Cardi B faced heavy scrutiny following the recent release of her Billboard charting single, “WAP.”

Prior to the single release, Cardi enjoyed a well-earned break from music and turned her attention to politics. Still, as fans grew anxious about the star’s lack of music releases, rumors began to spread that her record label had grown tired of her.

“Throughout this [break] people was making rumors, like, ‘Oh, she’s having problems with her label, her label is shelving her, they’re getting more female talent,’ and the it’s like, no, they’re never tired of me. That’s one thing,” she said on Sirius XM.

Cardi makes a comparison between her brief hiatus and those of her male peers.

“Female rappers, y’all, they are always in mad pressure,” she explained. “If you don’t have a super crazy smash, it’s like oh, you flop, flop flop. The song could be like two-times platinum and it’s still flop, flop, flop. You’re always under pressure, and I feel like it’s not fair. I feel like there’s male artists who go two years without putting a f*cking song out and they don’t go, ‘Oh, you’re irrelevant. It’s over for you.’ Me, I didn’t put out songs for nine months and it’s like, ‘Oh, she’s irrelevant. She’s over. She’s a flop. We told you that.'”

2020 has been a bit of a mixed bag for the megastar. While her single “WAP” featuring Houston rapper continues to dominate the charts here and abroad, she recently filed for divorce from her husband Offset, after three years of marriage.

“Nothing crazy out of this world happened, sometimes people really do grow apart. I been with this man for four years. I have a kid with this man, I have a household with this man…sometimes you’re just tired of the arguments and the build-up. You get tired sometimes and before something happens, you leave,” she said at the time to fans via Instagram Live.