Cardi B disses BIA on the song “Pretty & Petty” off her new album, “Am I The Drama?”
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Cardi B is taking shots stronger than Don Julio at another female rapper on her new album “Am I The Drama?”
Throughout the highly anticipated sophomore album, which comes seven years after Cardi B’s debut project, “Invasion of Privacy,” the Bronx, New York, native touches on her fiery relationship with her estranged husband, rapper Offset, claps back at naysayers and unapologetically addresses her rivals.
Since the album’s release at midnight on Friday, Sept. 19, the internet has been buzzing about Cardi B’s diss toward fellow rapper BIA amid their ongoing beef on her 13th track, “Pretty & Petty.”
Cardi B took digs at the beginning of her initial verse on the song, saying, “Name five Bia songs, gun pointing to your head/ Bow! I’m dead/ That melatonin flow putting us to bed/ I’m doing you a favor, Epic, run me my bread.”
She continued, “Pop (expletive) and buy bags, only thing that I do/ Everytime I pray I thank God I’m not you/ I rather die on the surgery table before I got to walk around here looking like you/ You want to be with me, you sure? Do she even have a BET Award?”
Who is BIA?
Hailing from Medford, Massachusetts, BIA is a rapper signed to Epic Records, and is best known for her song “Whole Lotta Money,” which has a remix featuring rap giant Nicki Minaj, and “London” featuring Grammy-winning emcee J Cole.
The Puerto Rican and Italian-American rapper is a former reality star who gained mainstream attention following her features on J Balvin’s “Safari” in 2016 and Russ’s “Best on Earth” in 2019.
Cardi B pokes fun at BIA being from Massachusetts on the diss song, saying, “You from Boston? Let’s have a little tea party/ Why you got kicked out of that condo? Why you be online and be lying though?”
Cardi continued to take jabs on the three-minute song: “Why you all on people’s face with that (expletive) mouth? / Diarrhea BIA, breath so stank/ You can smell her before you see her.”
USA TODAY reached out to BIA’s reps on Friday, Sept. 19, but has not received a response.
What sparked the beef between Cardi B and BIA?
The beef traces back to when Cardi released a song called “Like What (Freestyle)” in 2024, where she sampled Missy Elliot’s smash hit “She’s a (Expletive).” The track came after BIA sampled the same record in her song, “I’M THAT (Expletive)” with Timbaland the year before.
According to HipHop DX and Complex, fans online began likening Cardi’s song and videos to BIA’s work, which prompted shady online posts and tweets between the two rappers.
The exchange later escalated from online remarks to raps when BIA appeared to drop subliminals at Cardi B on a song with musician Dreezy in April 2024, poking fun at her opponent’s lyrical capabilities: “How you say you runnin’ down but you can’t walk on the beat?”
A month later, Cardi B responded on GloRilla’s song, “Wanna Be (Remix),” which also features Megan Thee Stallion. In Cardi B’s verse, she plays off of BIA’s name, saying “Nobody wanna be ya,” and accuses her of deleting tweets.
BIA responded and previewed a diss song on social media, where she accused Cardi B of cheating on Offset, criticized her working with writers and ridiculed her appearance.
BIA even made a slight remark in the song about Cardi B by mentioning the name of one of her children, Kulture: “All that surgery and how your body looks so mid / Thought that (expletive) was for the culture, you trying to ride the wave/ You should be home with your kids ’cause (expletive), you speak like second grade.”
Cardi B is a mother of three children: Kulture, Wave, and Blossom. She recently announced that she is having a fourth child with her NFL boyfriend, Stefon Diggs.
BIA’s diss track came amid Cardi B saying that she’d sue the rapper for spreading cheating rumors online. Cardi B addressed the situation in a lengthy Instagram Live back in June 2024.
Cardi B addresses diss on ‘The Breakfast Club’ radio show
During an interview on “The Breakfast Club,” that aired on Friday, Sept. 19, Cardi B said that she dedicated a whole track to BIA for bringing her family into their dispute.
“You mentioned my kids trying to be cute,” Cardi said, referring to BIA, also calling her diss “trash.”
Cardi B also explained that she talked with BIA before the feud began: “She thought I was copying her, and I was like, ‘Listen, I’m not copying you. I don’t even look at you. You’re not a person that I look at or I’m inspired by.’ And the conversation ended,” Cardi explained on the radio program.
“Then she kept going because of a music video, and it was like ‘Oh, girl, you’re definitely not on the mood board,'” the rapper continued.
Contributing: Cydney Henderson, USA TODAY
Taylor Ardrey is a news reporter for USA TODAY. You can reach her at tardrey@gannett.com.