It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.
Cardi B
If a girl have beef with me, she gon' have beef with me forever.
I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.
I'd rather have money and be broken-hearted than be broke and broken-hearted.
My personality is humongous.
I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.
People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.
I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.
I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.
I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.
I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.
Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.
I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.
Whatever hair color I have on my head, that's what decides what type of outfit I'm going to wear, because not everything goes with your hair color. That's why I switch it up.
The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.
I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.
I'm an October baby, yes.
Say yes to everything. 'You want me to buy you some food?' Yes. 'You want me to buy you a car?' Yes.
I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'
My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands for whatever, depending on the day... beautiful or bully.
I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.
You can't tell me that I can't dress!
I don't know how to drive.
Instagram has said plenty of times that I'm pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don't even know where that's coming from.
I could really make a song of hurt, because I've been hurt by a lot of men. I'm talking about, like, how sad I be when a dude curves me. And I never talk about that because I refuse to let people know that I get sad because when a man don't answer my calls.
I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.
This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.
I'm about this shmoney.
I don't want my personality to overshadow my talent.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
We might as well be true with ourselves.
No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?
I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.
I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.
Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.
I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.
I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.
That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.
I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.
My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.
My mom kicked me out a couple of weeks before my 18th birthday. I had a job for about six, seven months at a supermarket, and they fired me for being late.
I cry sometimes. I get very upset.
I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.
I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.
A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.
A lot of females, they want to do the things that I do. Some females are so closed, but they want to be open. Some girls, they want to feel that power that I tell them that I have. I tell women that I have power over these men, that I use these men.
