I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.
— Cardi B
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.
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.
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
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.
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.
Libras like to take risks!
It's not even the female rappers that are catty - it's the fans. They just want that beef.
I never thought I was going to be popular; I never thought I was going to be famous.
That was an organic relationship. He reached out to me, and I was like, 'Oh my God, I cannot believe somebody like Laquan Smith wants to put his clothes on me.' He comes from a small place, and he has big dreams, and what I like about him the most is that his clothes curve with your body.
What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.
I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
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.
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'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!
I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.
No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.
I don't know how to drive.
I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.
I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.
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.
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.
You can't tell me that I can't dress!
I used to tell myself that I will always be myself.
I need to make money for my family and my future family. I'm not a YOLO person.
I don't feel like anyone should follow what I did.
A lot of designers, they did tell me no. They didn't really wanna work with me.
Me and my mom are pretty cool. My mother's Caribbean, and she gets a little spicy, and I get a little spicy back.
I just feel like I influence people because I'm like - I was practically homeless.
When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.
I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.
People should listen to my music because it's good.
I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.
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.
A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.
I don't want to live in a small Bronx apartment. I don't want to have three kids that got to share one room.
Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.
We might as well be true with ourselves.
Summertime, this is the time that you flex.
I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.
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.
When I was 19, 20, 21, I wasn't extremely thick.
I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.
I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.
I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.
I'm about this shmoney.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
The first splurge that I did, I bought, like, an $80,000 watch, but that's because I'm a rapper. I need jewelry.
It's never too early to get married now.
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.
