Cardi B has responded to the #SurvivingCardiB controversy that emerged from a years-old resurfaced Instagram Live. In the three-year old video, she claimed she had drugged then robbed men to survive. "I had to go strip, I had to go, 'Oh yeah, you want to f*ck me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go to this hotel,' and I drugged n***as up, and I robbed them," she says in the video. "That’s what I used to do. Nothing was motherf*cking handed to me."

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CardiB says she used to what? 👀 pic.twitter.com/NJWigTlb9Z — Hip Hop Ratchet (@HipHopRatchet) March 24, 2019

Cardi B made it clear in the statement she shared on her Instagram page today that she was not proud of that part of her past but that it was necessary then for her survival. "All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my future," she wrote in her caption accompanying the screenshot Notes app essay.

In her Notes statement, Cardi B wrote, "So I’m seeing on social media that a [Instagram] live I did 3 years ago has popped back up. A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do to make a living. I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world wit[h] a perfect past I always speak my truth I always own my shit. I’m apart [sic] of a hip hop culture where you can talk about where you come from, talk about the wrong thing you had to do to get where you are. There are rappers that glorify murder violence drugs an[d] robbing. Crimes they feel they had to do to survive. I never glorified the things I brought up in that live I never even put those things in my music because I’m not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to glorify it. I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options. I was blessed to have been able to rise from that but so many women have not. Whether or not they were poor choices at the time I did what I had to do to survive. The men I spoke about n my live were men that I dated that I was involve[d] with men that were conscious willing and aware. I have a past that I can’t change we all do."

Alyssa Bailey News and Strategy Editor Alyssa Bailey is the news and strategy editor at ELLE.com, where she oversees coverage of celebrities and royals (particularly Meghan Markle and Kate Middleton).

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