn't sure how
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you wanted to put them together, but it that's part of why it took so long. No, I just sometimes I like something
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and some days I be like, you know what, I hate this song. Uhhuh.
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I don't like it. It doesn't feel like something that I want to hear in two years from now. Yeah.
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Scrap. And that's my team be like, "This [ __ ] is insane."
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Uh-huh. She's insane. Put her in a mental hospital. We never going to get an album. Yeah. Seven. Hey, seven years. That's a
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great number though. The number seven, right? Took seven years. Uh I want to go to one
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of our our our subscribers here, one of our citizens here. Let me go to uh
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Jasmine Nation. Jasmine. Oh, Jasmine. Oh, Jasmine Nation.
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Hey, what up Jasmine? How you doing?
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Nerves of me, girl. Be nervous of him. Harlem, stand up.
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Put this phone here. I get this. J1. That's J1 with the mic right there. VP of programming. I see you J1.
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All right, go for it. Um, my question. Yes. Yes. I might have forgot my question. I wrote that at like 5 in the morning.
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Here's your question for you to ask it though. It's not right of me asking it. Okay. So, I'm sorry. I wanted to ask
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you, what is something about yourself that you had to unlearn to get to where you are today?
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Unlearned. Unlearned. What do we mean? Like a habit, like something you had to stop
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anything. Uh, I don't know because I still got the same habits that it's just I feel like
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I don't I don't care what y'all say. I don't care what people say. I don't respond as much as I want to respond. And I don't go in as much as I want to
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go in because it's like there's a lot of lot there this there's people that be like, "Bitch, bitch."
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So, I have to like hold back from a lot of things that I really want to say.
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Okay. I want to go to another song while we here. Okay. Cuz I'm from Oakland
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and u you had the Oakland queen herself, Kani.
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on the track and uh called safe, right? Yes. What's the what's the meaning behind
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that? What's the what's the concept behind safe?
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Well, I'm going to say what it is, but I'm not going to give you that whole surprise about it. But safe
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cuz I want to say so much, but I can't I don't want to say so much. But safe, I kid I to my man.
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Okay. All right. Okay. That's what's up.
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She mushy in private. She mushy in private. Yeah, she mushy in private. Yeah, mushy in private.
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Oh, that's what that is. But the way you looked when you said my man, you look real mushy right there.
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All right. Well, you you picked the right person for the track. She's amazing. Perfect. Yes. Let's hear a little bit of that.
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Okay. I like that. I think it's safe to say that's a
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banger, right? Okay. Okay. I want to go to some more of our our our uh subscribers are here.
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Shaheen Reed, legendary journalist. I know you got a question. Let Shaheen Reed get that.
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What's up, Cardi? How you doing? Uh, you know, I want to ask I'm a huge wrestling fan. I got a wrestling podcast. Rap on
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wrestling podcast. I want to ask you about wrestling. You hosted SummerSlam. We know Eddie Guerrero is your favorite
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wrestler. What do you think about his nephew Dirty Dom? How he's getting all
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of this love being a bad guy. They cheered him at SummerSlam. They cheering him all over the world. What do you
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think about Dirty Dom's ascension? Well, I'm not really that familiar with him, but if he's doing like the bad guy
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thing like Eddie Guerrero used to like do, I mean, if if they if they cheer him
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on, then it's like he doing a good job. You know what I'm saying? Like cuz like everybody need a little bit like a
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little bit of like bad like Edge used to be like bad. Randy Ortiz used to be like
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bad and everything and it's just like you you you needed that. Now everybody going to be the John Cena of the [ __ ]
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You know what I'm saying? Not everybody going to be the Batista the nice guy and stuff like that. You you need that especially because
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freaking wrestling is very male driven but not just male driven like it's like
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I don't know the I I know the word. It's like it's not even dominated. It's just
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like it's like guys that really like hate girls.
