{"id":26921,"date":"2019-07-12T11:25:17","date_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/b1056376"},"modified":"2019-07-12T11:25:17","modified_gmt":"2019-07-12T17:25:17","slug":"cardi-b-claps-back-after-jermaine-dupri-calls-todays-female-rappers-strippers-rapping","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/music-news\/cardi-b-claps-back-after-jermaine-dupri-calls-todays-female-rappers-strippers-rapping\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Claps Back After Jermaine Dupri Calls Today&#8217;s Female Rappers &#8220;Strippers Rapping&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"block-0-img\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"31.5\">\n<div class=\"post-content__image\" readability=\"33\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"image--full\" src=\"https:\/\/akns-images.eonline.com\/eol_images\/Entire_Site\/2019612\/rs_1024x759-190712091928-1024x759-cardi-jermaine-gj-7-12-19.jpg?fit=inside|900:auto&amp;output-quality=90\" border=\"0\" title=\"Cardi B, Jermaine Dupri \" alt=\"Cardi B, Jermaine Dupri \" data-width=\"1024\" data-height=\"759\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"image__credits\">Daniel Torok\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images, Tibrina Hobson\/WireImage<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"photo-txt-0\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"47.157894736842\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-photo-text\" readability=\"35.368421052632\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/cardi_b\">Cardi B<\/a><\/strong> has a few words for <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/jermaine_dupri\">Jermaine Dupri<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>After the 46-year-old&nbsp;artist likened&nbsp;today&#8217;s female rappers&nbsp;to &#8220;strippers rapping,&#8221; the &#8220;Bodak Yellow&#8221;&nbsp;star took to social media to respond to his comment.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;OK, guys. So, I have seen a lot of people write that, nowadays, female rappers only talk about their p&#8212;y and s&#8211;t. And now that Jermaine Dupri brung it up, now I&#8217;m going to say something about it, right?&#8221; she said in a video posted to Instagram on Thursday. &#8220;First of all, I rap about my p&#8212;y because she&#8217;s my best friend. You know what I&#8217;m saying? And second of all, it&#8217;s because it seems like that&#8217;s what people want to hear.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In fact, Cardi said people talked &#8220;mad s&#8211;t&#8221; when she tried to be &#8220;careful&#8221; with her music. She also defended her female artists who haven&#8217;t gotten the attention they deserve.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;There&#8217;s a lot of female rappers that be rappin&#8217; their ass off and don&#8217;t be talkin&#8217; about their p&#8212;y and don&#8217;t be talkin&#8217; about, you know, getting down and dirty, and y&#8217;all don&#8217;t be supporting them,&#8221; she continued. &#8220;Y&#8217;all don&#8217;t be supporting them, and they be mad dope.&#8221;&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>As a result, she said listeners shouldn&#8217;t &#8220;blame that s&#8211;t on us when y&#8217;all are the ones not supporting them.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-2\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"67.443237907206\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"28.904244817374\">\n<p>Cardi also <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamcardib\/status\/1149695500934942721\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">clapped back at a Twitter<\/a> user who weighed in on the topic.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Yeah, Jermaine Dupri&#8217;s a dickhead. I get it,&#8221; the follower tweeted. &#8220;But Cardi B is the LAST person that&#8217;s allowed to respond because it literally is her.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s literally not me,&#8221; she fired back. &#8220;&#8216;Get Up 10,&#8217; &#8216;I Like It,&#8217; &#8216;Thru Your Phone,&#8217; &#8216;Be Careful&#8217; and my mixtapes was not about my p&#8212;y. Soooo&#8230;stop it! And if bitches wanna rap about they p&#8212;y so what? Is the most powerful feature on a woman&#8217;s body! It gives birth and s&#8211;t. It pays bills.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>In addition, she responded to a follower who commented on a snapshot of the tweet shared by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/Bz0jU2SnJDY\/?igshid=1xk33vxdobla3\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Baller Alert<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I see once a prostitute always a prostitute,&#8221; the social media user wrote. &#8220;This bird always responding to everything and Cardi B, p&#8212;y pays bills, if you are a lazy bitch who don&#8217;t want to work.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Honey, you don&#8217;t gotta prostitute to manipulate men,&#8221; Cardi replied. &#8220;Men want what they can&#8217;t have and they&#8217;ll do and give anything for it. Let that sink&#8230;Learn how to mindf&#8211;k.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<div id=\"text-4\" data-hook=\"scrollable-block\" readability=\"65.143867924528\">\n<section data-textblock-tracking=\"text-block-text-only\" data-swiftype-index=\"false\" readability=\"21.714622641509\">\n<p>Jermaine made the comment after he was asked if he had a favorite female rapper in an interview with <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/music\/jermaine-dupri-believes-da-brat-broke-the-mold-for-female-rappers\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><em>People Now<\/em>.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I can&#8217;t really say,&#8221; he said about picking a top artist from today. &#8220;You know the reason I can&#8217;t say? [It&#8217;s] because I feel like they all rapping about the same thing, and I don&#8217;t think they&#8217;re showing us who&#8217;s the best rapper. For me, it&#8217;s like strippers rapping. As far as rap goes, I&#8217;m not getting who is the best rapper. I&#8217;m getting, like, &#8216;Oh OK. You got a story about you dancing in the club. You got a story about you dancing in the club. You got a story about you dancing in the club.&#8217; OK, who&#8217;s going to be the rapper?&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He then said, &#8220;At some point, somebody&#8217;s going to have to break out of that mold and just\u2026talk about other things [and] just rap about other things besides that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Watch Cardi&#8217;s video to see her response.<\/p>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eonline.com\/news\/1056376\/cardi-b-claps-back-after-jermaine-dupri-calls-today-s-female-rappers-strippers-rapping?cmpid=rss-000000-rssfeed-365-topstories&#038;utm_source=eonline&#038;utm_medium=rssfeeds&#038;utm_campaign=rss_topstories\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: E! Online<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Daniel Torok\/Patrick McMullan via Getty Images, Tibrina Hobson\/WireImage Cardi B has a few words for Jermaine Dupri. After the 46-year-old&nbsp;artist likened&nbsp;today&#8217;s female rappers&nbsp;to &#8220;strippers rapping,&#8221; the &#8220;Bodak Yellow&#8221;&nbsp;star took to social media to respond to his comment. &#8220;OK, guys. So, I have seen a lot of people write that, nowadays, female rappers only talk about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[98],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26921","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-music-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-13 18:25:20","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KIFT - The LIFT FM","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26921","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26921"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26921\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26921"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26921"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kift\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26921"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}