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- Cardi B spoke out on X in a video posted on Monday, Dec. 29
- In the clip, the rapper addressed the backlash she’s received for her relationship with NFL star Stefon Diggs
- The video comes days after the couple, who recently welcomed their first baby together, appeared to spend Christmas apart
Cardi B has had enough of people dragging her relationship with Stefon Diggs.
After the rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, appeared to spend Christmas without the NFL star, she addressed the hate she’s been getting from her fans about Diggs head on.
“Y’all need to calm down,” began Cardi, 33, in a lengthy X video on Monday, Dec. 29. “Is y’all cool? Y’all been dragging me for three or four days and y’all been a little bit too mean. Like alright now. Y’all being a little bit too mean.”
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“I can’t change s—” she continued. “I can’t go back in time. I already had a baby. Y’all want me to put my baby back in my p—-? Huh? I don’t know what y’all want me to do. Y’all want me to leave my man and f— yours?”
She added that the only option is to “go forward now.”
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Diggs and Cardi B welcomed their first baby, a boy, together in November. Cardi’s rep confirmed the arrival at the time, telling PEOPLE, “Cardi is healthy and happy.”
Cardi is also mom to three children — daughter Kulture, 7, son Wave, 4, and daughter Blossom, 1 — whom she shares with her estranged husband, rapper Offset.
Before dating Cardi B, Diggs welcomed daughter Nova in October 2016. Model Aileen Lopera later revealed that he had fathered her daughter, Charliee Harper Diggs-Lopera, whom she welcomed in April 2025.
PEOPLE confirmed that paternity records identified Diggs as the father in November.
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On Christmas, Diggs shared photos with multiple children on his Instagram Stories and reposted Cardi’s Instagram post that included a photo of her and their son, according to Page Six.
Cardi ended her video on X Monday, sharing that she has “so much work to do once January starts, that is stressing me out.”
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“I need my support system, my fans, to love me,” she said. “I want you to come to my tour and enjoy yourself with me. Don’t be dragging me. It’s enough, alright, it’s enough.”
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