Cardi B has seemingly responded to Nicki Minaj throwing shade at her and Megan Thee Stallion while accusing Billboard of disqualifying some of her album sales.
On Thursday (December 14), Nicki took to X (formerly Twitter) where she called out Billboard for allegedly discounting 100,000 first-week units of her new album Pink Friday 2 due to her “100 Barbz” contest requiring fans to buy four copies each.
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In her rant, she also alluded to Cardi and Meg’s 2020 “WAP” campaign in which they joined forces with Cash App to donate $1 million to women in need.
“Been discussing my 100 barbz contest for months,” Nicki wrote in a since-deleted post. “They said billboard reached out to say they gon take away sales for me telling y’all about the 100 barbz thing. Can’t wait until these next 6 hours are up so I can tell y’all some shit.
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“You can give out millions in cashapp money tho. Lol. So barbz, me asking you to show PROOF of something that was already DELIVERED OR PURCHASED IS AGAINST THE RULES. SO pls disregard. Apologies.”
Shortly after, Cardi B appeared to react to Nicki Minaj’s comment by liking a post that pointed out some key differences between her and Megan’s “WAP” campaign and Nicki’s Pink Friday 2 contest.
“The CashApp partnership for WAP was during the end of the second week. It was already number one and it required NO proof of purchase and didn’t even require you to be a Cardi fan,” it read. “The only requirement was that you had to be a WOMAN who could use the extra funds.”
After her “like” was picked up by The Neighborhood Talk, the Bronx rap star hopped into the comments to address the commotion.
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“Please post who was liking shit with my name in it first,” she wrote. “Please post how because of that I started gettin dragged on Twitter about lies!! Ya always posting my response but never when I’m being antagonized and lied on.. I was minding my business!!
“WAP debuted at # 1 and I teamed off with cashapp AFTER to give away money for women who was in need during the pandemic.. no mention or purchase of my music needed!! It was to help THEM. Ya keep poking at me with narratives and then when I finally response I’m the issue. Keep my name out ya mouth!!”
Outside of this apparent flare-up in her long-running feud with Nicki Minaj, Cardi B recently confirmed that she had split from her husband Offset.
“I’ve been single for a minute now,” she revealed on Instagram Live earlier this month, shortly after the Migos rapper was accused by Blueface of sleeping with Chrisean Rock — allegations Offset quickly denied.
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“I know today has been an eventful day. I don’t pay mind to none of that. I don’t care about none of that. I don’t know if y’all been getting clues from me from my Lives, from my Stories, when I put certain music [up] or from my unfollowings.”
She continued: “When it comes to today’s events, I don’t think it’s true. I don’t care to find out because I’ve been single for a minute now. I have been afraid to — not afraid — I just don’t know how to tell the world. But I feel like today has been a sign.
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“I want to start 2024 fresh, open. I’m curious for a new life, for a new beginning. And yeah, I’m excited! New look, new life, new everything […] I’ve been going so hard for 2024 to go directly as I want it to. I feel like in 2017 I was single, and that’s when I worked the hardest.”
