Cardi B is firing back against claims that she had a "revenge baby."
On Monday (Jan. 5), the rapper held a heated X Spaces livestream, initially meant to address an unfounded claim that her father was convicted of rape, until it soon spun off into a different rant.
Near the 22-minute mark in the video linked above, a fan alerted Cardi about Jessie Woo appearing on her own YouTube livestream.
At the 28:40 mark in the livestream linked here, Woo read a comment from a viewer who implied Cardi’s most recent son with boyfriend Stefon Diggs was conceived as “revenge.”
Cardi reacted angrily, "A revenge on what? On who? Yo, these bitches just be saying shit because what is a revenge baby? Do you think that l be like, 'Hey, I'm going to have a baby because I'm going to have revenge!’ On what, bitch? On my ex-husband, bitch?"
She rejected the claim, adding, "I don't need to have a baby for revenge, baby. My whole life is revenge, my money is revenge, my career is revenge. My album is revenge. Me not dying over a n***a is revenge. Me having freedom is revenge.”
Elsewhere in the stream, Cardi said, “I could wake up and buy me a car, a house. I could spend a million dollars in one day.”
“You know why I kept my baby? Because I love my baby. Me and my man made that baby with fucking love, bitch. We was fucking down. Fucking down, ‘til it stank!,” she quipped.
From there, the Am I the Drama? rapper defended her autonomy, calling herself a “grown woman” that makes “my fucking own decisions.”
“Jessie Woo is another hating ass bitch," she said of the Love and Hip Hop: Miami star. “You always fucking lying about some shit, dumbass bitch. Sick of you too, bitch. The fuck is you talking about 'policing?' I don't got to police no n***a to stay with me.
“Let me tell you something, that n***a got options,” Cardi said about Diggs. “And guess what? I am not the only bitch that that he ever fucked that is famous and got money and is a bad bitch. I can't help that a n***a fell in love with The Brim. He loves it over here.
"You imagine my grown ass having a baby for fucking revenge, bitch? You think it's easy having a baby? But of course, it's a bitch with no kids that's saying that. You think a bitch is gonna say to herself, 'I'm gonna have this baby for fucking revenge,’ like if it's easy to have a baby and take care of one, and carry one, especially [at] my age.”
Cardi closed out the rant with, “You think it's easy to carry life? … Of course this a bitch with no fucking kids, so you wouldn't even understand how sacred that shit is. Think having a baby is buying a puppy? Bitch, this ain't no fucking puppy! And that's another bitch that I don't fucking like cuz she lied on me. Lied on me the day that I announced that I was pregnant. Suck my dick, bitch.”
Cardi is still presumed to be in the midst of divorce proceedings with ex Offset.
She welcomed her fourth child, a son nicknamed Baby Brim, on Nov. 4, 2025, her first child with boyfriend Diggs, who is rumored to have fathered other children from previous relationships.
Cardi shares her other three children with Offset: daughter Kulture (born 2018), son Wave (born Sept. 2021), and youngest daughter Blossom (born Sept. 2025).
Her conflict with Jessie Woo seemingly dates back to 2021, when Woo claimed someone on Cardi's former team had said they wanted to "knock Nicki Minaj out," a claim Cardi strongly denied.