Cardi B wants to make one thing clear — she’s not strapped for cash!
After some followers accused the rapper, 32, of taking brand deals to pay the bills, Cardi B was determined to set the record straight in a voice recording posted via X on Tuesday, December 3.
“People say that I’m surviving off Shein deals and brand deals — wait, hold on,” she said in the voice recording. “I want to let y’all know I could wake up tomorrow and sign a contract and I’d have half of $65 million — or half of $70 million — in my bank.”
The “WAP” artist added that she regularly shells out big bucks to support her lavish lifestyle.
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“I spent, like, about $3 million in a month,” Cardi B added.
The rapper claimed that 2024 is her “off year” when it comes to music deals, adding that she is purposely holding off signing a tour deal until her next album release in order to secure a larger payout.
“You can’t act like you’re hungry, especially when you’re not,” Cardi B explained.
She suggested she could make $1 million per show or $65 million in total when she finally did choose to put pen to paper on a deal with “half the money upfront upon signing the contract.”
It’s been six years since Cardi B released her album Invasion of Privacy, so fans are waiting with bated breath for a collection of new music.
“I just be feeling like I don’t be liking anything. I feel like I got so many songs. I just don’t like nothing. Like, nothing is good enough. I got so much f–king money saved up, I be like, ‘Yeah, whatever the f—,’” she said via an Instagram Live in December 2022. “Making music to me has become like a job that gives me anxiety because everybody just critiques everything that I do.”
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During the same Instagram Live, Cardi B touched on how becoming a mother has also contributed to her hesitation when it comes to creating and releasing another album. (She and ex Offset welcomed their daughter, Kulture Kiari, in July 2018 and their son, Wave Set, in September 2021.)
“I feel like I have gotten too comfortable because, you know — I’m just a mom, and I do have anxiety,” she said. “I’ve been having a lot of anxiety because I know right after I drop my album, I have to go out on tour, and I have bad separation anxiety from my kids.”
