Cardi B declared she’s contemplating leaving America completely after Vice President JD Vance publicly sided together with her rival Nicki Minaj of their ongoing feud.

The Bronx rapper made the beautiful announcement throughout an Instagram Live session from Saudi Arabia, the place she’s performing on the Soundstorm Festival in Riyadh this weekend. Her feedback got here simply days after Vance tweeted “Nicki > Cardi” in response to a now-deleted submit from Minaj that appeared to reward the Vice President.

Vance’s tweet marked an unprecedented second the place America’s second-highest elected official inserted himself into Hip-Hop’s most contentious rivalry. The Vice President was responding to Minaj’s deleted submit, which reportedly learn “Vance > Rants,” indicating her rising assist for the Trump administration.

Vance’s public endorsement of Minaj over Cardi represents a pointy escalation within the rappers’ feud, now involving the White House in Hip-Hop beef.

“I’m starting not to like America,” Cardi B stated throughout her dwell stream. “America makes me pay taxes. The Vice President is talking s### about me on Twitter. I don’t feel real appreciated in America. Y’all need to convince me to come back.”

Cardi praised Saudi Arabia’s strict authorized system throughout her broadcast.

“I’m in Saudi Arabia and, so far, let me tell you about my experience. It’s very strict. They will put you under the jail,” she defined. “They ain’t playing around. You will go to prison. Mess around and you’ll find out. However, it’s very easy to follow the rules here.”

Saudi Arabia maintains a number of the world’s harshest penalties for varied offenses.

The kingdom enforces strict public decency legal guidelines with fines as much as 6,000 Saudi riyals for indecent habits and a pair of,000 riyals for unauthorized images. More critical crimes may end up in imprisonment, flogging, and even execution.

Despite these strict legal guidelines, Saudi Arabia has been aggressively courting younger folks and worldwide artists as a part of Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman’s Vision 2030 initiative. The kingdom has invested billions in leisure infrastructure, internet hosting main music festivals, comedy reveals, and sporting occasions to diversify its financial system away from oil.

Cardi is in Saudi Arabia to headline the three-day Soundstorm Festival, which runs December 11-13 in Riyadh.

The occasion options over 200 artists, together with Post Malone, Calvin Harris, and Swedish House Mafia, representing the dominion’s push to grow to be a worldwide leisure vacation spot.

“The people over here is hip, honey,” Cardi said about her Saudi experience. “They are very polite. They don’t look at you like you’re poor.” She notably praised the procuring and eating experiences, saying, “I like everything duty-free, tax-free, discount-free.”

The kingdom’s leisure increase has reworked Saudi society, with younger Saudis now attending mixed-gender concert events and festivals that had been unthinkable only a few years in the past.

However, this cultural opening exists alongside continued political repression and strict social controls.

The rapper joked about following Saudi guidelines throughout a Wednesday Instagram Live session, saying “I don’t like cigarettes. I don’t like weed. I don’t like hookah. I don’t like nothing. I don’t like any of that stuff. I don’t like nothing.”

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