Cardi B gets in a messy fight with gossip site “The Shade Room”
Cardi B has found herself the center of an online battle with gossip site The Shade Room.
The rapper criticized the gossip website for publishing a video of Cardi B’s baby, Kulture, which sparked a public argument.
Following her father’s first posting of the videos on his own Instagram stories in honor of the child’s fourth birthday this weekend, the outlet was able to secure the footage of Kulture holding a stack of cash, according to Newsweek.
Many admirers observed the conflict as it played out in real-time as Cardi ripped the publication online, despite the fact that the majority of the complicated exchange has been deleted.
Before the dispute erupted, Cardi was in the U.K. performing at the Wireless Festival when she asked the publication to remove the post in the comments section.
Cardi claimed in a number of the since-deleted tweets that The Shade Room solely published negative news about her and prevented her from leaving comments on its articles or contacting it directly.
The outspoken rapper expressed what seemed to be her repressed emotions in the publication’s earlier posts on Twitter.
“Cause my thing is… okay you only post negative content bout me, cool no biggie. got me blocked from commenting on their page ok cool,” Cardi said in a since-deleted tweet. “but please don’t post my child on yall funny ish …I don’t want to be old self but just leave me alone.”
After asserting that the outlet will “only post negative content” about her, TSR reportedly responded by pointing to previous posts it argued were examples of positive coverage.
“So now you guys want to gaslight me,” Cardi said in a follow-up video, seen below. “And if you guys are not doing shady shit on purpose, why mute me from commenting? And then, you guys post certain things—certain things—positive about me so y’all can continuously post negative things about me that you don’t do to other artists.”
“What’s the phone number of the lawyer you used in your defamation case because we tryna see something,” the site responded, referencing Cardi’s recent $4 million court ruling against blogger Tasha K. “Is this the ‘only negative’ content you are referring to?”
Cardi admitted that after seeing some negative remarks made about her daughter by fans, she attempted to leave a comment on the post about Kulture asking TSR to take down the video.
She claimed she was blocked from commenting on TSR’s posts when she attempted to urge that the video be taken down and that this was done on purpose.
“I DM’d you guys but, of course, you guys ignore me, and that’s why I had to take it publicly,” she said. “Clearly, you guys have me muted from commenting on your page. That’s why when I comment, nobody can see my comment and I actually have screenshots of it, and that’s why I posted it. So now you guys want to gaslight me. And if you guys are not doing shady s–t on purpose, why mute me from commenting? Then you guys post certain things positive about me so y’all can continuously post negative things about me that you don’t do to other artists.”
After further calling out the site, Cardi posted an emotional message asking TSR to “take it easy” on her.
“I’m a person and I have feelings. I’m not a crazy person, I’m not this ghetto person, I’m not this person that’s trying to make narratives about me,” she said. “You guys clearly know what you’re doing; if you wasn’t, you wouldn’t have muted me. But my thing is, take it easy on me. I’m a person as well and I’m trying to protect my best, my mental health. It’s too much. We could’ve had this conversation on DM, but clearly you guys are ignoring me so now we have to I guess do it like this.”
The Shade Room reportedly claimed Cardi had recently ordered them to post about her family during a phone call, despite denying that they had ever restricted her Instagram comments.
Both parties decided to have their chat off the record after engaging in a public back and forth.
“You know what, let’s handle this like adults,” Cardi tweeted on Sunday night, suggesting a phone call to resolve their issues, to which TSR obliged.
After speaking with the artist, the two parties made up, the publication tweeted on Monday.
“Just spoke to @iamcardib and we were able to come to a resolution,” TSR told its followers on its official Twitter account. “We’re putting the issue to rest and moving on. Cardi, we wish you the best and continued success. Glad we found a way to move forward peacefully. What happened earlier was bad, but how it ended is good.”
All of the tweets from the public argument have been deleted by both Cardi and The Shade Room.