Cardi B Goes Off on Joe Budden for Criticism Over Delayed Sophomore Album: ‘You Don’t Know S–t’

As the wait for her anticipated sophomore album continues, Cardi B blasted Joe Budden for his criticism of her project rollout and made allegations of drug use against him.

The Grammy-winning artist went ballistic against the rapper-turned-podcaster during a Twitter Spaces session on Thursday afternoon (July 18).

“Bro I gave you a lap dance two times in Starlets. You was high as f–k. High as f–k on coke, n—a… I don’t give a f–k when people talk s–t about me,” she spewed. “It’s the fact you always talk shit about me Joe Budden. Out of nowhere, you would think I did something to this n—a… For the past two years, this n—a has only talked bad things about me.”

Cardi B doesn’t appreciate Budden allegedly pinning her against other rising women rappers.

 “Every five or six months you comparing another female rapper towards me, you compare new artists, old artists, every single fucking artist with me, bro,” she said. “If you love these b—–s so much, why are you not talking about their album? You compare females to me that my worst records beat their best records. I don’t give a f–k about none of these b—–s.”

Cardi continued: “But you really want my album to come out so you can criticize it,” she said. “Cause every time I drop something you don’t like it. Every single time a b—h drops something and they doing mediocre, you say they doing better than me… What are you talking about? The s–t is in motion. Merch is in motion, the box sets is in motion. You don’t know s–t.”

On a recent podcast, Joe Budden predicted that Cardi B isn’t going to release another album in her career, which she took issue with.

“We’ll never get another album again. I am standing on it,” he said. “Cardi got something dropping with my man Rob[49] on Friday, but that’s what Cardi’s gonna be now. A single artist.”

Budden added: “I’m sure Offset wants Cardi to put an album out. Ay, fellas out there. Boyfriends, y’all know that feeling right? When you want your b—h to get a job. You in the house and your b—h won’t leave… Ain’t you got an album to do? Ain’t you got a single?”

Following Cardi’s Spaces rant, Budden pushed back against allegations of cocaine use and ever getting a lap dance from her. He also promised to “not cover a single thing this girl does for the remainder of her career.”

“I really just wanted an album from someone whose music i love,” he wrote on X and eventually apologized to the “WAP” rapper. “She cursing me smooth out but she still hilarious lol…. I’m going to bed, i apologize to @iamcardib for whatever i did and peace and love to all.”

It’s been over six years Cardi B’s Invasion of Privacy album arrived in April 2018. Her acclaimed debut topped the Billboard 200 with 255,000 album units sold in the first week and went on to win best rap album at the 2019 Grammy Awards.

While the prospects of her sophomore project remain unknown, Cardi is dishing out another fiery feature where she’ll join Rob49 for “On Dat Money” on Friday (July 19)

Find more of Budden’s response below.