Soon after, during a Migos interview with Tim Westwood, Offset only offered a playful smirk on the subject of Cardi B, while the rest of the group laughed. “Shout out Cardi B,” said Migos member Quavo. Earlier that month, Westwood received the same silent treatment when he asked Offset about his relationship to the Bronx rapper.

Cardi B wrapped up her incredible year with the release of her single “Bartier Cardi,” making sure to reference her fiancee Offset in the lyrics: “Cardi put the p—y on Offset/Cartier, Cardi B brain on Offset.”

Cardi B released the single “Be Careful With Me,” that would later appear on her Invasion of Privacy album. While the entire song addresses the ups and downs of their relationship, in the chorus, the rapper gives a clear warning to — who else could it be? — Offset: “Be careful with me/do you know what you doin’?/Whose feelings that you hurtin’ and bruisin’?/You gon’ gain the whole world/But is it worth the girl that you’re losin’?”

After months of denying pregnancy rumors, Cardi announced that she was in fact, pregnant with Offset’s baby. She also took the stage on Saturday Night Live to perform “Be Careful With Me” in a dazzling white gown, accentuating her now-huge baby bump.

Rolling Stone‘s June cover featured pregnant Cardi with Offset kissing her belly alongside the caption, “Cardi B & Offset: A Hip Hop Love Story.”

Cardi and Offset French kissed and made up ahead of the 61st Grammy Awards, where she was nominated for five awards, including album of the year. She eventually became the first female singer to win best rap album with Invasion of Privacy.

“Babe, I can’t breathe,” she exclaimed to Offset, whom she brought on stage for her acceptance speech. “You, husband, thank you. Nah, serious, because he was like, ‘You gonna do this album, girl. We gonna have this baby. We gonna make this album.’”

In support of his debut studio album Father of Four, Offset brought out wifey for his outdoor performance of “Clout” on Jimmy Kimmel Live!

In her January 2020 cover story interview, the “I Do” rapper publicly set the record straight for the first time why she stayed with Offset despite the cheating scandals.

“When me and my husband got into our issues—you know, he cheated and everything—and I decided to stay with him and work together with him, a lot of people were so mad at me; a lot of women felt disappointed in me,” Cardi said. “But it’s real-life sh–. If you love somebody and you stop being with them, and you’re depressed and social media is telling you not to talk to that person because he cheated, you’re not really happy on the inside until you have the conversation. Then, if you get back with them, it’s like, how could you? You let all of us down. People that be in marriages for years, when they say till death do us part, they not talking about little arguments like if you leave the fridge open. That’s including everything.”

Cardi also explained how priests were involved in their reconciliation process, which she believes concerns no one else except for the two of them. “Everybody has issues. I believe in forgiveness. I prayed on it. Me and my husband, we prayed on it. We had priests come to us,” she continued. “And we just came to an understanding like, bro, it’s really us against the world. He has my back for everything, I have his back for everything, so when you cheat, you’re betraying the person that has your back the most. Why would you do that? We have come to a clear understanding. For me, monogamy is the only way. I’ll beat your a– if you cheat on me.”

Cardi gave birth to the couple’s second child, Wave Set Cephus, on Sept. 4, 2021, and seven months after his birth, the couple revealed the name and showed his face for the first time.

In the caption to the post, Cardi tacked on a trio of emojis that included a dinosaur, crashing wave and teddy bear. Offset also posted a pic with their son’s name, in which Wave is again staring off adorably at someone off camera while chilling in his baby bath. He is, of course, rocking a neck full of chains, including a custom piece made up of a diamond-encrusted wave — featuring the child’s name in jewels — adorned with a cute blue shark on an orange surfboard shooting the tube.

Over on Twitter, Cardi revealed that when Offset suggested the name Wave, “I was sold! THAT HAD TO BE HIS NAME!”

Cardi B stopped by the premiere of The Jason Lee Show and opened up about her relationship with Offset and how they worked through a rough patch in their marriage.

“Me and Offset, we was not seeing eye to eye. This was, like, the same year that I filed for divorce and everything,” the rapper told host and close pal Jason Lee. “The main thing that was really bothering me, I’m gonna let him say it himself … I want him to say it because I feel like that’s really part of his story.

“The main thing that I wanted him to stop and everything, he stopped and he changed. And it showed me that he wanted to change for me,” she continued. 

Cardi also reflected on discovering she was pregnant with daughter Kulture when she and the Migos rapper “wasn’t on really good terms.”

“And I was so scared,” she said. “I was scared to tell Atlantic, I was scared to tell my team because we had worked so hard. I had worked so hard and everything and I’m like, ‘Oh my gosh, like, what’s gonna happen after this?’ I just had this feeling, like, it’s going to be OK.”