Cardi Bis stepping away from social media.
The 29-year-old rapper deleted herTwitterandInstagramaccounts on Sunday evening after she clashed with fans for not attending the2022 Grammy Awards.
“I’m deleting my Twitter but oh God I hate this f—in' dumbass fan base,” Cardi wrote, according toBillboardwho captured her messages before her account was deleted.
“You got the slow dumbasses dragging my kids all cause y’all [thought] I was going to the Grammys and I didn’t? The f—?” she continued in another. “When the f— I hinted I was going? Just f—in stupid. I can’t. I need to protect myself.”
A representative forCardi Bdid not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment.
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“When did I hype y’all up ?” Cardi said, per the outlet. “Where and when did I ever gave hints ? Like are you ok ? I’m not going to an award [show] if I don’t got a new song to perform or [if] my album ain’t out.”
‘Next year," she added.
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Cardi Bthen explained to fans in another tweet that she wasn’t even in Las Vegas, where the Grammys were taking place. “I been posting on my IG stories where I been at … like clearly I’m in my house and I’m in NY,” she wrote.
“Y’all so f—in’ dumb I really don’t like y’all,“Cardi Badded in a follow-up message, perBillboard, after fans began to mention her two children, whom she shares with husbandOffset.
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Later on Sunday evening,Cardi Bappeared in an Instagram Live video, where she addressed the Twitter situation and not attending the Grammys.
“Why would I go to the awards for?” she asked in an eight-minute clip, according toE! News. “Do I have any new music? Why would I show up with one nomination?”
Cardi Bspoke out about fans who brought her children into the conversation. “That s— really piss the f— out of me,” she said. “If you bring up my son, I hate you. I wish the worst on you.”
The mother of two also said she was busy working, which was another reason why she didn’t the ceremony. “I don’t like it when motherf—–s attack me to do some s— and then call me lazy because I’m not doing it,” she said, per E! News. “One thing I hate is when people call me lazy because I work so motherf—ing much. And that’s why I’m f—ing mad.”
According toBillboard,Cardi Bhas taken a break from Twitter on two previous occasions — once in October 2020 and another time later in March 2021.
source: people.com
