Months after its release, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “WAP” is somehow still managing to spark controversy. While freaked out men and pearl-clutching politicians have been railing against the song for months now, this time its critics are actually mad at Cardi B for not playing it.
The star faced backlash earlier this week after sharing an Instagram video in which she turns off the explicit song when her two-year-old daughter, Kulture, enters the room. Critics accused Cardi B of hypocrisy, questioning her stalwart defense of a song she won’t let her own daughter to listen to.
“So ya daughter cant listen to it but everybody else’s daughter can? Exactly what I been saying you have an agenda to push with that trash ass label your with,” wrote one outraged Twitter user.
Naturally, Cardi B had an extremely reasonable response: She writes music for adults, not children, and it is up to parents to decide what kind of content is appropriate for their own children.
“Ya needs to stop with this already! I’m not jojosiwa! I don’t make music for kids I make music for adults,” Cardi B wrote on Twitter. “Parents are responsible [for] what their children listen to or see. I’m a very sexual person but not around my child just like every other parent should be.”
“There’s moms who are strippers,” the star added in a subsequent tweet. “Pop pussy, twerk all night for entertainment does that mean they do it around their kids? No! Stop makin this a debate. It’s pretty much common sense.”
Since its debut last August, “WAP” has attracted criticism from a diverse cast of characters including Tiger King star Carole Baskin, whatever it is we’re calling Russell Brand these days, and the Republican Senate candidate who claimed he was compelled to fill his ear canal with holy water after “accidentally” hearing the song. And while “WAP” may owe some of its chart-topping success to the inexplicable flurry of controversy that seems to follow it wherever it goes, Cardi B appears to be pretty much over it. Let’s all move on now and let the superstar parent in peace, shall we?
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