Cardi B discussed how her success has opened the door for other female rappers in a recent interview, but wants to clarify she never claimed to be a trailblazer.
In a recent appearance on “Rap Radar” alongside T.I. to discuss their new Netflix rap competition series “Rhythm + Flow”, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper shared her thoughts on how her musical achievements have encouraged labels to be more open to signing female rappers.
“I feel like, after me, I’ll say that it’s kinda easier for a lot of these female artists,” she explained. “Like before me, there was no female rapper that was signed to a label, well, you know the ones that had already been established. Nobody was signing them. And now, everybody’s just signing them if you could rap and you got a couple of followers because nobody want to miss the opportunity. Like, a lot of labels missed the opportunity with me because I went to a couple of motherf**kers and they said, ‘no, no, no, no.’”
T.I. agreed: “I think she kind of kicked the doors down with being personable. Most women when they came out were extremely mysterious, you hardly heard them talk… You heard them in interviews but never really speaking in a discussion. You feel like you get more a sense of [Cardi’s] personality when she presented herself.”
On Tuesday, Cardi took to Twitter to clarify her comments, insisting she never said that she “pave[d] the way for female rappers but I deff gave the hood and women hope,” adding, “Labels [were] not signing female rappers and putting them in a shelf and not focusing on them.”
She continued to share her views in a series of subsequent tweets, pointing out that she felt it had previously been “impossible for it to be more than one female rapper.”
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She added: “And ya can deny it as much as ya want and say I’m crazy or stfuu but how many female rappers before me where getting chances or getting pushed? They wasn’t believing and now they are!”
