Cardi B has hit back at the reporter who claims she was promoting violence. Doug Kolk of the KTLA entertainment ran a segment using part of the rapper’s Instagram video, where Cardi addressed the protests across the country following George Floyd’s death. Kolk claimed that the Grammy Award-winning rapper was using her “massive platform to promote the violence.”
“People looting and going extremely outraged, you know, it makes me feel like, ‘Yes! Finally! Finally motherf*kers gonna hear us now. Yeah!” Cardi can be heard saying in the aired clip. “As much as people is so against it, at this point I feel like I’m not against it, even though it do scare me.”
However, her Instagram video was cut short before she could finish her thoughts. But in the non-televised clip, she went on to encourage her followers to vote in the upcoming election. “Another way for the people to take power… I don’t want to make everything political but it is what it is. It’s by voting,” she added.
Moreover, after she heard her words misquoted, Cardi B took to Twitter to call out the reporter. “@DougKolk why your no lip square head having ass ain’t put the part were I said to vote ? You cottage cheese breath having bitch,” she tweeted. “hy don’t you post how a conservative Christian trump supporter post my adress and encourage people to loot my home(which by the way he goin to jail).”
@DougKolk why your no lip square head having ass ain’t put the part were I said to vote ? You cottage cheese breath having bitch.Why don’t you post how a conservative Christian trump supporter post my adress and encourage people to loot my home(which by the way he goin to jail ) https://t.co/YDN6pCvL9C
— Cardi B (@iamcardib) June 2, 2020
Meanwhile, her reaction has prompted an apology from Kolk. “I apologize to @iamcardib if I took her words out of context,” tweeted Doug Kolk. “I respect her for using her platform to connect with people during these difficult times and it was wrong of me to not let her full voice be heard. I will make sure that is corrected during my next segment.”
I apologize to @iamcardib if I took her words out of context.
I respect her for using her platform to connect with people during these difficult times and it was wrong of me to not let her full voice be heard. I will make sure that is corrected during my next segment— Doug Kolk (@DougKolk) June 2, 2020
Again, KTLA equally aired a segment, including an apology from Kolk. “I recognize now how I misconstrued her words,” Kolk said. “I ask Cardi and her faithful fan base for forgiveness, and let this serve as a learning experience for me, not only as a journalist but as a human being.”
