Offset Praises Cardi B In Wake Of 'Drugging' Controversy
By Peyton Blakemore
March 28, 2019
Offset it standing by his wife Cardi B.
On Wednesday (March 27), the Migos rapper took to Instagram to share his love for the "Please Me" rapper amid fallout from a resurfaced video of Cardi admitting to drugging and robbing men.
"Ride or die forever. Love you no matter what's going on," Offset captioned a throwback photo of the two on the beach. "[You're] the best mother and hustler I know."
The resurfaced video of Cardi began circulating on social media over the weekend. In the clip, the 26-year-old rapper admitted to drugging and robbing men during her days as a stripper in the Bronx. "I had to go strip, I had to go, 'Oh yeah, you want to f**k me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go back to this hotel,' and I drugged n***as up, and I robbed them," she said during an Instagram Live video three years ago. "That's what I used to do."
The video sparked the hashtag #SurivingCardiB, and led some to "cancel" her as they deemed her previous actions "irreprehensible."
Cardi addressed the resurfaced video on Tuesday (March 26). While she didn't apologize for her past actions, she didn't "glorify" them either. "So I'm seeing on social media that a live I did 3 years ago has popped back up. A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living," Cardi wrote in a since-deleted Instagram post. "I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world wit [sic] a perfect past I always speak my truth I always own my s***."
"I never glorified the things I brought up in that live [sic]I never even put those things in my music because I'm not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it," she continued. "I did what I had to do to survive."
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