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Like it's like even when I was there, the way that they like scream for like the females and the way that like the
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scream for the males, it was so it was so different that I was like, damn, they really don't give a [ __ ] about the [ __ ] I got on top of that robe and I
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almost buzzed my ass. You think that [ __ ] is easy? until you get up there like, "Wait, hold on." And then I don't
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got no time for a [ __ ] to be smacking me. Find another tag team [ __ ] You know
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what I'm saying? Find another one. But um either But either way, so I think they had so many fights scheduled that
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they like I was like, "Hey, you think I could do like Come back out and everything." They had a lot of fight
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schedules. Like I don't know if you noticed like Summerslam, it was like overly packed or like so many old acts
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came back too. So it was just they they had they had a filled up schedule.
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Thank you. It was fun. All right, Miss uh Tracy P. Yeah, absolutely. I mean from hearing
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safe to hearing principal and then hearing you share like your standard of excellence. It's so clear in the music
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like the Friday me. I'm with that September 19th like pull up faster than ever before. And it's made me also
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curious, Cardi, because obviously what draws us to you is how transparent you are when it comes to how you utilize the
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tool of social media, when it comes to your lyricism, and you've been so generous through the seven years that
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we've known you as an artist for who you are today. How do you determine what is
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worthy of being shared with the public and what you want to safeguard? H there's a lot of things that like I I
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don't like share that people will be so surprised.
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There is a lot of things that I really don't don't share. Like I I share certain things but it's like
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I don't you know what I'm saying? Like even even if I have problems like with any of my family members or like my
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friends, you wouldn't even know. You you don't know at all at all. And I be
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beefing with my friends all the time. You wouldn't even [ __ ] know. Even when when it comes to like [ __ ] with
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with [ __ ] the only [ __ ] the only reason why why [ __ ] gets sloppy with [ __ ] is because they sloppy, not
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because of me. And it's like when it come when it become sloppy, that's when it's like, well, well, I got to tell you the story.
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The story was y going to make the narrative like like y going to make the narrative. So, I'm
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going to think, but so far it's just like it's kind of kind of weird cuz it's like maybe I did gave
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them too much, but it's like when you don't give them too much is bad, too. Because it's like you don't give them too much, then people run with a run
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with a whole crazy narrative about you. Like, there's a lot of artists that they just quiet and people just drag them and
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people make this whole personality of them. Like, it's like she's a [ __ ] She thinks she better than somebody else. Not Not just about me, but everybody
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else. And it's just like I'm going to defend that. If you say if you trying to say something about me
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that that I'm not, then I'm going to I'm going to defend it. [ __ ] I I love If you don't mind real quick. I
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love that you shared your daughter fashion week. I thought it was so dope. It made me smile, Cardi. Like it did. It
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was It was fly. It looked fun. It was something that I wish I could have done with my mother at one point. It was
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dope. But everything that you've learned now and everything everybody talking about out of your children, which one
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you think is most prepared to like handle a spotlight and entertainment or if if if you allow them to go into the
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industry? probably culture because I feel like
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I don't I don't really know what my son is going to be into and I don't really I mean the baby's a baby
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but like culture she's so girly and it's like I she's in so many different programs like it's like I could tell she
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does good in school but it's like I could tell that it's not like her passion right like her grandma used to be like yeah I
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hope she's a Delta like me and everything and then I just be like I don't think that's her passion. I don't
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think that's going to be her role, but who knows? But she's just so girly. She's actually even more She's more
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girier than me. Wow. I love actually. So, I feel like that's what
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she's going to be one day. And it's just like, ah, if you going to be that one day, you you better open you better be
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smart or some [ __ ] Well, you better open a business. And I just hope that like it don't crush her because I criticism
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could crush you. And it's just like I don't want you could do whatever you want, but I just don't let this
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criticism crush you. Mhm. Cuz it will it could take you out your game. It could take you out your game. For
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real. For real. You've said that. You've actually had to say that to her already. I not just like that, but I always just
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I always like give her so many things like you're beautiful, you're this, love your this, love your hair.
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Cuz that's amazing. That's true. That's you have to like it's like do you know you're so pretty? Like you have to
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constantly say that to your kids because sometimes you'll be you'll be surprised. Like for example like my
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daughter she'll be like I want I want my hair to the floor. Your hair is not to the floor but it's like your hair is
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pretty. Oh look at your hair girl. Your hair is grow. Yeah. You got to tell you got to tell things like that to your kid. You always got to
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build your kids up like that. What's a trickier responsibility? Being the voice
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of a generation or being a mother? Trickier respons. Oh, being a mother.
