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Cardi B Calls Out Joe Budden For Criticism Regarding Her Album

The Bronx rapper shared her frustration with Budden on X (formerly Twitter) Spaces.

Cardi B is fed up with Joe Budden.

On Thursday (July 18), the Bronx rapper took to X Spaces (formerly known as Twitter Spaces) to share her frustrations with all the criticism she’s been receiving from Budden about her highly anticipated album.

“Joe Budden is obsessed [with] criticizing me up and down,” Cardi said. “S**t is really getting me frustrated because it's like, bro, leave me the f**k alone…I don't understand this about Joe Budden, right? First, you always talking about you got a source from Atlantic [Records] that be telling you about my album, and that's a f**king lie. First things first, you said that if Atlantic don't drop my album, they going to f**king drop it for me.” 

She continued, “They can't do that…I do not send my music to nobody. There's only two people that have possessions of my music, and that's me and my engineer. Nobody that personally work with me. I have a manager… He don't have none of my music.” 

The “WAP” hitmaker added that whenever she has meetings, there are no more than five people in the room so it’s impossible to get information out of her team. “Every single f**king five, six months, you comparing another female rapper towards me. You compare new artists, you compare old artists. You compare every single f**king artist [to] me, bro. If you love these b**ches so much, why you not talking about their album? Why you not talking about what they do? You compare females to me, that my worst records beat their best records all the time,” she said. 

She said if Budden wanted to listen to the album, he would have attempted to come to one of her studio sessions. “You really sat up here in December [when] I was really going through it with my husband. It was a real, real tough time with me and my n**ga,” Cardi continued. “You really sat here and said that I use my s**t with my husband for publicity because of another b**ch? You think I have a baby daddy or boyfriend? I'm in a marriage, n**ga. I'm in a marriage. Everything [I] do, whether it's my personal life or whether it's my music life, you always talking s**t about it… You're not thirsty for my album. You thirsty to criticize it. You thirsty to kick it down…You never compliment me. When's the last time you compliment me? You were so thirsty to f**king interview a b**ch You call it interesting. A b**ch that almost f**king made me go to suicide in 2019.”

Budden joined the X Spaces and took to his X account with a few responses. “I promise you and can assure you, I will not cover a single thing this girl does for the remainder of her career… Peace [and] love,” he wrote. “I really just wanted an album from someone whose music I love.”

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