“Ten different looks and my looks all kill,” Cardi B raps on her music, “Money.”
By swapping wigs and serving candor, the Grammy-winning artist appears to have carried out simply that in her testimony this week in a civil trial in Los Angeles County.
The case stems from a 2018 incident involving plaintiff Emani Ellis, a former constructing safety guard who has sued Cardi B for alleged assault throughout an interplay between the ladies within the hallway of a medical workplace the place Ellis was employed.
The artist, who was pregnant on the time and on her method to see her obstetrician, has denied the allegation. Ellis is searching for punitive and different damages that embody medical bills for a minimize to her face.
Cardi B’s courtroom testimony, which has been live-streamed by Court TV and recirculated throughout social media, has introduced new consideration to the 7-year-old case.
Fans of Cardi B are removed from shocked, as she’s identified to be slick with her phrases each on and off the microphone.
Here are three exchanges throughout the trial which have caught attention online.
While being questioned about their interplay, Cardi B was requested to testify in regards to the language she directed towards Ellis, particularly “the F-word.”
She didn’t hesitate to recall what she mentioned.
“I said b***h get the f**k out my face. Why are you in my face?” Cardi B testified. “Why are you recording me? Ain’t you supposed to be security?”
She appeared confused when she was requested to repeat the phrases to Ellis.
You need me to say it to her face?” Cardi B responded.
Her lawyer raised an objection to that request, which was sustained by the choose.
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The hip-hop star testified that although she and Ellis exchanged phrases in 2018, their interplay didn’t get bodily.
“She couldn’t get a scratch from me because I didn’t touch her,” Cardi mentioned on the stand in her second day of testimony.
“She didn’t touch me,” Cardi mentioned. “She was going to touch me, but she didn’t get to touch me.”
Cardi B was then-four months pregnant with her first baby, daughter Kulture, whom she shares with fellow rapper, Offset.
When requested if she was disabled by the being pregnant, Cardi B had a fast response.
“At that moment, uh, when you’re pregnant, I’m very disabled,” she responded. “You want me to tell you things I can’t do?”
That reply elicited laughter from among the individuals within the courtroom.
After asking Cardi B if she had”black hair, blonde hair or totally different coloration hair” on the date of the alleged incident, Ellis’s lawyer requested about her “real hair.”
“Yesterday you had black hair, short hair. Today it’s blonde and long. Which one is your real hair? Or are they both real?” the lawyer requested throughout his cross-examination.
Cardi B laughed earlier than she responded, “They’re wigs.”
“Okay. Sorry, I didn’t know that. It’s a good wig today, then,” the lawyer replied.
Cardi B has at instances appeared exasperated with the road of questioning.
When requested if she was “at a high level of anger” when she and Ellis have been allegedly arguing and “chest to chest,” Cardi B testified that she was extra at “a high level of concern.”
She defined why she was “very concerned” when requested by Ellis’s lawyer.
“Because I’m pregnant and this girl is about to f**king beat my a**,” Cardi B testified. “Hello?”
The trial is anticipated to resume subsequent week.