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Cardi B is profiting off of her viral appearance in court.
The rapper, 32, used her latest outfit to show off her baby bump, promote her new album, Am I the Drama? and give a cheeky nod to the memes that spawned from court attendances in August.
The outfit consisted of a white T-shirt with Cardi’s face inside a heart — a still from her wearing a platinum blonde wig in the courtroom, on the verge of rolling her eyes — and “Am I the drama? If you think I’m here to play with you goddam it I’m not,” in hot pink text beneath her face.
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Cardi paired the tongue-in-cheek shirt, which offered a hint of her lower belly, with tiny denim cut-off shorts. She rolled the waistband of the shorts down and accessorized with oversized gold bangles, an edgy camouflage-print trucker hat and pointed knee-high heeled platform boots in a brown snakeskin print.
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The shirt, made by Other Her and sold by Revolve, is one of many in the merch collection that refers to Cardi’s court appearances. Another shirt in the collection has simple pink text that reads, “When I’m pregnant, I’m very disabled.”
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The phrase refers to the rapper’s Aug. 27 court date, when lawyer Ron A. Rosen Janfaza — who represented Emani Ellis in the assault case, in which she sued the rapper for $24 million after allegedly attacking her following a 2018 obstetrician appointment — asked Cardi if she could have scratched Ellis’ face if she wanted to.
“But I didn’t — but I didn’t because I had a baby inside me,” Cardi told the lawyer. Rosen Janfaza then asked, “Are you disabled, yes or no?” to which the rapper replied, “At that moment, when you’re pregnant, I’m very disabled. You want me to tell you things I can’t do?”
Another shirt in the collection features the phrase “No, I was calling her a bitch” in plain black text, which referred to another moment between Rosen Janfaza and the Grammy winner in court.
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The conversation turned to Ellis’ size, when Cardi explained that Ellis — who works as a security guard — is “absolutely” bigger than her.
Rosen Janfaza told the “WAP” rapper, “I don’t agree with that. What is your basis? Are you saying that she’s physically bigger, she’s taller?” Cardi noted that she was 130 pounds “at that time,” and the lawyer later asked if Cardi was calling his client fat. “No, I was calling her a bitch,” she responded.
The shirts in the collection range from $45 to $50, though Cardi’s shirt is nearly sold out online.
Cardi was cleared of assault and later warned those trying to falsely make money off of her. “I work all day and I work hard for my money, for my kids, for the people that I take care of,” she told reporters following the trial, according to BBC. “So don’t you ever think that you’re going to sue me, and I’m just going to settle.”
