The rap game has always been a battlefield of bars and beefs, but Cardi B’s September 2025 album Am I the Drama? just turned it into an all-out war zone. The track “Magnet,” a razor-sharp diss aimed at JT from City Girls and Ice Spice, has unleashed a torrent of threats, leaked texts, and resurfaced scandals that are pulling in unexpected players like Stefon Diggs and Latto. What started as Cardi’s clapback at perceived disloyalty has escalated into accusations of DL (down-low) lifestyles, sexual assaults, and even defamation suits, all while Cardi’s heavily pregnant and seemingly unstoppable. As fans pick sides in this chaotic clash, one thing’s clear: In hip-hop’s cutthroat arena, no one’s safe from the fallout—and Cardi’s swinging for the fences.
The spark ignited with “Magnet,” the album’s standout single, where Cardi unleashes a lyrical barrage that’s equal parts petty and pointed. Over a thumping beat, she targets JT as a “hating bee, ungrateful bee, fake friend bee, a clown bee,” accusing her of ditching their friendship to play lap dog for Nicki Minaj and dating a man she’d “share bags with” but whose “behind” Cardi wouldn’t “stick sticks in.” The line—a not-so-subtle nod to rumors of Lil Uzi Vert’s DL tendencies—landed like a gut punch, especially amid JT’s ongoing narrative of loyalty to Nicki post-City Girls hiatus. Cardi didn’t stop there, shading Ice Spice as a “slowface B” copycat: “Whose spot is you taking? Who? My spot’s forever. 304, I’m like a Dalmatian.” The “304” jab—slang for promiscuous women—echoed Ice’s 2023 “ghetto” clash with Cardi, where Ice called out colorism in how Cardi’s “ghetto” is marketable but hers isn’t.
JT, never one to back down, fired the first real shot on X within hours of the album drop. “Chris lied because he was stealing and got caught. There’s receipts for that,” she tweeted, dragging Stefon Diggs’ alleged SA scandal with stylist Chris Griffin into the fray. Griffin’s October 2024 lawsuit accused Diggs of drugging him with laced jelly beans during a 2023 session, leading to arousal, unwanted Porsche advances (ear-licking, self-exposure), and a retaliatory robbery by Diggs’ brother Derez and goons after rejection. “They wanted my mouth closed about the closeted receiver,” Griffin said in a Tasha K interview, vowing “receipts like a printer.” JT’s tweet tied it to Cardi’s Uzi shade: “Your man make you abort every time. Ask what he told me about wanting to see Brit in court and she didn’t show up. Or do I need to play the audio?” The abortion jab referenced Uzi-JT rumors, escalating to threats of explicit leaks.
Cardi, unfazed and unfiltered, hit back hard. “I got receipts for days, nasty ones. Aiden got ashy news,” she tweeted, threatening to drop Uzi-JT intimate content. She dragged JT’s stripper past: “Got your in they [ __ ] phone. I bet it ain’t no glass object up my [ __ ] like a room full of and stripper.” The “glass objects” line alluded to JT’s alleged explicit videos from her dancer days. Cardi even looped in Latto, who collabed on “Put It on the Floor Too” remix: “Latto, whose spot is you taking? My spot’s forever.” Latto, caught in the crossfire despite no beef, stayed silent—until Cardi “apologized” hours later: “I was ranting and hot… I f*** with Latto heavy. That’s my public apology, and now I’ma privately buy her a bag.”
The apology felt like damage control, especially after Cardi’s audio leak of a furious call with Ice Spice’s manager. In the clip, a pregnant Cardi rages: “You think I’m loud? You think I’m naked? I’ll beat her… any red carpet, any show I see her, I’mma go in that mouth.” She dared Ice: “Pull up… New York link up.” The call, from Ice’s team pushing a “Empire State” collab, turned venomous as Cardi referenced Nicki: “Unlike Nicki, I’ll actually whoop her.” Fans gasped: “Cardi’s pregnant and thuggin’—Ice better hide.” Ice’s leaked “Pretty Privilege” responded: “She might talk ish on the gram, but she won’t talk ish to my face… Pose her. She hear my song and copy everything I say.”
This feud isn’t new—Cardi and Ice clashed in 2023 over “ghetto” perceptions, Ice calling out colorism: “You got major campaigns… ghetto Black women like me never get.” Cardi’s response then: “People misinterpret me because I’m loud and ghetto… When I sat with Bernie and Biden, they called me a stripper.” Now, with “Magnet,” it’s reignited, pulling JT and Latto in. JT’s Diggs expose ties to Offset’s 2023 “gay boyfriend” tweet amid their split. Fans: “Cardi left cheater Offset for DL Diggs—karma’s a bee.”
X is ablaze: “Cardi’s unhinged—pregnant threats? Wild,” one tweeted. Another: “JT’s Diggs drag? Receipts incoming.” Latto’s collab verse in “Magnet”? Ironic shade. Cardi’s “bag” apology? Pragmatic peace. Ice’s silence? Strategic—her “Munch” remix with Cardi never dropped post-2023 beef.
This war exposes rap’s fractures: loyalty tested, secrets spilled, power plays. Cardi’s bars hit hard, but threats risk escalation. JT’s counter? Calculated. As Am I the Drama? climbs charts, the real drama unfolds off-mic. For Ice, Latto, JT—Cardi’s empire-building leaves casualties. In hip-hop’s arena, where words wound deeper than fists, this beef’s just warming up.
