If you haven’t learned by now, here’s a remind: when you come for Cardi B get ready for her to come back at your twice as hard.
Case in point: Tiger King alum Carole Baskin. Last week, the Big Cat Rescue boss dissed the video for Cardi’s collab with Megan Thee Stallion, “WAP,” telling Billboard that the rappers’ use of big cats as “props” in the clip could be bad for the animals because it might “glamorize” the idea of keeping them as pets.
“My guess is that most people won’t even see the Photoshopped cats in the scenes because the rest of it is so lurid,” said Baskin in a statement to Billboard. “I was happy to see that it does appear to all be Photoshopped. It didn’t look like the cats were really in the rooms with the singers. In fact, probably most of the rooms were Photoshopped in via green screen.”
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Well, in a new interview with i-D magazine, Cardi bites back. “I’m not gonna engage with Carole Baskin on that. Like, that’s just ridiculous, you know? Oh, Lord,” Cardi said when asked to respond to Baskin’s claims. “Like, girl you killed your goddamn husband,” she added, pouring gas on the fire lit in the massively popular Netflix series that implied Baskin may have had a hand in the mysterious death of her late husband, Don Lewis, who went missing in 1997 and has never been found.
Cardi is also not really worried about the people — looking at you Ben Shapiro — who’ve taken her to task for the saltiness of the “WAP” video and lyrics. “I always encourage people to be confident, especially when it comes to your sexuality,” she told the magazine. “Some of these men are uncomfortable, they’re not even comfortable being sensual. Maybe you’re conservative, but everybody got a little freak inside them, you know? Every single person. Everybody gets horny, everybody gets a little tingle down there, you know what I’m saying. Just embrace it. Don’t be scared about it.”
Watch “WAP” below.