Cardi B Fires Back at Department of Homeland Security With Jab About the Epstein Files

Cardi B jokingly threatened to “jump” ICE agents if they popped out at her Little Miss Drama Tour shows, and the Department of Homeland Security responded to the Grammy-winning rapper on X on Thursday (Feb. 12).

“As long as she doesn’t drug and rob our agents, we’ll consider that an improvement over her past behavior,” the DHS wrote.

Cardi B kicked off her Little Miss Drama Tour at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, Calif., on Wednesday (Feb. 11), which saw her condemn United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement after giving a Selena impression to fire up the Latinos in the crowd.

“B—h! If ICE comes in here, we gon’ jump they a—es,” she said, which drew applause. “I’ve got some bear mace in the back! They ain’t taking my fans, b—h.”

Cardi B fired back on Thursday afternoon, bringing up the files surrounding serial rapist and pedophile Jeffrey Epstein, who died by suicide in August 2019.

“If we talking about drugs let’s talk about Epstein and friends drugging underage girls to rape them,” she clapped back on X. “Why yall don’t wanna talk about the Epstein files?”

Homeland Security’s jab at Cardi calls back to her stripper past, which saw her admit to drugging and robbing clients when she worked as a dancer in the 2010s.

In March 2019, Cardi released a statement addressing the backlash. The Billboard Hot 100-topping artist opened up about her past practices as a stripper to make a living, which came from a resurfaced 2016 video that was going viral at the time, featuring the Bronx native’s admissions.

“I had to go strip, I had to go, ‘Oh yeah, you want to f—k me? Yeah, yeah, yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n—as up, and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do,” she admitted.

With fans expressing their dismay, Cardi attempted to clarify the viral clip on social media. “So I’m seeing on social media that a live I did 3 years ago has popped back up,” she wrote in 2019. “A live where I talked about things I had to do in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to do make a living… I never claim to be perfect or come from a perfect world wit a perfect past I always speak my truth — I always own my s—t.”

The “WAP” rapper returns to the stage this weekend when she brings the Little Miss Drama Tour to Las Vegas on Friday night (Feb. 13) and Los Angeles on Sunday (Feb. 15).

This article was first published by Billboard U.S.