Cardi B Addresses Speculation She's Throwing Shade at Nicki Minaj on Instagram

Cardi B is addressing all of the talk about her new maternity photos.

On Sunday (September 1), the 31-year-old “Bodak Yellow” rapper, who is currently pregnant with baby No. 3, took to Instagram to share a few photos of herself posing on a motorcycle with her bare belly on full display.

“I wanna meet my little boo boo soo bad already ????” Cardi captioned the post, in which she posed in an alley.

After sharing the photos, fans were quick to notice that the word “Pedophile” was spray-painted behind Cardi, with many speculating that the rapper was throwing some shade at Nicki Minaj.

Keep reading to find out more…If you didn’t know, Cardi and Nicki, 41, have very publicly feuded in the past and Nicki‘s husband Kenneth Petty is a registered sex offender.

“Lol wait why there’s Pedophile written on the wall??……is this a nicki shade?” one person tweeted along with Cardi‘s photos, while another wrote, “Cardi B seems to be taunting Nicki Minaj’s family by taking photos in front of graffiti that reads ‘pedophile.’”

Following all of the speculation, Cardi took to X on Monday (September 2) to set the record straight.

“First of all we literally picked a random street because paparazzi was hounding us everywhere.. this was supposed to be my original first picture and we had to edit the photos in minutes because the shoot got leaked,” Cardi tweeted. “Didn’t even have time to go over every detail because people were busy trying to expose my pregnancy as ‘aha’ moment…Second I’m ALWAYS with the s–ts but I’m not using MY MATERNITY shoot to be funny. Are you dumb??”

In a follow-up tweet, Cardi wrote, “Btch my makeup artist touched up the picture because we didn’t have time for all that, it says the date and time nobody was paying attention to the graffiti… second if I wanted to be petty I would’ve posted a lot of memes last week.. I KEEP TELLIN YALL TO LEAVE ME THE F-K ALONE !! If I’m saying I’m not on that time DONT MAKE ME GET ON THAT TIME. Unrist yourself!!”

If you missed it, Cardi recently opened up about a very scary medical emergency that nearly resulted in the loss of her pregnancy.