Cardi B Is Definitely the Drama, for Better or Worse

Several weeks before the rollout of her latest album, Am I the Drama?, Cardi B posed victoriously in front of a courthouse in Los Angeles. She’d been on trial for four days as the defendant in a $24 million civil lawsuit from a security guard who said that the rapper scratched and spat on her in an altercation outside of a doctor’s office in February 2018. “I did not touch that woman,” Cardi maintained; a jury ultimately ruled in the rapper’s favor. Throughout the trial, Cardi was very apparently determined to make the most of this irksome situation; to treat the proceedings as a sort of fashion week with a variety of bold courtroom looks; to speak oh so candidly both on the stand and on the steps; to reassert herself, in style. So, in the end, Cardi B stood before a bevy of microphones, wearing a $10,000 polka-dot suit by Valentino, and delivered some impassioned remarks about nuisance lawsuits against wealthy celebrities: “The next person to try to do a frivolous lawsuit against me, I’m going to countersue! ... I work hard for my money.”