Cardi B might be pretty and petty — but she wants to be clear that she is not a bully. During an Instagram Live video Thursday night, the Am I The Drama? rapper revealed she passed on releasing a video for “Pretty & Petty,” her BIA diss track, on the day of her foe’s album release day.
“This is how I work: I know how stressful it is to put an album out. And I know how fucked up you be in the mind when you put an album out. I feel like if I do a video to ‘Pretty and Petty’ this week, or today… I feel like I would be bullying,” Cardi explained on her Live. “And I don’t want to feel like a bully.”
The Instagram Live came as BIA — who’s Cardi’s direct target on “Pretty and Petty” — released her own album, titled Bianca. The album included a collaboration with Becky G, “Hard Way,” which sampled Shakira’s “Hips Don’t Lie,” and featured collabs with Young Miko and Ty Dolla $ign.
“When I bully, God takes from me. If the bitch ain’t messing with me, and didn’t sub me in her dusty ass album, I’m not gonna do a video reciting her diss track and shit like that on a day I know she stressed,” Cardi explained. “Because then, I know God will punish me.”
Cardi added that she’ll instead choose to make a video for “Pretty and Petty” next week, and choose a different video to her songs to post on Friday. “I’mma be nice to you because it’s your album day,” Cardi said. “I don’t want to add to your stress. I’m not that bad person that people think I am.”
On the BIA diss track, Cardi named the singer directly, rapping “Name five BIA songs, gun pointin’ to your head,” “It’s been two years since you put a number on the board,” and “They only book you when they can’t afford Coi [Leray].”
Cardi previously told The Breakfast Club that their beef started when BIA accused Cardi of copying her style. She explained she decided to fire back at BIA because she mentioned her kids.
“She did her little diss and it was trash… I could’ve [left] it at that, but everything on social media is gonna be seen,” Cardi explained. “When my kids grow up one day and they see that you mentioned them, they’re gonna ask me, ‘So what you said? What you did [in response]?’ I’m not gonna tell my kids, ‘I felt like she took the high road cause she lost, cause people wasn’t on her side.’ Naw, I’m not sayin’ that to my kids. I’m [gonna be] like, ‘You see how I violated?”
