Cardi B and Offset are officially off.
The "Bodak Yellow" emcee broke the news to her fans in December 2018, waxing poetic about
remaining friends and co-parenting.
Some think the split is a prank to sell records.
Others claim their problems run deep.
Let's dish on the real reasons Cardi B and Offset broke up.
"You know what, now, you, that's a tricky question"
Three's company
TMZ reported that Offset attempted to cheat on Cardi B with not one, but two women at
the same time.
Text messages allegedly exchanged between Offset and Instagram models Summer Bunni and
Cuban Doll leaked just before the split announcement.
In the texts, Offset allegedly propositions the two women for a threesome... minus Cardi.
"Hayoo!"
What's even worse is that the alleged text exchange reportedly occurred in late June
2018, shortly before Cardi gave birth to her and Offset's daughter, Kulture.
The alleged Cardi wannabe
According to TMZ, it may not have been Offset's alleged cheating that prompted Cardi B to
call time on their romance, it may have had more to do with the woman with whom he stepped
out.
Sources claim Cardi knew Offset had a habit of hitting up other women, but the "Bodak
Yellow" rapper was supposedly peeved that he was linked specifically to Cuban Doll,
who has been accused of trying to bite Cardi's rap style in an effort to boost her own profile
Cuban Doll denied the hookup allegations, tweeting via Hollywood Life,
"I don't know Offset.
He could tell you himself, I don't know him.
Never had his number, never in my life texted that man."
Offset also denied the allegations.
Summer Bunni admits an affair
For her part, Summer Bunni admitted that she'd gotten far too close to the MC and offered
a seemingly heartfelt apology to Cardi B, via TMZ, saying,
"I have not messed with Offset since he's had his baby [with Cardi]…
I didn't know how serious this marriage was…
I never wanted to break up a happy home…
I'm very sorry that this has happened…"
She didn't trust him
In October 2017, a month after Cardi and Offset secretly married, TMZ reported that Cardi
announced she was single in an Instagram story.
However, almost immediately afterward, she posted another update saying she overreacted.
The Cut and The Shade Room both pointed out that video footage of Offset being intimate
with another woman leaked in December 2017, but that the footage was actually from September
of that year, which may well have explained why Cardi briefly cut him loose in October.
"Certain things just be so outta line..."
"Yeah."
"...or like certain things that, it's just like, as a human being, it's just hard to
handle."
As a result of Offset's alleged history of cheating, a source told E! News,
"Cardi will always love Offset, but ultimately lost trust in their relationship."
Did Cardi cheat too?
But before you feel too sorry for Cardi, keep in mind that she may have fooled around behind
his back, too.
She told Cosmo in March 2018,
"None of y'all b------ going to hug me to sleep and clean the tears off my face, so
let me deal how I want to deal with it.
It's not right, what he f------ did, but people don't know what I did, 'cause I ain't no angel."
"Sometimes I apologize for who I am…"
"Do you, why?"
"...not for who I am, but certain things"
Too much baby mama drama
Cardi is the fourth woman to have a child by Offset, a fact that's not lost on the rapper.
She told Rolling Stone,
"People want to make fun of me, saying I'm the fourth baby mom, [but] I know I'm not
having a baby with a s----y a-- man."
"Oh my gosh, I'm having a baby y'all."
But even after Offset and Cardi got engaged, his drama with the mothers of his other children
didn't seem fully resolved.
Rolling Out reported that after hearing of Offset and Cardi's baby news, Oriel Jamie,
the mother of Offset's son, Kody, posted on Instagram:
"Congrats to my son daddy and his stepmother whom he have yet to meet.
Hopefully he at least get an invite to the wedding."
Mixing business with pleasure
Offset made some interesting comments about Cardi in a November 2018 interview with The
New York Times.
After she sold over $10 million in Fashion Nova merch in three hours, he said,
"… I'd seen her potential, her vision, her grind.
Whatever she does, she's going to master it.
She's like me."
"As soon as he saw me, he just pushed me to his section, and he was just talking to me
and I was like oh my god, this guy."
Seeing as how Cardi is one of the biggest rappers in the game right now, she definitely
boosts Offset's public profile.
So, one has to wonder if she felt used.
He said,
"She brings excitement and pressure to me, but I like that…
She's No. 1, so every time I'm hitting the charts, I've got to be Top 10."
A source told Page Six the couple tried to stick it out purely for the cash flow, alleging:
"…after a while, it was more for business.
They're both very street, and they have smart people who are savvy and made it known that
[being together] is a smart business arrangement for everyone…
They played it up for as long as they could."
Not just a publicity stunt
Cardi has heard the rumors that she and Offset split as a publicity stunt, and she's also
listened to the talk that their relationship was fake.
And on December 9th, 2018, on Instagram Live, she set the record straight, saying,
"I wouldn't put my family in a bad name for no f------ publicity…
Like, my relationship was never fake…
You think I got f------ pregnant, could have ruined my career for f------- publicity?"