#MeToo doesn t care about women in hip hop: Cardi B

Los Angeles March 21 (IANS) Singer Cardi B says the #MeToo movement doesn t care about women in hip hop.

She spoke about the movement in an interview with Cosmopolitan magazine reports dailymail.co.uk.

Cardi who started her career as a stripper explained her frustration saying when female rappers and video vixens speak out about harassment: "Nobody gives a f**k."

While the #MeToo movement has forced people from Hollywood s film and TV industry to look at a solution to its issues of sexual assault and harassment Cardi says she thinks hip hop artistes dancers and models are being left behind by the movement.

She said: "A lot of video vixens have spoke about this and nobody gives a f**k. When I was trying to be a vixen people were like You want to be on the cover of this magazine? Then they pull their d***s out. I bet if one of these women stands up and talks about it people are going to say So what? You re a ho. It don t matter ."

She feels "the producers and directors they re not woke they re scared".

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