Cardi-whack arrest
RAPPER CHARGED FOR STRIP-CLUB ATTACK:
Cardi B wasn’t kidding when dropped her single “Be Careful.” The Bronx-born rapper turned herself in to cops Monday morning amid allegations she hurled a hookah pipe and drinking glasses at two bartender sisters at a Queens strip club during a jealousy-fueled melee back in August, police and sources said. Cardi said nothing as she surrendered at the 109th Precinct station house in Flushing just after 9:30 a.m. Cops ccharged her with two counts of reckless endangerment and one count of thirddegree assault for the alleged attack — which was also said to involve about 10 members of her crew — and took her mugshotshot and fingerprints. The “BBodak Yellow” star is due in Queens Criminal Court on Oct. 29. The sibling bartenders — known on social media as Jade and Baddie Gi — claim they were attacked Aug. 29 while working at the Angels Strip Club in Flishing because of allegations one of them had had sex with Cardi B’s husband, rapper Offset (below left), sources said.
Cardi B, born Belcalis Almánzar, allegedly tossed the hookah and glasses during the fight, while members of her crew supposedly threw bottles and chairs, causing bodily harm.
The sisters — whose real names are Rachel Wattley, 21, and Sarah Wattley, 23 — are now suffering back and neck pain, according to their lawyer.
“Cardi B ordered and committed violent assaults against my clients and is being called to justice for her crimes,’’ said the sisters’ lawyer, Joe Tacopina.
“Apparently, she thinks her celebrity status puts her above the law,” Tacopina said. “But reality is setting in, as justice does not care whether her name is Cardi B or Carly B, and she will now answer for her crimes.”
The Wattley sisters are listed on the police report as “friends/acquaintances” of Cardi’s, but Tacopina said it’s definitely the latter — and insisted that nei-
ther of his clients had been fooling around with Offset, a member of the hip-hop trio Migos.
“Offset played with his band or whatever at the club they were bartending at,” Tacopina said. “They run in the same circles but [are] certainly not social friends.”
A publicist for Cardi, who released her debut album in April, declined to comment on the allegations, but her lawyer claimed she never hurt anyone at the strip joint that night.
“We’re aware of no evidence that she caused anybody any harm at the club that night,” said Cardi’s lawyer, Jeff Kern. “We expect that the matter is going to be resolved expeditiously.”
Sources close to the rapper told The Post that she went to the cops to clear her name.
Last month, she notoriously got into a public dispute with rapper Nicki Minaj at a New York Fashion Week event at The Plaza hotel.
Two teenage Cardi B fans showed up outside the station house after skipping school Monday in hopes of getting a selfie with the rapper, but left empty-handed.
They said Cardi, who has a baby named Kulture with Offset, should have taken the high road in the alleged dispute.
“She could have been mature about it and left it alone. We’re all human beings. She slept with your man, oh well,” said Paige Aiken, 18. “At the end of the day, that’s your child’s father. So it should have been handled differently. It’s a lesson learned, and she needs to become a bigger person.”