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Being a mother. Like it's like I will really hate I would really hate like my kids. I
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always say that like it's like the goal is for them not to be lazy. You know when somebody is just lazy.
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Yeah. Why you call them flat tires?
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Flat tires. There is people that just don't have that drive. No matter how many, no matter if they have all the
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resources, if you just don't have it, you will never be nothing.
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And not just being famous at anything. So, it's like there's some people that is like,
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why you don't have a job? You got two legs and you're young. Why are you not working? Why you need this? You could go
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get it. I really hate to have a lazy child. That is my biggest fear. to have
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a a lazy child. Wow. I'm a [ __ ] I don't give a [ __ ] what you do. Just don't be lazy. Because there's people
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that is like, yo, a lot of people failure is because they [ __ ] lazy. Just lazy.
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Yeah. They lazy. They don't want to do nothing. And I surround myself with a lot of
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people and like even myself. Like it's like if you complain to me about some [ __ ] and I just be
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[Laughter] Do you know what I went through today?
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Do you know that my [ __ ] wakes up every single day at 6:00 a.m. and come home at 7 p.m. because he got to work? Do you
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know what I have to do today? I don't want I don't give a [ __ ] if you couldn't get a [ __ ] this. That [ __ ] be pissing
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me off. Don't complain to me about the dumbest [ __ ] Yeah, dead ass. Cuz I don't get no sleep. This whole
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month I ain't slept for nothing. Even when I was doing the court [ __ ] everybody have the courty
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court. I was waking up at 5:30 and going to bed at [ __ ] 3:00 a.m. when I had to go to court.
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And I had to go to court. You had to go to court. Then you have to do [ __ ] for your album. You I only had one like a
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couple of weeks left. You have to do it. Yeah. Mhm. I saw you was on the train at 1:30 in
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the morning. I was like, "Shit with the rest." But And you have to do it. You have to do it. You have to do it. This have to
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go at a certain time. This have to go up tomorrow. You have to do it cuz tomorrow I can't do it because
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I got to do something else from day to night. Day to night. Oh, why you so this? Why you so that? Because I
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you got to work. You got to work. See, stop complaining about like it's like you got to put yourself if you feel
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uncomfortable. If you feel tired, then then you then then the job is being done. Yeah.
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You got to feel uncomfortable. You got to you got to feel uncomfortable. That's a word. That's the gym right there. I got Man,
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that's the Cardi B gym. You ain't going to be trying. I like how you use your court pictures for your for your
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promotion, too. Well, it was my fans idea, so I was like, you know what? [ __ ] it. And it
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worked. I I do listen to the I do I do listen to the Okay, we got we got time for one more
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song. Hey, Cardi, you you That was enough. That's enough.
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That's enough. I know. We've heard her speak out on politics.
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We've heard her speak out on love, business, women, you know, culture, the co the
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whole gamut. So, I want to say congratulations to you. It's been awesome watching this.
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Thank you. And take advantage of that. Yes. Take advantage of that. Like, you know,
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y need to take advantage of that. Like cuz like you never you never know what you could get from it. Like cuz it's like sometimes I just be wishing like
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it's like if I had the internet when I was in high school, I would have been rich. I would have been [ __ ] rich. I would
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have been [ __ ] selling something. I would take advantage from me. Like it's like there's people giving
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their opinion and they get $10. Yeah. From Tik Tok. Y
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$10 that I wish I somebody was giving me. You know what I'm saying? Like it's like you just never know. Like take
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advantage. Like I feel like this generation is so [ __ ] lucky. [ __ ] lucky [ __ ]
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They got everything. [ __ ] got everything. Y get y'all get y'all get the internet.
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Y'all get to promote. Y'all get to have sympathy for [ __ ] that is like what the [ __ ] you crying about. You crying to have
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sympathy [ __ ] We didn't have sympathy. Nobody gave us gave a [ __ ]
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They get to have sympathy. Yo, one time man. Am I the drama?
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No, I'm just Wait, what? What was the question? No, no, that was just a statement. That was a statement. That was a statement.
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All right, give it up for Cardi B, y'all.
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Standing ovation. [Applause]
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