Cardi B defends an old video on stealing men's "to survive" & # 39;

Pop culture, do you have to kill all the heroes? Add Cardi B to the list of celebrities we love, but whose past is troubling.

The rapper on fire is facing a recent revelation that she drugged and stole men that she took to hotels at the time when she was a stripper. She made this request three years ago during an Instagram Live session, but someone dug up the recording a few days ago.

"I had to undress, I had to go," Oh yes, you want … me? "", She yells in the video, on the Instagram account of Hip Hop Ratchet. "Yeah, yeah, yeah, let's go back to this hotel." And I drugged (men), and I stole them. This is what I used to do.

Cardi B was trying to explain that she deserved and deserved her success and that "nothing has been handed to me".

The video earned him many social media reviews, including the #SurvivingCardiB hashtag invoking R.Kelly. The behavior worthy of Bill Cosby's prison was mentioned. Many people have called for a double standard, saying she would be in court or in prison for these acts if she were a man.

In the beginning, Cardi bounced on Twitter for a short break, but then went on the offensive Tuesday, explaining what she had said at the time, what she meant to say and what she could do about it now.

"I talked about things I had to do in the past, good or bad, that I felt I had to do to make a living," she wrote in a post on Instagram. "I never pretend to be perfect or a perfect world with a perfect past, I always say my truth, I still have my (past)."

The culture from which she came – hip-hop – allows people to speak honestly about their origins and the bad things they have to do, said Cardi, but she noted that she had refrained from stage these parts of his past in his music.

"There are rappers who glorify the violence of murder, drugs and theft. The crimes they felt they had to do to survive. I never even put these things in my music because I'm not proud of it and I feel it's our job not to glorify her, "said the Grammy star, who never hesitated to talk about his past as a stripper.

"The men I talked to in my life were men I dated with someone who was conscious, willing and aware," she added, confused. "Whether or not they were bad choices by the time I did what I had to do to survive."

"All I can do now is to be better for myself, my family and my future," she said in the ticket legend, where the debate naturally continued .

Cardi B gave birth last July to a little girl, Kulture, whose father is the occasional husband of the artist, rapper Offset. She will write a book about her life and was chosen in the movie Jennifer Lopez Hustlers, about a group of former strip club workers who "banded together to turn the tide" against their wealthy Wall Street customers. – Christie D'Zurilla / LA Times / Tribune News Service