Cardi B Confirmed Her Breakup With Offset On Instagram

Cardi and Offset were first officially linked when they released their collaboration track "Lick.” The track came out on Jan. 20 as part of Cardi B's Gangsta B*tch Music Vol. 2 album.

Videos surfaced of Cardi and Offset at the Super Bowl in 2017, sparking rumors that they may be more than collaborators.

"Around Super Bowl time I told my publicist to tell him, because I was very shy, 'Listen, if we gonna go on a public date together, you cannot make me look like a dumb-*ss after this.' I never wanted to date a rapper because I would hate to look crazy in public," she later told GQ of the time leading up to their first date.

On Feb. 14, 2017, Cardi B made their romance IG-official when she posted a since-deleted video of her and her "bae" to Instagram, per BET.

Despite the telling IG post, in a March 2017 interview with Fader, Cardi B denied any sort of romance. “I’m not saying I’m dating an Atlanta guy," she said as a direct reference to Offset.

Cardi wasn't the only one keeping quiet. When asked about relationship rumors during an interview with Tim Westwood in April 2017, Offset responded with just a smirk.

Despite keeping their public commentary to a minimum, the couple made their second public appearance at a Met Gala afterparty that May.

Although their fans wouldn't realize this until almost a year later, Cardi B eventually announced that she and Offset secretly tied the knot in an extremely small ceremony in September 2017.

In the middle of an October 2017 show in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Offset proposed to Cardi B mid-performance. Although they were *actually* already married at the time, the public didn’t even know for sure that they were dating.

According to Newsweek, rumors of Offset's cheating started after an explicit video of the rapper with another woman surfaced on the internet in January 2018.

Although it was unclear when the video was shot, sources maintained that it happened while he was with Cardi B. Newsweek also reported that Cardi addressed the video at a show, saying she would not get married if he got caught cheating again. (At this point, they were already married.)

Cardi B defended their relationship in a March 2018 interview with Cosmopolitan. “It’s like everybody is coming down my neck,” she said. “Like, ‘Why are you not leaving him? You have low self-esteem.’ I don’t have low self-esteem. B*tch, I know I look good. I know I’m rich, I know I’m talented. I know I could get any man I want — any basketball player, football player. But I want to work out my sh*t with my man, and I don’t got to explain why. I’m not your property. This is my life.”

She added, "Since when are all these women dating pastors and deacons? I’m going to take my time, and I’m going to decide on my decision. None of these b*tches is going to eat my p*ssy at the end of the day. None of y’all b*tches going to hug me to sleep and clean the tears off my face, so let me deal how I want to deal with it. It’s not right, what he f*cking did — but people don’t know what I did, ’cause I ain’t no angel.”

After publicly addressing the cheating rumors, Cardi released a track that seemed to be about the Offset sitch.

The song has some choice lyrics for her spouse, including: "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'?"

Cardi B announced that she was pregnant with her and Offset’s first child mid-performance on Saturday Night Live.

In an April 2018 interview with GQ, Cardi B spoke about the cheating rumors, explaining they both were dealing with a lack of trust when they started seeing each other.

She explained, “For a long time, we was in love with each other but we didn't really trust in each other. It was like a competition of who's gonna hit each other up first. I don't want to hit him up first; he will hit me up first. People used to put things in my head: 'He gonna leave you. He be f*cking with mad b*tches.' People used to put things in his head: 'Cardi, she's a dog. Don't trust her.’”

Cardi added, “We never really trusted each other because I always feel like he could get any girl he wants — what makes me think he's gonna want me? I think he felt the same way.”

But in that same interview, Cardi B opened up about how Offset makes her life better. "He's so attending in my business," she said. "I don't really know the music business too well, so I always feel like people taking advantage of me. He's always making sure that I'm well taken care of or that I learn something."

After the news was leaked by TMZ, Cardi B came clean on Twitter and admitted she and Offset had already tied the knot.

