Cardi B Said She Always Wanted to Be the Person Her Mom ‘Didn’t Let’ Her Be

<p id="par-1_51">Cardi B has a good relationship <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/why-cardi-b-kept-stefon-diggs-baby-secret-parents-until-big-tv-reveal.html/">with her mother</a> now that she is an adult. They clashed a bit more in her adolescence, though. Cardi said her mother <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-knows-parenting-kids-mad-thinks-worth.html/">wanted to protect he</a>r as much as possible. She pushed back and wanted to be everything her mother didn’t want her to be.</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-cardi-b-said-she-wanted-to-be-a-different-person-than-her-mom-wanted-her-to-be">Cardi B said she wanted to be a different person than her mom wanted her to be</h2> <p id="par-2_24">While growing up, Cardi said that though she heard rap music from her neighbors, her mother never let her listen to it at home.</p> <p id="par-3_38">“My mom always wanted to keep me really childlike,” she told Mariah Carey in a conversation for <a href="https://www.interviewmagazine.com/music/cardi-b-gets-a-pep-talk-from-mariah-carey" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">Interview Magazine</a>. “She wanted me to listen to Barney and Disney music, so I was only interested in Barney and Disney.”</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" id="emb-1"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe title="Why Cardi B REFUSES to Hire a Nanny" width="925" height="520" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/ryboNU3BX5o?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></figure> <p id="par-4_16">When she discovered other artists, though, she wanted to do everything she could to emulate them. </p> <p id="par-5_75">“We used to go to my grandmother’s house, where they would always play BET and s***,” she said. “When I <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/music/missy-elliott-says-tweets-oops-oh-my-isnt-about-sex.html/">saw Missy Elliott</a> take off her head in a music video, I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, this is so strange. I want to do that when I grow up.’ And then I started seeing girls like Trina, and I was like, ‘She’s so sexy. I want to talk like that when I grow up.’”</p> <p id="par-6_16">Suddenly, she wanted to dress and behave in a way her mother may not have liked.</p> <p id="par-7_30">“I always wanted to be what my mom didn’t let me be,” she said. “I wanted to wear small shirts and have my belly out and wear little kitty heels.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-cardi-b-has-come-to-understand-her-mom-s-concerns-for-her">Cardi B has come to understand her mom’s concerns for her</h2> <p id="par-8_30">Cardi said her <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-mom-shamed-wap.html/">mother has accepted</a> her for the way she is now. The rapper understands that her mother’s concerns were for her own good while she was growing up.</p> <p id="par-9_55">“When I told my mom I was a stripper that really bothered her for a minute,” she said. “But now when she hears me saying grown s***, I don’t think she gives a f*** anymore. I think she didn’t want me to grow up so fast, because the kids around my neighborhood grew up fast.”</p> <p id="par-10_14">She wanted to protect her daughter from things she was already being exposed to. </p> <p id="par-11_22">“That’s why my mom was always scared,” she said. “There was teen pregnancy all around us. She was just being a mom.”</p> <h2 class="wp-block-heading" id="h-both-her-parents-have-helped-her-with-her-children">Both her parents have helped her with her children</h2> <p id="par-12_31">Now that Cardi has <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-revealed-frightening-reason-needs-24-7-security-kids.html/">children of her own</a>, she relies on her parents for help with them. Cardi said her mother was a great help when she had her first child.</p> <p id="par-13_54">“My mom has not left my side not one time,” she said in an Instagram video posted shortly after <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/the-one-lesson-cardi-b-wants-her-daughter-kulture-to-receive.html/">her daughter Kulture’s birth</a>. “This is her first grandkid. The last time she had a kid was 22 years ago, so this is all new to her again just as it is new to me.”</p> <figure class="wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio" id="emb-2"><div class="wp-block-embed__wrapper"> <iframe title="Cardi B Reveals the Truth About Her Kids, Wealth, and Staying Grounded on ‘The Jennifer Hudson Show’" width="925" height="520" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/stI1NK0IToI?feature=oembed" frameborder="0" allow="accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share" referrerpolicy="strict-origin-when-cross-origin" allowfullscreen></iframe> </div></figure> <div class="related-article related-article--simple"> <span class="related-article-flag">Related</span> <p class="related-article__title"> <a href="https://www.cheatsheet.com/news/cardi-b-asks-mean-fans-want-leave-man-f.html/"> Cardi B Asks ‘Mean’ Fans if They Want Her to ‘Leave My Man and F*** Yours’  </a> </p> </div> <p id="par-14_14">She felt grateful for the help both her parents were able to provide her.</p> <p id="par-15_40">“My dad, you know, he’s just running errands for me in New York,” she said. “To have that extra hand I’m just really grateful … I’m just sitting here like God, thank you so much for these great amazing parents.”</p>