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Cardi B has shared her honest feelings about her long-running beef with Nicki Minaj during a heated spat with the Barbz.
The drama began on Thursday (October 3) when the Bronx rap star posted a meme of Whitney Houston on X (formerly Twitter), seemingly in response to claims that she cheated on her estranged husband Offset with an NFL player.
In the brief clip, from Houston’s 2002 interview with ABC’s Diane Sawyer, the late singer asks the broadcast journalist: “But do you really know? Do you really know?”
An user named @barbieemaffia took issue with the post and implied that Cardi was copying Nicki Minaj, who has long been a devoted fan of Whitney Houston.
“Oh now she wanna post Whitney memes? [crying face emoji],” they wrote.
The “Bodak Yellow” hitmaker swiftly clapped back with proof that she has posted Whitney Houston memes in the past, digging up a screenshot of a post from three years ago.
“You sure bout that?? Now go see if bitches was posting this meme before that date,” she wrote.
Cardi was then accused by another Nicki fan of using the Young Money rapper to “stay relevant,” with the user also ridiculing the mother of three over her relationship troubles with Offset.
In response, Bardi claimed that she has long moved on from her feud with Nicki Minaj and has no interest of reigniting it: “Bitch that beef so stale and dry and do nothing for me …..as fans stop harassing people over dumb shit if y’all don’t want a fuckin respond ….yall all over my quotes over a meme that ain’t had shit to do wit yall.”
The claims at the heart of the back-and-forth were made earlier this week by Akademiks on his Rumble channel.
The controversial media personality said that the former Migos rapper caught his estranged wife with an NFL player, although he didn’t say who.
Akademiks did, however, suggest that the player in question was a wide receiver as he referenced him catching a touchdown.
His comments came after Offset accused Cardi of sleeping with another man while she was pregnant with their third child.
The row started when the “Ric Flair Drip” rapper hopped on Cardi’s Instagram Live and commented: “U fucked with a baby inside tell the truth!!”
The Bronx bombshell did not deny the claims, revealing she began talking to other men in June, weeks before she filed for divorce and roughly three months before she gave birth to their third child.
Cardi also leaked text messages between her and Offset in which he asked her if she “wants him,” to which she replied “no.”
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David Lee Roth made an unexpected appearance at the Stagecoach Festival on Saturday evening, stepping onto the stage with Teddy Swims to perform “Jump,” the iconic 1984 hit by Van Halen.
During his Stagecoach set, Swims welcomed Roth after running through his recent single “Mr. Know It All” along with “Some Things I’ll Never Know,” both taken from his debut studio album I’ve Tried Everything But Therapy (Part 1), which arrived in September 2023.
This moment marked the third straight festival where the two have shared the stage. Swims previously invited Roth out during recent sets at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival, where he introduced him as “David Lee Roth from the best band of all time, Van Halen,” before they kicked into “Jump” together.
The latest performance unfolded during a chaotic night at Stagecoach, as strong winds earlier in the evening led to a temporary evacuation of the grounds and forced several changes to the schedule, including removing artists such as Journey and Riley Green from the lineup.
The evacuation came after powerful gusts swept through the Empire Polo Club in Indio, California, the site of the festival. An “emergency evacuation” notice appeared on screens across the venue, urging attendees to “move quickly and calmly to the nearest exit,” while alerts sent through the festival’s official app instructed people to clear the area.
The interruption impacted several stages, with the Mane Stage sitting between sets when the evacuation alert was issued. Wind conditions had been intensifying throughout the day, with stronger gusts arriving in the evening as part of a regional wind advisory.
Even with the disruption, Swims’ set ultimately continued, and Roth’s surprise appearance stood out as one of the biggest highlights of the night as fans returned once the festival resumed.
Stagecoach, one of the largest country music festivals in the United States, takes place every year at the same location as the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival and regularly draws tens of thousands of fans.
