Bia Addresses Cardi B’s “Pretty & Petty” Diss, Says a Response Is ‘Beneath’ Her

Bia is breaking her silence about her beef with Cardi B.

The rapper recently spoke with Nessa of Hot 97 ahead of the release of her new album Bianca to discuss how her feud with Cardi unfolded and address being dissed on her song “Pretty & Petty.”

Bia says she did not have Cardi B in mind when recording her new album, Bianca.

“Why would I? I don’t care about anybody that much to get up and dedicate my life to like, ‘Oh, let me get at her.’ Like, no way, bro, that’s crazy,” she admitted near the 16-minute mark in the video linked above.

Bia revealed that she had “moments” in the studio where she considered responding to Cardi in the music but ultimately decided it would be a “disservice” to the hard work she and her collaborators put into the project, which includes Tyler ICU, Khalil Harrison, Becky G, and Young Miko.

“I can always address it after. Like, I can always drop it, not drop it … but I just feel like it’s like a little beneath me because that was a year ago for me,” she added. “So now this album was coming out on [Oct. 10] either way, whether she dissed me or not.”

Bia says she wasn’t bothered by Cardi B’s “Pretty & Petty” and is willing to get in the booth with her.

“I was like, ‘Well, I’m glad she felt like she’d get that off,’” said Bia about Cardi’s diss track from her new album Am I the Drama? “I knew it was coming because, like, this is rap. I’m competitive so, like: I diss you, you diss me, but you diss me, I diss you … We know what the reasons were and why it was all happening so I just, it’s part of the game, right, you know? it doesn’t really make me feel no type of way other than like, it’s not true. Like there’s things on there that’s like, and what am I supposed to do? Keep rapping with Pardison [Fontaine]? You know I gotta, like, let that go.”

She added, “If she wanna get on a stream or she wanna like get in the booth with me in the real life and, like, really rap and do it for real? … I would do it because I write on the spot.”

Bia says her issues with Cardi B began after she allegedly copied her creative ideas.

The Bianca rapper explained that tensions began to brew with Cardi when she felt like her creative ideas had been taken.

“That was the only thing it was about for me,” she told Nessa, pointing to similarities between her album, Really Her, and Cardi’s single “Enough,” which Bia admits fans brought to her attention.

“People try to make it about, ‘Oh, she redid the Missy Elliott song.’ I didn’t care about that because [“She’s a Bitch”], that’s a song that everybody flips so for me it was the similarities in the creative because I’m not a machine,” Bia explained, noting that she’s a “one band show” with a small team, and “a smaller budget on a smaller platform.”

Bia also alleges that she “could pull out five songs that [Cardi] did it to.” However, she insists she wasn’t interested in escalating things.

“I can go get on your ass again, but it’s like: girl, enjoy your pregnancy, you know what I’m saying? Go enjoy your pregnancy,” she said. “I don’t wanna get on your ass again, say something that gonna hurt your feelings, make me look like the ‘bad guy’ because I’m talking about somebody with a baby. Like, no, that’s not the energy I’m on, you know? Like, I don’t want that to come back to me. My mother didn’t raise me to be dragging a pregnant lady. That’s out.”

Bia suggests that a truce with Cardi B isn’t possible.

When Nessa asked if the two rappers could arrive at “a place where you guys can have a conversation,” Bia recalled a heated phone call where Cardi called her “screaming like 15 times back to back” and that the “respect is out the window.”

“I don’t care to be friends with people that are like that,” Bia said. “Like, I don’t care to be on good terms with people that record conversations and phone calls and, like, that spin narratives to sell music. I don’t do that … My MO is to be here, put my good into the world, do community philanthropy, make great music, touch the people and move on.”

Bia says she doesn’t regret releasing her Cardi diss track, “SUE MEEE?” and denies she spoke ill of her children.

“No, I didn’t feel bad because I didn’t tell a lie,” Bia explained.

She also clarified that she didn’t insult Cardi’s children, Kulture and Wave, saying, “I didn’t speak negatively about her kids. I spoke negatively about her, but I used their names because that’s rap. It’s wordplay, it’s a metaphor.

“Even if those weren’t her kids’ names, the bars would have still worked, so like: okay, noted. That’s the only part that I see, but we see when people talking about people’s kids online all week—that wasn’t that. So for [her] to try to spin that and be like, ‘Oh she was talking about my kids,’ I wasn’t talking about her kids … I just wanted to clear that up.”

Bia says she isn’t worried about the beef overshadowing her music.

“As bad as she wanted to hurt me with this situation, she only helped me because she only have people looking up and seeing like, ‘OK, what is it about this girl,’ or like, ‘What’s her music like? What are her five songs?’”

“So I don’t have no hate in my heart, like, I’m not mad about the situation. Like I said, this is part of the game like. this is you rap on me, I rap about you and it goes on.”

Bia thinks Cardi B is “a great mother.”

In an attempt to find a “positive note” in the conversation, Nessa asked Bia if there was anything nice she could say about her rival.

“I think she’s a great mother,” Bia admitted. “I celebrate women who are great mothers, I had a great mother. Like, my mom was that girl, she was a strong woman. She was a hard working woman, but she also, you know, she didn’t take no shit … I’ve never been in a rap beef in the last 10-15 years. This is the only rap beef I’ve ever been in.

“I’m friends with so many girls, so this is so out of the norm for me even. But I’m standing on business when it comes to my art because that’s all that matters to me. This is what I’m here for. If I didn’t do that, what type of artists would that make me when I’m in there writing everything, slaving everything, putting people on, working with producers? I’m creating in there from scratch.”

To read a history of Bia and Cardi B’s beef, click here.