Cardi B has hit back at Elon Musk for calling her “a puppet” for U.S. presidential candidate Kamala Harris.
After the Bodak Yellow rapper suffered teleprompter issues during her speech at a Harris campaign rally in Milwaukee on Friday, the X and Tesla boss claimed that she was “another puppet who can’t even talk without being fed the words”.
Responding on X, Cardi wrote, “I’m not a puppet Elon.. I’m a daughter of two immigrant parents that had to work their a** off to provide for me! I’m a product of welfare, I’m a product of section 8, I’m a product of poverty and I’m a product of what happens when the system is set up against you….But you don’t know nothing about that. You don’t know not one thing about the American struggle….”
She then criticised the performance of the South African entrepreneur’s social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, by adding, “PS fix my algorithm.”
During her speech at the rally, the I Like That hitmaker had to stall for time after the teleprompter failed and was subsequently given a phone to read from.
She told the crowd, “Just like Kamala Harris, I too have been the underdog, I’ve been underestimated, my success belittled and discredited. Let me tell you something: Women have to work ten times harder, perform ten times better, and still people question us, how we got to the top. I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I always stand up to one.”
Americans will go to the polls to vote on Tuesday.
