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\n\tCardi B<\/a> is fed up with the hate Tyla<\/a> has received online.<\/p>\n \n\tDuring a recent X Spaces<\/a> session with fans, the Bronx rapper addressed how hard it is to be a celebrity during the social media age and used the South African pop star as an example.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cLook at Tyla,\u201d Cardi began after explaining how she felt body-shamed during one of her pregnancies. \u201cPeople been dragging the sh\u2013 out of Tyla and it\u2019s, like, the girl don\u2019t even f\u2014ing address or talk about nothing.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe added: \u201cI\u2019m starting to feel that people just don\u2019t like celebrities. It\u2019s like the only way that that people like celebrities [is] if you don\u2019t f\u2014ing say nothing at all. And they beat your energy and they beat your confidence, they beat you to the f\u2014ing ground.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tCardi then admitted that she grows tired of seeing \u201cthousands of videos of people talking sh\u2013 about you and again brought up the online vitriol spewed Tyla\u2019s way\u201d \u2014 though, she admitted she didn\u2019t know where the hate stems from.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cTo be honest with you, I don\u2019t even know the hate about it because I never really got into the details of what is the real hard-core thing,\u201d she said. \u201cHowever, all I do know is every single time I scroll down on my TikTok, there\u2019s a video of her and people are talking sh\u2013. And it\u2019s like, goddamn, what do you want her to f\u2014ing do, cut her f\u2014ing veins? Like, enough. Enough. I really think that\u2019s what ya be wanting.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tThe online hate Tyla has gotten goes back to a resurfaced TikTok from 2020<\/a> when she referred to herself as a \u201cColoured South African\u201d and her decision to not answer a question about the debates surrounding her ethnicity posed by Charlamagne Tha God<\/a> on The Breakfast Club<\/a>, which perhaps made things worse, according to a recent Variety<\/a> profile.<\/p>\n \n\tIn that same profile, she told the outlet that the situation she found herself in was confusing. \u201cThat [controversy] was really confusing for me,\u201d she admitted. \u201cI understood both sides of the story, but I was left asking, \u2018OK, but what do I do now?\u2019 When who you are is challenged, especially when it\u2019s all you\u2019ve ever known, it shakes you. You want to stand your ground, because if you don\u2019t, someone else will try to define it for you.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe also addressed choosing not to answer Charlamagne\u2019s question during a British Vogue<\/a> cover story earlier this year, essentially saying that she doesn\u2019t regret not answering it. \u201cMe choosing not to say anything, I\u2019m happy that I didn\u2019t,\u201d she revealed. \u201cI didn\u2019t want to explain my culture and something that is really important to me on a platform that is just going to be purposefully misconstrued. I\u2019ve explained it a lot of times before, but people took that and put words in my mouth. They said a whole bunch of things that I never said and ran with it.\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tShe then continued by trying to explain the different meaning the word \u201ccolored\u201d has in her native South Africa as opposed to its racist roots in the United States and admitted that she experienced a bit of a cultural shock when she came to America.<\/p>\n \n\t\u201cIf people really searched, they\u2019ll see that in South Africa we had a lot of segregation,\u201d she began. \u201cIt was bad for a lot of us. They just classified us. And that just so happens to be the name that the white people called us. They chose to call people that were mixed \u2018coloured\u2019. And I\u2019m not gonna lie, it was hard because all my life, obviously I knew \u2018I\u2019m Black\u2019 but also knew that \u2018I\u2019m coloured\u2019. So, when I went to America and people were like, \u2018You can\u2019t say that!\u2019 I was in a position where I was like, \u2018Oh, so what do I do? What\u00a0am\u00a0I then?\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n \n\tIn other Cardi B news, she announced<\/a> earlier this week that she will be releasing a new single from her highly anticipated upcoming album Am I the Drama? on Friday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n