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The feisty "I Like It" singer, who shot to fame
in the past two years, was responding in an Instagram post after
a video surfaced that was recorded three years ago in which she
spoke about going with men to a hotel with the expectation of
sex, and drugging and robbing them.
The video sparked a backlash on social media under the hashtag #survivingcardib,
with some users comparing her past actions with male singers who
have been accused of sexual misconduct against women.
In her Instagram posting on Tuesday, Cardi B, 26, said there
were "things in my past right or wrong that I felt I needed to
do to make a living."
"I'm a part of hip-hop culture where you can talk about where
you come from, talk about the wrong things you had to do to get
where you are," she added.
Cardi B, who won her first Grammy Award in February, has
previously spoken about working as a stripper for several years
from the age of 19.
The singer said she did not put her past behavior into her music
because "I'm not proud of it and feel a responsibility not to
glorify it. I made the choices that I did at the time because I
had very limited options."
Cardi B is married to fellow rapper Offset and the couple have a
nine-month-old daughter.
"All I can do now is be a better me for myself my family and my
future," she wrote.
(Reporting by Jill Serjeant, editing by G Crosse)
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