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Cardi B Responds to Being Called ‘Mexican’

April 5, 2024
Cardi B feuded with influencer Raymonte on X, correcting him about her Dominican heritage after he referred to her as “a Mexican.”
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On Wednesday, Cardi B, 31, responded to influencer Raymonte calling her “ghetto” on TikTok. In his video, the influencer says people do not refer to Cardi B as “ghetto” because “she doesn’t look like a visible...
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Jenny. They got my Cardi B tight again,
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man. They always stressing my girl out man.
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Always like they got her clapping back at people.
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So an influencer Tikki Tucker got Cardi B Tight earlier
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this week for calling her a Mexican on Twitter when she's really
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Dominican and Trinidadian. Why would they call it all started?
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Because the influencer blasted her for calling her very ghetto and saying
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that people don't usually call her ghetto because she's light skinned.
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Cardi B clapped back saying that she still gets called a ghetto
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stripper because she's from the hood and I've seen the tweets like
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I've seen people that's like the first thing that they,
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they like say about her and it's like she's so past that
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already. Like why I keep bringing that shit up her past
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Yeah, I mean there's nothing wrong with that.
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That's like the easy job though.
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You feel me like,
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oh blah, blah,
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blah, you wanna talk shit.
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Yeah. With that later,
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Cardi B said the influencer called her a Mexican correcting him that
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she is actually Dominican.
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She said you do it to me because you know that's what
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people used to hurt me.
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I mean, she has stated in the past where she is
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you know, and where she comes from and where her
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mom and dad are from.
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So well, do you think Cardi B was mad?
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They called her Mexican.
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I mean, they should look up her nationality and get it
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right. I know it's like 24.
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You could like Google this shit.
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Like I think he just said it just to like poke her
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you know, like,
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yeah, like it's just like calling all Latinos Mexicans.
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Like it's like, dude,
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like it's not the fact that they're calling Mexicans because that's my
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people, you know,
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I'm fucking with you like,
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like we're dope but at the fact that you're calling someone something
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that they're not and,
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and putting everyone in a f in a freaking group,
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like how would you feel if someone called Joe Mex?
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He's Dominican so nothing.
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I mean, I would correct them but I,
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I wouldn't be like,
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oh don't call me that or anything like that,
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you know, because I don't look Dominican even in the comments
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one person wrote, you can't call Dominicans,
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Mexican or Mexicans, Dominican just because we speak Spanish.
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That doesn't mean we're from the same country or culture.
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So on one side,
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it sucks that there are people in this country who think all
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Latinos are Mexican but also why would some Latinos like take it
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as an insult? You know,
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like, like, have you ever been confused for another nationality
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like Jenny all the time.
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I get Colombian. What else?
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I get Argentinian. Saudi Arabia.
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I give like a vibe sometimes depending on how my hair is
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But I'm like,
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what is a typical Dominican supposed to look like?
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Like, am I supposed to walk around with a baseball glove
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and Platano? Like on top of my Bachata everywhere and Mexicans
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dude? Like,
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what am I supposed to look like?
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You know, like am I supposed to freaking every I go
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everywhere with every step,
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you know, to the beat of the banda?
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No, we're all different.
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All of us Latinos are different and proud and we should not
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all be called Mexicans.
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You know, how do you all feel about this?
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Do you feel Cardi B is overreacting?
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Tell us in the comments.