This week, Cardi B, 31, took to X to clap back at people who criticize the way she speaks.
The “WAP” rapper has been vocal in the past about staying true to herself, calling it the secret to her success. “A lot of people always talking about how I talk… I have a very deep accent, and I started feeling real insecure about it,” she once told Reebok. “But it’s like, ‘Nah, forget it.’ I gotta be real with myself all the time. That’s what I gotta do to stay me.”
I be cute so I pose for a pic 💚 💋 pic.twitter.com/J8TFh4eK3r
Now, the New York-born, Dominican-Trinidadian star shows her stance hasn’t changed. As she put it to fans this week: “I will never change the way I talk.”
The rapper responded to a fan on X who wondered, “At what point does making fun of Cardi B’s speech patterns become racist[?]” Cardi B replied, “[Aw] thanks for defending me. F**k them.”
“I will never change the way I talk… I became famous from that just being myself,” she continued. “Then I started making music and became a millionaire out of it.” Later, Cardi B added a gem that’s ingrained in our brains now: “This is a multimillion dollar accent [baby] OKKKKRRR.” Did she lie, though?
Awwwww thanks for defending me 🥺
FCK THEM
I will never change the way I talk… I became famous from that just being myself! Then I started making music and became a millionaire out of it.. THIS IS A MULTIMILLION DOLLAR ACCENT BABBYY OKKKKRRR 💁♀️ https://t.co/jpezWMBCg0
In April, Cardi B also aired her thoughts on people who have “talked sh*t about [her] accent” since she became famous. In a heated X exchange with influencer Raymonte, she wrote, “When I became famous people said I’m ghetto, talked s**t about my accent, call me dumb because the way I speak.”
The rapper explained her disappointment at people who criticize the way she speaks because of where she grew up. “To this day, no matter what I accomplished, I still get called a stripper all because I’m from the ghetto,” she described. “People misinterpret me because apparently I’m loud and ghetto to this day.”
It’s crazy because when I became famous people said I’m ghetto, talked shit about my accent, call me dumb because the way I speak, say I got no couth, talk about my teeth , my braids, my two buns… and to this day no matter what I accomplished I still get called a stripper all… https://t.co/m2LJm5v2QM
That exchange, as well as Cardi B’s recent clap back, may intersect with some people’s viewpoints on the rapper’s Latinidad. During her conversation with Raymonte, Cardi B said that he called her “a Mexican” in private messages. Later, she clarified that she just wanted people to get her nationality right. “You’re not going to keep erasing my nationality,” the rapper replied in a video. “Yeah I’m going to say something about it, because that’s not my nationality. That’s not what I am.”
Now, recent controversy over her “speech patterns” or accent may stem from her South Bronx upbringing and Dominican-Trinidadian heritage.
As one X user put it, “Cardi is genuinely one of the smartest celebrities in my opinion, but ya’ll dismiss everything she says [because] of her accent [and] delivery.”
i think this all the time lol. cardi is genuinely one of the smartest celebrities in my opinion, but y’all dismiss everything she says bc of her accent/delivery https://t.co/gOtaYoeHdn
Another X user says Cardi B’s accent “sounds like home” to them, noting, “It’s actually so Highbridge, South Bronx neighborhood] it’s not even funny.”
Yes Cardi that accent sounds like home 🫶🏾 it’s actually so HB it’s not even funny 😂😂 whoever make fun of your accent can suck a fat one https://t.co/MayRjPOAix
And now that we’re talking accents, here’s a snippet of Cardi B’s Dominican accent in Spanish:
Cardi B speaking Spanish
“Love Her Dominican🇩🇴 accent😍” pic.twitter.com/p0nn2lgKiw
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