A Timeline of Cardi B & Candace Owens’ Political Debate

Owens tweeted a clip of her interview with fellow conservative commentator Ben Shapiro on his show Sunday, where she expressed their mutual disregard for Cardi following her No. 1 hit “WAP” and her interview with former Vice President Biden.

“If Black Americans aren’t insulted by the fact that Joe Biden, who has been hiding in his basement for the entire year, made an appearance and came out because he was going to do an interview with Cardi B, do we have nothing better to offer?” the 31-year-old figure argued. “I mean, this would be akin to Donald Trump saying, ‘I’m going to give no interviews,’ but he came up and he decided to give an interview to Justin Bieber…. Justin Bieber, I am sorry, I know you are Christian and I don’t want to put you in the same boat as Cardi B, but it would be absurd…. It’s because you’re pandering.”

She proceeded to call the 27-year-old rapper “illiterate” by mimicking her signature “Okurr” catchphrase and claimed the interview with Biden was carefully handled to appeal to young Black American voters.

The two fired back at each other on Twitter all Sunday night, with Cardi (real name Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar) sharing a video of her sister Hennessy Carolina and her girlfriend being harassed by Trump supporters “because they are a Afro/Hispanic gay couple.” The “WAP” rapper spoke on the incident further during an Instagram Live in response to Owens’ The Ben Shapiro Show segment. “No matter how much money I make, no matter how hard I work, I can’t be a f—ing free American. My sister can’t be a f—ing free American. You got this f—ing Trump supporting family harassing two lesbians. The f—?” she argued.

“You’re saying Joe Biden is pandering because he’s using a popular figure like me,” she continued. “But your president, the guy that you f—ing love so much, he panders as well too…. I’m gonna keep telling my millions of followers to vote until we get your president out of here.”

And in an effort to have the last word, Owen filmed her own IG Live response video. “You continually keep saying you have a No. 1 song. It means s—,” she said. “Nobody cares about a song about your ‘wet a– p—y.’ Excuse my language for my followers… That has nothing to do with Black America and whether or not you are helping or hurting.” She also listed demands for Cardi in her caption, including, “Stop using your platform to call for more black deaths. Stop lying about Trump. Stop supporting Joe Biden who supported segregation and the mass incarceration of black men.”