Cardi B Denies Sneak Dissing Nicki Minaj Via Graffiti in Street Maternity Shoot, Deletes Photos
Cardi B has deleted a pair of maternity shoot photos after fans suggested the graffiti in the background was a subtle diss toward Nicki Minaj.
The rapper recently shared maternity shoot photos on social media that featured her sitting on a motorbike in front of the shutters of a store in New York City. The shutters featured graffiti that read “homesick pedophile,” which caused some to read into whether it was her firing shots at anyone or not. “If you really think Cardi used a moment like a maternity shoot to throw shade at anyone, you are far too deep into the ‘Stan’ shit,” wrote one fan, to which someone replied that it was “a little weird to have a term like [that] in the background for a maternity shoot.”
“First of all we literally picked a random street because paparazzi was hounding us everywhere,” wrote Cardi in response to the tweet. “This was supposed to be my original first picture and we had to edit the photos in minutes because the shoot got leaked. Didn’t even have time to go over every detail because people were busy trying to expose my pregnancy as [an] ‘aha’ moment… Second I’m ALWAYS with the shits but I’m not using MY MATERNITY shoot to be funny. Are you dumb??”
Cardi B via X
Cardi has since deleted the photos, but that didn’t stop some suggestions that the graffiti was a deliberate choice rather than an unfortunate mistake due to the hasty nature of the photo shoot.
Nicki Minaj’s brother, Jelani Maraj, was convicted of predatory sexual assault of an 11-year-old girl in 2017 and was sentenced to 25 years to life in 2020. Her husband, Kenneth Petty, was sentenced to home detention and probation in 2022 after he failed to register as a sex offender in California. He is required to register as a sex offender due to his 1995 attempted rape conviction.
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Both of the legal cases became big talking points earlier this year when Megan Thee Stallion referred to Megan’s Law, which requires the “public disclosure of information about registered sex offenders when required to protect the public,” in her diss record “Hiss.”
