CeeLo Apologizes To Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, And Nicki Minaj For Remarks
CeeLo Green is apologizing to Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Nicki Minaj after making contentious remarks about his fellow rappers in a recent interview.
The 45-year-old shared a statement on Instagram to address the “misunderstanding with a quote taken from an interview” he did earlier this week.
“I’m an advocate of artistic freedom and expression as well as a fan of Nicki, Cardi, and Meagan [SIC],” he wrote, going on to say he would “never disrespect them by any means.”
“I wholeheartedly apologize to each of them for the inconvenience they have been caused due to a snippet of my interview being used as a headline, and in turn creating controversy and disconnect between me and these ladies as well as their fans.”
CeeLo, whose given name is Thomas DeCarlo Callaway, spoke to Far Out magazine on Sunday about the music industry and his latest work.
In one part of the interview, he talked about Minaj as an artist and said: “You have the ‘Heads of State,’ like Nicki Minaj or someone who is up there in accolade: success, visibility, a platform to influence. Nicki could be effective in so many other constructive ways, but it feels desperate.”
He said that “attention is also a drug and competition is around,” calling attention to Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion and their new song, “WAP.”
The two “are all more or less doing similar salacious gesturing to kinda get into position. I get it, the independent woman and being in control, the divine femininity and sexual expression. I get it all,” he said, before asking: “It comes at what cost?”
Fans couldn’t help but call out the “Crazy” singer for calling out female rappers, but not holding “male rappers at the same status.”
Ceelo Green has the audacity to speak on Nicki but not hold male rappers at the same status
— rich™️ (@richswae) August 10, 2020
Ceelo Green is making comments about female artists to try to stay relevant and get some attention but his opinion is just as irrelevant as he is I don’t even know why we’re even talking about it 🥱
— KB (@_karolinebueno) August 12, 2020
so say you hate women ceelo just be honest men are allowed to rap explicitly about women and our bodies and then have mvs to match but the second a woman does it men lose their marbles pic.twitter.com/htwxNueJvc
— goo (@babybIog) August 11, 2020
Megan The Stallion also tweeted about the double standard amid fans addressing it, but did not address CeeLo’s remarks:
Lol dudes will scream “slob on my knob” word for word and crying abt WAP 😂 bye lil boy
— HOT GIRL MEG (@theestallion) August 11, 2020
Since it dropped over the weekend, “WAP” has made a splash on the internet with its raunchy lyrics.
Conservatives such as commentator Ben Shapiro and James P. Bradley, the Republican candidate for a heavily Democratic House district in the Los Angeles area, did some very public pearl-clutching about the song.
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Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion are what happens when children are raised without God and without a strong father figure. Their new "song" The #WAP (which i heard accidentally) made me want to pour holy water in my ears and I feel sorry for future girls if this is their role model!
— James P. Bradley (@BradleyCongress) August 7, 2020
As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved -- who apparently require a "bucket and a mop" -- get the medical care they require. My doctor wife's differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis.
— Ben Shapiro (@benshapiro) August 10, 2020
“WAP” is unquestionably a bop and continues to dominate the charts, so it doesn’t really matter what the haters say: Cardi and Megan Thee Stallion are still getting paid.
This article originally appeared on HuffPost and has been updated.