Responding to the payola rumors, the "WAP" rapper chalked the payola rumors up to pure hate and speculation, saying, "It’s sad that when I win people gotta scramble with lies for my success. Like they ain’t saw everybody, people coming out Amazon trucks and ambulances dancing my shit."
After adding a slew of laughing emojis, Cardi continued to deny the payola allegations against her, saying, "They love to run with that 'Payola ' to make them feel better mind you I didn’t debute number 1 because of my low radio play and WAP barely made radio cause it was so explicit yet still made number 1."
Cardi also came with some receipts that showed that "Up" hasn't even been getting a lot of airplay in comparison to the other hits hovering around the top of the Billboard 100. On the matter, she wrote, "Look at the second slide look at my AirPlay ( radio) compare to other artist radio spins.WHEN YOU START WINNING THE STORIES START SPINNING!!! Imma adress all the hate on my album tho wait on it !!!"
Check out her Grammy performance of "Up" and "WAP" below.
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