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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.”
Perry Farrell has released another public apology following an on-stage confrontation involving his bandmate Dave Navarro.
The Jane's Addiction frontman was involved in a physical altercation with guitarist Dave Navarro last year during a live performance, an incident that prompted the band to cancel their reunion tour and eventually led to their split.
“I'd like to address what happened on stage last year,” Perry, 66, said in a statement shared across both his personal Instagram account and Jane's Addiction’s official page. “I've reflected on it and know I didn't handle myself the way I should have. I apologize to our patrons and my bandmates for losing my temper and for disrupting the show.”
He went on to admit that he did not meet fan expectations and described himself as deeply remorseful toward everyone impacted by the incident.
“Jane's Addiction has been at the center of my life for decades. The band, the songs, the patrons, and the impact that we've had on music and culture mean more to me than any words I could ever possibly write down,” he shared.
“My aim has always been to give our audience the best possible show, something real, honest and positive. In Boston, we fell short of that, and I'm truly sorry to everyone who was impacted.”
Jane's Addiction also issued its own statement regarding the altercation, which ultimately led to the group’s remaining members filing a lawsuit against Perry alleging assault, battery, intentional infliction of emotional distress, negligence, breach of fiduciary duty, and breach of contract.
“Today we are here to announce that we have come together one last time to resolve our differences, so that the legacy of Jane's Addiction will remain the work the four of us created together,” the band wrote, signaling that the group would not move forward with Perry. “We now look forward to the future as we embark on our separate musical and creative endeavors.”
