Cardi B opted not to attend this evening's Grammy Awards ceremony in Las Vegas. Some fans gave her flak for her decision, given Cardi was nominated for Best Rap Performance for
“Up.” (She lost to Baby Keem and Kendrick Lamar for their song “Family Ties.”) Their comments led Cardi to tweet a candid response about why she didn't attend the ceremony, then delete her Twitter entirely.
Before she deactivated her account, she wrote at 9:04 P.M., “I’m deleting my twitter but On God I hate this fuckin dumbass fan base .You got the slow dumbasses dragging my kids all cause y’all though I was going to the Grammys and I didn’t the fuck ? When the fuck I hinted I was going ?just fuvkin stupid I can’t I needs to protect myself.”
As of 9:37 P.M., Cardi's account is deactivated:
Cardi is not the only nominee to skip tonight's ceremony by any means. Selena Gomez also skipped, and Taylor Swift and Kanye West, both Album of the Year nominees, have yet to be seen at the ceremony either.
Cardi spoke with Mariah Carey for Interview magazine last February about what an average day has been like for her amid the coronavirus pandemic. She mentioned the role of Twitter in her life at the time.
“During the pandemic, the average day is me waking up with a lot of ideas in my head, so I’m always calling my team, trying to make whatever I have in my head happen, or I’m wondering about a business venture so I call my lawyer,” she said. “And sometimes I go on Twitter, I go to blogs, I see what’s going on in the world. I try to stay off it most of the time, because sometimes it’s such a bad vibe. I usually wake up around noon and my daughter wakes up at 3:00 p.m., so I really have no time to just work, work, work, work.”
At the moment, it's unclear whether Cardi's quitting the platform is temporary or permanent.