Kanye West accuses Cardi B of being an ‘ILLUMINATI PLANT’ in resurfaced footage – and the rapper has already hit back

Kanye West suggested that Cardi B was an industry plant – specifically, ‘a plant by the Illuminati’ – in a clip of an unreleased 2018 documentary that leaked Sunday, prompting a response from WAP artist.

The 46-year-old Chicago native was heard in the footage saying that the career of the Bodak Yellow artist, 30, has been wholly sponsored and orchestrated by a larger enтιтy – not the result of an organic rise to fame.

‘Cardi B is a plant by the Illuminati,’ West said in the clip, adding that music industry exec Corey Gamble – the beau of his ex-mother-in-law Kris Jenner – is an operative for the CIA.

West said that Cardi B doesn’t ‘write her raps’ and is ‘just there to sound as ignorant as possible and then make songs like, “F*** them and get some money.”‘

West – who has largely been out of the limelight since making a series of anti-Semitic remarks late last year – said that Cardi B ‘has literally replaced Nicki Minaj’ and was ‘purposely’ positioned at the level of stardom she’s achieved.

Cardi B responded to West with his own words, tweeting, and subsequently deleting, a 2022 clip of West speaking highly of her and her talents in a clip with Hollywood Unlocked’s Jason Lee.

West said that he championed Cardi B – who he collaborated with on the 2022 track Hot S*** – from her time on the VH1 reality series Love & Hip-Hop: New York.

‘I always believed in her since she was on the show,’ West said in the clip, which Cardi B added a heart emoji on.

Cardi B is not the only successful star who has faced allegations of being an industry plant, as performers including H.E.R., Billie Eilish, Ice Spice and Katy Perry have also been the subjects of similar conjecture.

According to Urban Dictionary, an industry plant is defined as ‘an artist who has Major/Indie Label backing their movement but presents themselves as a “home grown start up” label to create a pseudo organic following.