Speaking from Saudi Arabia — where Sharia law governs daily life — Cardi B blasted the United States on social media, saying she hasn’t seen a single “bum” overseas and declaring that Americans must “convince” her to return to what she derided as “ghetto America.”
“I’m starting not to like America,” Cardi B told her 164 million followers in a recent Instagram Live video.“America made me pay taxes, the Vice President talking shit about me on Twitter, like, I don’t know, I don’t feel I’m appreciated in America.”
“Y’all need to convince me to come back. I don’t know if I want to go back. Convince me, now. Beg me to come back to America. I don’t think I might go back,” the “Please Me” rapper added. “I don’t know, I’m not feeling America right now.”
“Should I go back? I don’t know. I mean, why would I?” Cardi B continued. “Look at this country, look how they treat me. They about to give me a new name and everything. I just need to get my license over here.” Watch:
Cardi B proceeded to call the United States “ghetto,” adding, “That is not my life anymore. I’m a new woman over here.”
The rapper also gushed over how it seems “everybody” seems to know who she is in Saudi Arabia, adding that the Arab men “treat me like I’m their queen.”
“They want me to be their queen or something, like, these people out here are very polite,” she said. “When you come over here, almost everybody is wearing black, and, like, the men, they’re wearing, like, the red stuff on they head.”
“They don’t look at you like you’re poor. They could, because this country, honey, is very luxury,” “the “Up” rapper added. “Everything is brand new, honey, like, this country look like it was just opened yesterday or something.”
“All the buildings are brand new, the lights is bright, all that, like, these people over here, they got that real money,” Cardi B said, before praising the food and shopping in Saudi Arabia, then speaking Arabic, adding, “I like it over here, I really, really like it.”
The “Bodak Yellow” rapper also posted a video of herself to Instagram clad in all-black, form-fitting attire and a black hijab, alongside the caption, “Hello Saudi Arabia… Halal B has arrived.”