Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B’s “Pretty & Petty” responds to BIA’s “SUE MEEE?” with pointed lyrics and private rebuttals.
• She instructed “The Breakfast Club” that BIA’s point out of her youngsters was a breaking level.
• Cardi additionally addresses dishonest rumors she believes BIA helped gas throughout her marriage to Offset.

Cardi B is rarely one to carry again, and her long-anticipated sophomore album, AM I THE DRAMA?, proves it as soon as once more. The Bronx rapper used one observe, “Pretty & Petty,” to straight deal with her feud with fellow artist BIA, a beef that has simmered publicly for over a yr. During her latest look on “The Breakfast Club,” Cardi opened up about why she selected to air it out on her newest drop.

“Sometimes a girl will come out [to diss me] and everybody’s rooting for her. If you say something back, you’ll look like you’re hating,” she defined to hosts Charlamagne Tha God and Loren Lorosa. But the road she couldn’t ignore got here when BIA allegedly talked about her kids. “When my kids grow up one day and they see that, they’re going to ask me, ‘So what you said, what you did?’ I’m not going to tell my kids I took the high road,” Cardi insisted. “I’m like, you see how I violated it?”

The observe itself left little to the creativeness. Over pounding manufacturing by DJ SwanQo and Sean Island, Cardi unloaded a sequence of sharp jabs, mocking the “WHOLE LOTTA MONEY” artist’s profession milestones and calling out what she views as private slights. “Name five BIA songs, gun pointin’ to your head, bow, I’m dead,” she rapped earlier than persevering with with “Do she even got a BET award?”

The rapper additionally revealed behind-the-scenes stress that fueled her determination. According to Cardi, BIA unfold false rumors about her constancy throughout her marriage to Offset. “You was really trying to even mess things up in my home,” she stated, including that she needed to “get to the bottom” of who was spreading these lies. “I know it was confirmed it was her,” Cardi continued, citing lyrics in BIA’s diss observe “SUE MEEE?” that hinted at dishonest allegations.

Ultimately, “Pretty & Petty” grew to become Cardi’s likelihood to reclaim the narrative on her personal phrases. “I told you, b**ch, I was gon’ reply on my time,” she rapped within the outro. As she summed it as much as “The Breakfast Club,” “You thought it was cute to put my kid’s name [out there]. I’m going to get you, and I did it the right way.”