Cardi B Says She ‘Didn’t Get Paid a Dollar’ for Kamala Harris Rally Appearance

There’s nothing in this world Cardi B likes more than checks, but that doesn’t mean she took any money from the Kamala Harris campaign to attend a rally in Milwaukee.

On Thursday (Nov. 14), the politically outspoken rapper cleared up any misconceptions on the matter with a tweet aimed at conservative commentator Candace Owens, who’d written on X, “Hey @iamcardib — Working on a story and was wondering if you were in any way paid to speak at the Kamala campaign event you spoke at.”

Cardi quickly replied with, “I didn’t get paid a dollar and that’s on my three!!”

“I actually came out of pocket for glam and travel because it’s somewhere I wanted to be..,” the “WAP” artist continued. “Like please girl you know damn well I’ll argue you down about politics FOR FREE.”

The interaction comes a week after Donald Trump won the 2024 presidential election, beating out the Democratic Harris-Walz ticket. Cardi — as well as numerous other A-list musicians — had staunchly supported the VP’s White House bid, with the Whipshots founder even speaking at a Nov. 1 campaign event in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, to help drum up some last-minute support.

“Like Kamala Harris, I’ve been the underdog, underestimated, and had my success belittled,” she said at the time. “Women have to work 10 times harder and still face questions about how we achieved success. I can’t stand a bully, but just like Kamala, I always stand up to one.”

When Harris’ campaign efforts proved unsuccessful, Cardi shared an emotional letter to the politician. “This may not mean much but I am so proud of you!” the hip-hop titan wrote, addressing the former prosecutor directly. “No one has ever made me change my mind and you did! I never thought I would see the day that a woman of color would be running for the President of the United States, but you have shown me, shown my daughters and women across the country that anything is possible.”

Cardi also issued a warning to Trump’s supporters post-election. “So you know, Trumpettes, y’all won, I know y’all happy,” she said in a video posted to X Nov. 6. “Ain’t nobody acting like they’re the losers. However, y’all need to leave me the f–k alone. Because I got one more f–king cigarette in me before I start lighting your asses up. Aight?”

The “Up” artist’s history with Owens goes back years before their latest X exchange, with the latter first calling the former “illiterate” and suggesting that Black Americans should be “insulted” by Biden’s partnership with Cardi in 2020. The two women have sparred multiple times in the years since, but unexpectedly found a fleeting piece of common ground in 2023 when Owens backed up Cardi’s assertion that Brian Szasz — the stepson of a billionaire who died in the Titanic submersible implosion that year — was merely looking for “clout.”

“We all know this day would come,” Owens tweeted at the time. “Finally, I agree with [Cardi B] and everything she said about the submarine stepson from hell.”

See Cardi’s tweet to Owens below.