On July 10, 2018, Cardi\and Offset welcomed their first baby, Kulture Kiari Cephus. Per TMZ, their daughter’s name was a tribute to Offset, whose real name is Kiari Cephus.

Cardi continued to talk about the cheating controversy in interviews. "When I got married with my dude, we still had a lot of doubts, because our relationship is not like everybody's," she told W in October 2018.

According to her, their careers as musical artists played a role in their relationship struggles. "He was always traveling, and I was always traveling. We're artists. So I used to see him, like, twice a week, and, you know, he's known for having different women, and I'm known for, like, not taking sh*t from guys,” she said. “But we really loved each other, and we was scared to lose each other."

On Dec. 4, 2018, Cardi B posted a since-deleted video on IG to announce her split from Offset. “There you go, peace and love,” she captioned the video, per Billboard.

A few days later, Offset mourned the breakup on Twitter. “F*CK YALL I MISS CARDI,” he wrote on Dec. 9, 2018.

Cardi and Offset’s breakup didn’t last very long. After Offset publicly apologized to Cardi on Instagram for “breaking your heart, breaking our promise, breaking God’s promise and being a selfish, messed-up husband” in December, per Elle, they were able to make amends.

On Jan. 31, 2019, Cardi told a reporter that she and Offset were “working things out, baby,” per E!. By February, they were celebrating Valentine’s Day together as a couple.

Cardi B filed for divorce from Offset in September 2020. According to People, the court docs called the marriage "irretrievably broken,” adding that "there are no prospects for a reconciliation.” Per the outlet, Cardi filed after more infidelity allegations came to light.

Two months after filing for divorce, Cardi changed her mind, and the divorce case was “dismissed without prejudice.”

“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 explained her decision in January 2023.

On June 27, 2021, Cardi announced her second pregnancy while at the BET Awards. She joined Offset’s group Migos for their performance of “Type Sh*t.” A sheer panel in the ‘fit revealed her baby bump.

To make things crystal clear, she followed up with an Instagram post. “#2! ♥️ @offsetyrn,” she captioned the photo of her baby bump.

In September, Cardi B announced the birth of her second baby on Instagram. The couple’s son, named Wave Set Cephus, was born on Sept. 4, 2021.

After Offset accused Cardi of cheating in an Instagram Story, she took to Twitter to deny the “stupid” claims. “First of all, let me say / You can't accuse me of all the things / You know that you are guilty of,” she sang the lyrics of “I Should’ve Cheated” by Keyshia Cole, per People.

Cardi added, “That motherf*cker spiraling and thinking sh*t.”

In a July episode of the podcast Way Up With Angela Lee, Offset explained why he lied about Cardi cheating, which he said happened during an argument when they’d both been drinking.

“That’s my wife. I love her to death,” he clarified, per People. “If you got a New York woman, you know she’s a pitbull at the mouth. She get crazy at the mouth a little bit, and I was really lit that night. We [were] going back and forth and I was like, 'Watch this.’”

In an Oct. 18 episode of Call Her Daddy, Offset discussed the cheating drama. “First off, by, like, respecting her position, right? We’re both public figures, we’re both in the eyes of people,” he said, per Us Weekly.

He shared how he saved his marriage, telling himself, “Stop being selfish. You’re married to this woman, be dedicated to this woman. And also, just like being more communicative about sh*t.”

Since then, Offset said their relationship has way more open communication. “We just talk more and, because, you know, work was getting in the way … communication is key,” he said. “If you don’t like some sh*t t, tell me, and if I don’t like some sh*t , I’ll tell you. … Not communicating f*cks sh*t up.”

The rollercoaster relationship took another dip at the end of 2023, when Cardi B revealed she and Offset had ended things a while ago after a few weeks of breakup rumors.

“I don't know if y'all have been getting clues from me from my Live, I mean... or from my Instagram Stories, where I put certain music,” Cardi said in an Instagram Live video on Dec. 10. “I have been single for a minute now.”

The confirmation came after a week full of suspicious Instagram Stories, in which Cardi posted vague quotes about outgrowing relationships and putting herself first.