Rapper Cardi B told fans during a heated X Spaces session that their complaints about her release schedule will not make her work any faster, AllHipHop reported on August 13. She said she is taking the entire summer off to spend time with her kids, and that pressure from fans has the opposite effect on her: when she gets frustrated with the criticism, she says she is more likely to step back than speed up.
She added that she is working on new music without any particular deadline, mainly to keep building her catalog rather than to satisfy demands for a release date, and separately said on Instagram Live that she plans to throw a party in New York this week to mark her biggest tracks, describing the guest list in blunt terms of who she wants in the room.
The comments come as her single AH HA continues to perform well, and after a photographer was detained while she filmed its music video in Brooklyn's Sunset Park on August 10. AllHipHop identified the photographer as 70-year-old Steven Sands, who was accused of bypassing police barriers and ignoring instructions from her security staff before NYPD handcuffed him and issued a disorderly conduct summons.
Sands disputed that account afterward on Instagram Stories, saying he never crossed the barriers and was only asking to move for a better camera angle; he also directed insults at Cardi B in the same posts. The dispute unfolded next to a patrol car as the shoot continued around it.
Her recent run, spanning the AH HA rollout, the video shoot incident and now her comments about pacing new music, sits within hip-hop on MusicSuey.
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- Cardi B said complaints will not speed up her next release
- She said she is taking the summer off
- She made the comments on X Spaces
- She is planning a party in New York this week
- The comments come amid the release of her single AH HA
- A 70-year-old photographer, Steven Sands, was detained during her AH HA video shoot on August 10
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