Cardi B (14:34)
It's just a lot of things. Like, sometimes when kids are, like, bad or they get into trouble, people automatically blame the parents. And you can have the best parents, like my parents. They are not criminals. They have never even committed a crime. My grandma used to tell My mom, a lot like is that you're pretty for no reason. And I feel like they used to tell her that because it's like she's so pretty. So it's like, you know, Caribbean folks is like when you're pretty and you're this and that, it's like they always expect you to be with a man that got a lot of money. And my mom, she was never even that type of person. She was a very modest and honest, hard working woman. So. And my dad, he's a good man. He's a party animal, but he's a good man, he's a good person, he's a good dad. However, you will end up going in the wrong path or going in the wrong direction because the influence around you because certain peer pressure or because you almost have no choice, especially if you're a boy. You never know if you're going to have a boy or girl, especially if you're a boy. And when you are a girl, it is a little bit difficult, it is a little bit tougher. I feel like people just grow a little bit faster in the hood. Like when I was 11 years old, there was girls in my class in the sixth grade, 11 years old. I have nieces that are 11 years old. All they want to do is play Roblox nowadays. But when I was 11 years old, there was girls that were already at 11 in sixth grade. So it's like you go certain paths, path or your environments. Like boys too in the hood, they're a little faster. So you know, you will be walking down the block and the typical little bad boy, he'll slap your ass out of nowhere. He'll slap your ass out of nowhere. You start arguing with him, he'll smack the shit out of your face. There. That's how boys, a lot of boys in the Bronx are. They're very like aggressive. They're aggressive with girls, they're aggressive, they grouped out, they, they grope you. You just never know. Like one of the, one of the reasons also why I'm so witty with my mouth. People were like, why are you so witty? Why are you so thin? Like going to school? It was like, it was almost like, like, I think that's why I'm always so tough. Like boys or girls? Mostly boys. They used to like kind of like make fun of certain things, but not only just me, to everybody. Like you look at your shoes, they're le. Look at your hair. Your hair is never not done. So I used to go home and I used to go in the mirror and practice my jokes. And the next day I will be like, all right, I can't wait till he flame me. I got a joke or two for him. That's why I'm so witty too, as well. So it's like, I don't want to raise my kids in that type of environment. I don't want to. And then on top of that, is that it is fun. I had a lot of fun in the hood, but. But it's like, it's not fun, like, for me, right? It's not fun living in an apartment, right? And contrary to what I say, I don't cook, I don't clean. I grew up with a mom that will make me brush the corners. The corners of the apartment, like, brush it by hand. That's how clean my. My home had to be. My crib had to be. Every day I was doing dishes. Every day I was mopping floors. Every day I was making sure that I go side to the parking lot and take off the garbage. And even though no matter how clean your apartment is, there will still be roaches, there will still be mices, because your neighbor, probably a hoarder, the person downstairs is dirty. Y' all live in the same building. You cannot avoid certain. Certain rodents and stuff. And it's like, I don't want to put my. My kids through that. And it's like, I have to find another way. And then. Then another thing. They always, like, gets me in my head. It's like this one time, my mom, she was working very hard, but we still needed help. So she went to welfare to get, like, benefit. Like a benefit card and stuff like that. And the lady, like, my mom, she's the type of person, like, it's like, if you rude to her, she gonna be like, oh, I don't gotta take this. And she would just storm out, like, I don't gotta take. Nobody gotta talk. Gonna talk to me like that. She got a very strong character. And this lady was talking so rude and so nasty to my mom. And she was me telling. Taking it because we needed the help. I don't want nobody to feel like they have to talk to me a certain type of way because I need the help. And it's like, this could never, ever be me. I would never want to, like, be in a situation where I have to go get welfare, and the social worker is talking to me like, I'm a dog, like, I need you. And I just felt so bad for my mom because she just felt so I could tell her face that she. She was just, like, looking for the papers that she needed. Like, it just. That vision is always in my head, and it's like, it be getting me mad. I hope that lady. I want punch in her face to this day, and I don't want that. I ain't wanted that.
