You know how women in hip-hop keep telling us that all the supposed beef between them is all in fans’ heads?
Cardi B and Ice Spice just proved it.
I think there might be some confusion on what was said. I asked why he feels so comfortable calling me Mexican? I have no Mexican parents. My mom is Trini.. she came out of a whole black woman. My father is Dominican…I’m Dominican just like you. I also used other Dominicans as… https://t.co/p55fhPssMK
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) April 3, 2024
The above picture was taken at Vanity Fair‘s annual Oscars party this year. Ice Spice sent it to Cardi on Twitter after Cardi asked if she could see it while engaged in an intense discussion of race with an influencer, Raymonte Cole (it’s a long story).
After Cardi and Raymonte referenced Ice Spice, the “Think U The Sh*t” rapper popped up herself to offer a correction. Not appearing to take offense in the slightest, Cardi politely requested, “Can you send me that pic you took of me wit ya camera from vanity fair? Thank youuu.” Ice obliged, and with that, hopefully ended about a year’s worth of utterly nonsensical rage-farming, Twitter trolling, and Stan war flame-fanning that has honestly been tired since before anyone even know who Ice Spice was.
Same reason why you felt comfortable calling me a Mexican when I’m Dominican and I asked you why you feel comfortable calling me a Mexican when ice and jharell Jerome Zoe Saldana are Dominicans and you don’t do that to them. You do it to me because you know that’s what people use… https://t.co/sXHJJV7i4u
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) April 3, 2024
no offense bardi its cus i have a dominican parent & a black one
https://t.co/T5DaRCxzU9
— ice spice ☆ (@icespicee_) April 3, 2024
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) April 3, 2024
Of course, the primary drivers behind the discourse discord, the Barbz, are losing their sh*t, but at this point, I would hope we have all learned they deserve precisely none of our collective attention, especially because that’s all they seem to want. Y’all can, like, join a bowling league or something. Of course, some fans are STILL trying to frame the whole exchange in antagonistic terms but I guess life is either really messy or really boring over there.
Let me go remove the few good tracks you have from my library. https://t.co/Sa3aX4nJaq pic.twitter.com/DKQEVMlvUM
— Queen Radio (@QueenRadioX) April 3, 2024
.@NICKIMINAJ pic.twitter.com/pINRMmsBlS https://t.co/yOnRjb8dci
— nza (@slowslumbers02) April 3, 2024
nicki is about to snort the biggest line of coke https://t.co/XMBDcXR49u
— John’s ALL UP IN YOUR MIND 𐚁 (@Johnsallupi) April 3, 2024
the barbz about to cry and nicki about to go on a coke rant https://t.co/9rQW4APEm7 pic.twitter.com/41pgdqS3nG
— Sulli
𐚁, PhD (@idrinkwine818) April 3, 2024
Anyway, now that Ice Spice has apparently been in direct proximity with both Cardi B and Latto without violence, perhaps my dream of a “girl rap” Avengers carrying Joe Budden directly to the dumpster his podcast takes belong in is one step closer.