Cardi B shares expletive-laden rant about grocery prices — and people agree

Cardi B The rising cost of groceries is a major issue.

After questioning why her local lettuce prices had risen, the rapper posted a PSA.

“Naaaaaaaaaaaaaaag grocery shopping prices are ridiculous now. You might as much as to eat outside! The rapper first tweeted January 3.

She followed up with a tweet. second one that read in part, “why lettuce cost 6 dollars where I live at?”

On Jan. 4, after reading over peoples’ replies to her tweets, she posted an expletive-laden rant and captioned it “PSA.”

“Let me tell you something, when I be complaining about food prices and y’all motherf—— be like, ‘Ain’t you rich? Why you complaining about lettuce, why you complaining about this?’” she began. “That just goes to show me when you become successful, when you have money, you’re gonna f——-, you’re gonna go broke soon because you’re not budgeting.”

Cardi said that she receives a summary of how much money she spends each week. So when she noticed that she was spending more for groceries, she wanted to know.

“I went to a supermarket, I’m seeing that everything tripled up,” she said, adding that lettuce was “like $2 a couple months ago” and now it’s around $7.

“Because if I think that s— is crazy, I can only imagine what middle class people or people in the hood are motherf—— thinking,” she said. “So yes, I’m going to say something.”

She ended her video by saying that she has “a big plan” and wants the people responsible with the rising prices to do something.

Cardi was receptive to many people’s opinions.

“Love this!!!” actor Caroline Williams wrote, adding, “And I should budget more responsibly, too!”

Another person wrote, “When you had to struggle on the way up and you appreciate how hard you had to work to get there and keep as humble as you can to stay there! Everyone should know their budget and see what’s happening to our country.”

“I’m with you Cardi. This is what I was saying. These people are paying for food. I can but how are single Moms and hard working families,” added another.

Another user thanked Cardi for using her platform “to address the real issues, real Americans, hard working folks, who are struggling to make ends meet and provide for their families. Good job @iamcardib thank you 😊”

When someone wrote that prices won’t change because of her, she replied, “Not necessarily cause of me but if we bring enough awareness to inflation you never know.”

September NBC News It was reported that during the 12-months period, grocery prices jumped The highest since 1979, rising by 13.5%

There were many food categories. double-digit increasesThis includes eggs, which increased by 40%, margarine, by 38%, flour, and 23% respectively.

Lettuce NBC Bay Area In December, it was reported that the Salinas Valley virus caused the increase in lettuce prices. Low production affected farmers’ crop, with Bruce Babcock, agricultural economist at UC Riverside, telling the station, “A case of romaine is $75 dollars now and last January it was $25 so that’s almost a tripling of prices at the wholesale level.”

A head of iceberg sold for almost $6, and fast-food restaurants stopped serving it temporarily.

This article was first published in TODAY.com