A New York City encounter between Cardi B and Univision's El Gordo y la Flaca, in which the Spanish-language pop culture news show seemingly tried to interview the artist's father on the street, resulted in no such sudden interview.
In a clip of the moment shared by Univision on YouTube Thursday, Cardi is seen being approached by Gelena Solano. Quickly, Cardi tells the news crew not to put her father on TV, and the exchange escalates from there.
Cardi later addressed the incident in an Instagram Stories update, per People en Español, noting that she loves the Univision show but found Solano's approach to be unprofessional.
"Today, this woman, right, I'm literally taking my daughter out the car and as soon as I turn around, this woman put a camera in my face and she's got a mic in my mouth," she said. Cardi also pointed out that she's had incidents in the past in which her family ultimately felt uncomfortable with social media exposure, hence the hesitance to have them on camera.
"I'm not going to call her a bitch but I really want to call her a bitch," Cardi said in the Instagram clip. "She got in my dad's way . . . That's when I came out and I started bucking at her because I just told you I don't want my fucking parents on camera. Why the fuck, why the fuck are you not listening?"
As for the unrelated bystander who is also seen making comments toward Cardi in the Univison clip, Cardi said he was a "drunk ass Dominican guy, this drunk ass man" who "bumped her" and said to get out of the way. That secondary encounter and argument, she added, was the fault of the reporter's initial impromptu interview attempt.
Solano has also addressed all this, saying in a statement Thursday afternoon that she wouldn't record a baby without the parents' consent and disputed Cardi's characterization of how things went down, though she offered an apology "if she felt attacked" during the encounter.
"I asked her how she was, how she was feeling, and thanked her for being part of the Dominican Republic and defending Dominicans and she tells me that she is in no condition to talk," Solano, who also pointed out her 15-year history in the pop culture news industry, told People en Español.
