Just 4 months back, the “Be Careful” rap artist protected her collection of designer bags—most significantly, her numerous Hermès Birkin bags—after a tweet went viral for slamming Black females for buying high-end products, badly recommending they “depreciate the value of a Hermés Birkin bag.”
“Why is it that y’all asking female rappers if they could get a bag from the Hermès store?” Cardi fired back in an Instagram video last October. “Y’all don’t do this to these white celebrities… So why is it that y’all gotta be asking us.”
“Another thing is that they’re saying that we depreciate the value,” she continued. “Actually, we add value because in hip-hop, when we mention brands in hip-hop, they s–t go up.”
In truth, Cardi explained that when she discussed Balenciaga in her chart-topping tune “I Like It” with Bad Bunny and J Balvin, their sales increased.
“They s–t went up, too,” she described, “which’s why they dealt with me this year.
