Cardi B Says Her ‘Mother Warrior’ Came Out Amid Nicki Minaj Beef

Cardi B isn’t the one to play with when it comes to her music, and especially when it comes to her kids.

In a new Paper Magazine interview, the Bronx rapper reflects on her recent online back-and-forth with Nicki Minaj, which escalated into a week-long exchange on X involving personal jabs and family drama. While she never mentions Minaj by name, the timing of the interview, seemingly directly after the feud, makes the reference hard to miss.

“Definitely this week, my mother warrior came out. I was fighting for my kids," she told Paper. “This week I showed the world that I will get the most nasty about mine, and it was, it felt so weird, because I never had to get that nasty for my kids. But I did, and I really feel like a lioness.”

The tension between the two rappers reignited a couple of weeks ago when they began trading insults about album sales. That quickly spiraled into nasty remarks about their children as well.

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“This has been one of the moments I got tested the most about being a parent,” Cardi continued. “But it just goes to show me how strong I am, and it just goes to show me that it's like, damn, I will really take it to hell for mines: mentally, physically, anything. And I wouldn't care.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Cardi also discusses her new album, Am I the Drama?, which has stirred controversy for its pointed lyrics. On the track “Magnet,” she seemingly takes aim at City Girls’ JT, while other songs revisit her year-old beef with BIA.

“It's like, Oh, you thought, you thought that I was ignoring you because I was being a good person and a goody goody,” Cardi said. “I was ignoring you until I couldn't take it anymore, and I had to show you that I am not the fucking one. And let me tell you something. When a girl is being funny towards me, when it comes to music, when it comes to anything, I will respond to you when I feel like it. I feel like people just be thinking that you supposed to get up and just run and write."

She continued.: “Bitch, you don't move me. You don't move my thoughts, and you don't move my fucking day. Think I'm just gonna run to the studio to reply to a nobody? No, I'm gonna do it on my time and when it benefits me and how I like to, that's what ‘Magnet’ is about. Now everybody mad at ’Magnet.’ Why would you think that I'm the one to be fucked with?”

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