{"id":357746,"date":"2025-12-19T08:57:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357746\/"},"modified":"2025-12-19T08:57:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-19T08:57:08","slug":"cardi-b-praises-saudi-arabia-for-not-being-like-ghetto-america-by-displaying-a-clean-lifestyle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/357746\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B praises Saudi Arabia for not being like &#8216;ghetto&#8217; America by displaying a clean lifestyle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Rapper Cardi B praised life in Saudi Arabia, saying it is much \u201ccleaner,\u201d albeit more authoritarian in the Middle Eastern country.<\/p>\n<p>Cardi B was the latest of many famous American performers to entertain audiences overseas in Saudi Arabia, a choice\u00a0many celebrities took heat for\u00a0earlier this year.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m in Saudi Arabia and, so far, let me tell y\u2019all about my experience. It\u2019s very strict out here. They will put you under the jail,\u201d she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/a\/treyalston\/cardi-b-suggests-shed-rather-live-in-saudi-arabia-than-in-the-united-states\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">said while staying in the country.<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey ain\u2019t playing around. Yeah, you will go to prison. Yeah, yeah, mess around and you\u2019ll find out. However, it is very easy to follow the rules here. Like, the rules are very simple.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Cardi B noted numerous times that\u00a0Saudi Arabia\u00a0is bright and clean. <\/p>\n<p>She noted that she was initially hesitant to visit the country because of \u201crestrictions on, like, women and gays and everything\u201d but said the country has opened up more since then.<\/p>\n<p>While Saudi Arabia has made certain reforms, like allowing women to drive, starting in 2018, it still maintains certain rules, such as forbidding people from openly wearing crucifixes. <\/p>\n<p>The Saudi government also continues to face international criticism over the 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi.<\/p>\n<p>The rapper said she views America as a nation in decline.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m starting not to like America. America makes me pay taxes. The vice president is\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/entertainment\/news\/cardi-b-responds-to-jd-vance-jumping-into-rap-feud\/ar-AA1Sb2E0\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">talking s\u2014 about me on Twitter.<\/a>\u00a0I don\u2019t feel real appreciated in America. Y\u2019all need to convince me to come back,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37968857\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/homeless-people-rest-macarthur-park-116817812.jpg\" alt=\"Homeless people resting at MacArthur Park in Los Angeles, California.\" class=\"wp-image-37968857\"  \/>Rapper Cardi B praised life in Saudi Arabia, as she says it is much \u201ccleaner\u201d living there compared to the United States. Ringo Chiu for NY Post<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy would I? Look at this country. Look how they treat me.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s ghetto over there,\u201d she added of America.<\/p>\n<p>When the time of the stream reached 11:11 p.m., she appeared as if she were about to do the sign of the cross and make a wish, before she stopped herself.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI don\u2019t even want to do the \u2026 you know what I\u2019m saying? It\u2019s illegal over here, honey. You can only believe in Allah over here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" style=\"aspect-ratio:0.79980469;display:block\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"37968856\" width=\"472\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/cardi-b-performs-2025-112313499.jpg\" alt=\"Cardi B performing during the 2025 Global Citizen Festival.\" class=\"wp-image-37968856\"  \/>While in the Middle East, the rapper said the country is much stricter compared to back home, saying, \u201cThey will put you under the jail.\u201d Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCan\u2019t wear no crosses or nothing,\u201d she said of the country. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey don\u2019t be playing over here. But you know what I\u2019m saying? Like, it\u2019s like you just got to have respect. That\u2019s the thing. Americans don\u2019t be respecting other people\u2019s stuff.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>She went on to say that America has declined both in\u00a0common manners and cleanliness,\u00a0particularly when it comes to allowing homelessness in public spaces.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerica just got no courtesy. We ghetto. We just dusty. I\u2019m sorry to say,\u201d she said. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd I\u2019m an American myself, honey, but goddamn. And this country is so clean. I haven\u2019t even\u00a0seen a bum.\u00a0I don\u2019t think there\u2019s bums here.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\tStart your day with all you need to know\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p class=\"inline-module__cta\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\tMorning Report delivers the latest news, videos, photos and more.\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tThanks for signing up!\n\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Fox News Digital reached out to representatives of Cardi B for comment. \u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Later,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamcardib\/status\/2000256761979384280\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">she posted a video,<\/a>\u00a0\u201cComing back to America from Saudi Arabia and realizing this what I\u2019m coming home to,\u201d with her looking distressed because there was audio of loudly crying babies and a woman speaking in a foreign language.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Rapper Cardi B praised life in Saudi Arabia, saying it is much \u201ccleaner,\u201d albeit more authoritarian in the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":357747,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[28295,236,88,10815,129,131,21,9282],"class_list":{"0":"post-357746","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-celebrities","8":"tag-cardi-b","9":"tag-celebrities","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-media","12":"tag-middle-east","13":"tag-saudi-arabia","14":"tag-united-states","15":"tag-x-formerly-twitter"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357746","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=357746"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357746\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/357747"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=357746"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=357746"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=357746"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}