Cardi B Is Over Being Famous (But She Still Likes Being Rich)

May 4, 2022 / Posted by:

As a non-famous person, I like to think that there are a number of benefits to being famous, regardless of what the music video for Britney Spears’ “Lucky” would have led me to believe. But if Cardi B is ever reincarnated as a lamp-dwelling genie, she’d likely warn me just to wish for the rich part of being rich and famous. Cardi B is both, but she’d happily settle for simply being rich, if it means being forgettable enough to keep people from talking shit about her on the internet.

This recent revelation happened after a video started making the rounds on social media, which appeared to show Billie Eilish looking over at Cardi’s direction, and mouthing the words, “so weird” at Cardi’s Met Gala after-party. Some people on the internet ran with it, and deduced that Billie was calling Cardi weird. Here’s the clip, which could really benefit from a lip-reading expert’s interpretation.

But a lip-reading expert wasn’t needed, for Billie and Cardi decided to clear this up personally. Well, technically just Cardi. Billie’s clarification was given directly to Cardi herself, who then subsequently shared it with us non-famous normals. Cardi posted a voice memo that was allegedly sent from Billie to Cardi, in which an embarrassed Billie explains that she was calling the people around Cardi weird, due to the crowd shoving their phone cameras in Cardi’s face. Cardi added that she loved Billie and that there’s zero-point-zero percent of animosity between the two, regardless of what the internet wants to believe.

That single tweet would have been enough, but Cardi wasn’t done. She hopped onto an Instagram live stream and laid it all out, explaining that she truly doesn’t like being a famous person, specifically because of all the bullshit gossip she has to deal with on a regular basis. Like, for example, how just moments early she had been dragged into a dumb, messy internet fight between herself and Billie Eilish. via HotNewHipHop:

“I hate fame. I hate being famous. I really hate it,” she remarked during the stream. “Let me tell you something: If you ever wish to be rich and famous, don’t wish to be famous, wish to be rich.”

From there she explains that she’s been feeling good in recent days hanging out with Offset and partying, but as soon as she had to do something that will be covered by the media, her mood was ruined.

“I feel like God cursed me with fame,” she added.

And of course, it wasn’t long before some people jumped in and accused Cardi of being two-faced about fame because she dumped all her issues with fame onto her 129 million Instagram followers. What, was she supposed to go to a therapist about this? Cardi would be three seconds into explaining that made-up beef between Billie Eilish after the Met Gala, and any reasonable therapist would shake their head and go, “I’m so lost. Is there a social media platform you could use to work this out on?

This is the second time Cardi has talked shit about the shit-stirrers of social media. Last month, Cardi quit Instagram and Twitter last month after she got pissed off with some nosy types poking around about her family and personal life on Twitter. As for Cardi’s claim that God has cursed her with fame, well – we’d have to get a verbal confirmation from God on that one. And the last time I checked, God was notoriously difficult to reach for comment. But God probably didn’t curse Cardi with fame. If anything, God cursed the “rich” part of being “rich and famous.” The woman gave her husband a $2 million check for his birthday. If that’s not the work of God fucking around with your financial fate, I don’t know what is.

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