Cardi B has delved into her decision not to let her 2-year-old daughter, Kulture, listen to her monolithic Megan Thee Stallion collaboration ‘WAP’, following criticism on Twitter.

Cardi responded to a tweet from @Mo_fierce, who shared a video of Cardi singing along to the chart-dominating single before promptly turning the track off when Kulture enters the room.

“So ya daughter cant listen to it but everybody else’s daughter can ?” @Mo_fierce wrote, tagging Cardi in the tweet.

This prompted Cardi to respond in a separate tweet, askin fans to “stop with this already”, and highlighting that her career is targetted towards adult listeners.

“I don’t make music for kids I make music for adults,” Cardi wrote. “Parents are responsible on what their children listen too or see.”

She continued,  “I’m a very sexual person but not around my child just like every other parent should be.”

In a follow-up tweet, Cardi mused that there are “moms who are strippers” but that doesn’t “mean they do it around their kids.”

“Stop makin this a debate,” she continued. “Its pretty much common sense.”

This is far from the first time ‘WAP’ has attracted criticism for its fantastically horny lyric content. A few weeks ago, Snoop Dogg and Cardi B’s husband, Migos rapper Offset, shared a few words following Snoop’s off-colour critique of the song.

During an on Central Ave, Snoop suggested to host Julissa Bermudez that the track was too overtly-sexual.

“Let’s have some, you know, privacy, some intimacy where he wants to find out as opposed to you telling him,” Snoop said. “To me, it’s like, it’s too fashionable when that in secrecy, that should be a woman’s…that’s like your pride and possession.”

These comments incited a well-measured response from Offset, who took it as an opportunity to highlight the paradoxical standards between men and women in hip hop.

“I love Snoop man, but she grown. I don’t get in female business,” he told TMZ. “I hate when men do that. I don’t do that.”

“It’s entertainment, you know what I’m saying? That’s a number one record,” he said. “Anybody can say what they wanna say, that’s six-time platinum in three or four months…it wasn’t that bad cause it went No. 1.”

Offset went on to address the hypocrisy within the rap scene, emphasising the importance of elevating female voices.

“As rappers, we talk about the same shit,” he said. “It’s a lot of women empowerment, don’t shoot it down. We’ve never had this many artists that’s female artists running this shit. They catching up to us, passing us, setting records.”

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