Cardi B has condemned a recent incident where a prank caller falsely contacted child protective services (CPS) to report concerns about her children's safety, triggering an unwarranted investigation.
The 32-year-old rapper, speaking from a hospital bed during an Instagram Live session on Monday night, did not hold back in expressing her anger over the situation.
Plans to take legal steps
She described the prank as "twisted" and said it was deeply distressing for her family. Cardi B, known offstage as Belcalis Cephus, made it clear she plans to take legal steps, announcing her intention to "sue the person behind this anonymous call."
"So I wanna make this very f**king clear and I can't even breathe right now," she said.
"Motherf**kers have taken s**t too f**king far when you mess with my f**king kids.
"I swear to you I'm gonna get to the f**king bottom bottom of it, ok? For you mother**kers to do a little f**king prank call.
"For the Child Protective Services to come to my f**king house? Not my house, my gated mansion at 11 p.m. while my children are sleeping because there's an anonymous call that there been going on that, that my kids have been getting abused and beaten. Are you f**king dumb?
"This is when the pranks start getting too far. You f**king assholes think that s**t is funny and it's not funny.
"We're the only colored people in my neighborhood completely and for mother**kers to pop up in my house with cops and child protective services because you mother**kers wanna do an anonymous call involving my children... I promise you this, I'm gonna sue CPS for f*king coming to my house at whatever the f**k time it is.
"I'm gonna get to the bottom of this. I'm gonna hire the best private investigator in the whole f**king country because y'all take joking and y'all take s**t a little too far," she continued.
"Play with my motherhood or with my ex-husband's fatherhood," she said of her ex-husband Offset, adding that their kids are off limits.
"We don't play that s**t. My kids live great. My kids have never been touched, never gotten hit no matter how annoying they are. I never hit my kids."