So, I gotta tell you about this whole Cardi B and Pooh Shiesty thing. It wasn't like I was actively looking for internet beef, you know? I was actually trying to get a feel for the current scene, just listening around, seeing what new artists were popping. Pooh Shiesty’s name kept coming up, that Memphis sound, people saying he's the real deal with his lyrics. So, I was checking out his stuff.
Then, bam, my feed just exploded one day. Pooh Shiesty apparently jumped into Cardi B’s Instagram Live. I think she was just chilling, talking to her fans, pregnant with her third kid and all. And this dude apparently commented something like, "I'm 5 mins away baby open the door." My first thought was, "Wow, bold move, man." Like, really bold, especially with Offset in the picture.
I actually went back and tried to find clips and see people's reactions. That became my little research project for the afternoon. It’s wild how fast stuff like that spreads. Everyone was talking about it, waiting for Cardi to clap back hard, 'cause you know Cardi, she doesn't usually hold back. But from what I saw, she just kinda… didn’t even acknowledge it. Kept her live going. That was interesting to me. Here’s this massive star, 'Bodak Yellow,' 'WAP,' all those hits, the female rapper with the most number-one singles, and she just swerved it.
And I thought about it. Cardi’s out here doing huge collabs, not just with Megan Thee Stallion for bangers like 'Bongos,' but even with people like Ed Sheeran and Rita Ora. She’s playing a different game, a global game. So, this Pooh Shiesty comment, as much as it got people talking, maybe to her it was just… noise. A blip. She’s got bigger fish to fry, you know?
It made me think about how these online interactions happen. Pooh Shiesty, he’s known for that "steely autobiographical detail," that Southern drawl, and he’s got his own buzz. Maybe it was just a spur-of-the-moment thing, maybe it was a calculated shot for clout, who knows? The internet eats that stuff up. People were saying Offset wasn't too happy, which, yeah, I wouldn't be either.
My whole "practice" of digging into this, it didn't really give me any magic answers. Just showed me how messy and public everything is for these folks. One minute you're trying to understand an artist's music, the next you're watching real-time social media drama unfold. It’s all part of the package now, I guess. You don’t just listen to the music; you kinda have to follow the whole circus. And sometimes, the best move, like Cardi seemingly showed, is to just not even buy a ticket to that particular show.
