Cardi Bis firing back atJermaine Dupriafter the record producer slammed today’s female hip hop stars as “strippers rapping.”
During an appearance onPEOPLE Now, Dupri, 46, shared his opinion on women in the industry, explainingDa Bratpaved the way for them to “sell a lot of records.”
“Brat was the first female artist to go platinum, so we together broke the mold… and since then female rappers have been able to sustain and sell a lot of records, more records than guys, but before Brat that wasn’t happening,” he said.
When asked how he feels about Cardi,Nicki Minajand rising starMeghan Thee Stallion, Dupri didn’t appear to be impressed.
“I can’t really say. I feel they’re all rapping about the same thing. I don’t think they’re showing us who’s the best rapper. For me, it’s like strippers rapping and as far as rap goes I’m not getting who’s the best.”
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Dupri said he feels that “at some point” female rappers are going to have to talk about “other things.”
“First of all, I rap about my p— because she’s my best friend and second of all it’s because it seems like that’s what people want to hear,” Cardi continued.
WATCH: Jermaine Dupri Believes Da Brat ‘Broke the Mold’ for Female Rappers
She went on to explain that whenever she did put out a song that wasn’t sexual, her fans weren’t receptive to it.
“When I did ‘Be Careful‘ people was talking mad s— in the beginning like ‘What the f— is this?’ ‘This is not what I was expecting,'” Cardi said of her song, which she raps about getting her heart broken.
Jermaine Dupri and Da Brat.
“It’s like if that’s what people ain’t trying to hear then I’m going to start rapping about my p— again,” she said.
Cardi then explained that there are a lot of “female rappers who rap their asses off who don’t talk about their p— and y’all don’t support them. So don’t blame that on us when y’all not the ones who are supporting them.”
Cardifollowed up with a second video, in which she listed a number of female rappers, including Rapsody, Tierra Whack, Oranicuhh and Kamaiyah, who don’t talk about their “vajayjays.” She explained she feels they don’t get the recognition they deserve.
“I feel we need to put these girls in more magazines and blogs. Radio DJs play these girls,” Cardi said.
Megan Thee Stallion, Tierra Whack, Kamaiyah.Presley Ann/Getty; Jon Kopaloff/Getty;
“These girls can rap they asses off and they don’t rap about their vaginas and sucking d—.”
A rep for Dupri did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
Aside from being a rapper herself, Cardi has been vocal about being a stripper.
In the April 2018 issue ofCosmopolitan, the rapper addressed why she’s open to speakingabout her pole-dancing days: ‘People say, ‘Why do you always got to say that you used to be a stripper? We get it.’ Because y’all don’t respect me because of it, and y’all going to respect these strippers from now on… Just because somebody was a stripper don’t mean they don’t have no brain.”
source: people.com
