No One Does Emotional Roller Coaster Like Cardi B and Offset

A relationship can really look like anything. Take, for example, Cardi B and Offset, who brought new meaning to the term on-again, off-again during their tumultuous seven-year relationship. In September, they had their third child together, just a month after Cardi said she’d filed for divorce. Throughout their relationship, these two broke up and got back together multiple times, endured several cheating scandals, had one secret marriage, and were incredibly open about their sex life. You’ve probably forgotten about some of the wild times they’ve had together, so allow me to walk you down memory lane.

Offset offered Cardi a rose

Before their first date, Offset took Cardi out in a group, Bachelor style, in early 2017. In a 2018 interview with Rolling Stone, Offset recalled being taken by Cardi as she became a star in the rap world. “I was like, ‘Damn, I am on her!’” he told the magazine. “I am like, ‘Shit, I like Cardi B!’” He had his publicist set up a dinner with several women, including Cardi, and she walked away with the final rose.

They had their first date at the Super Bowl

On February 5, 2017, Offset took Cardi to watch his hometown team, the Atlanta Falcons, play in the Super Bowl. Years later, he explained his big move on Jimmy Kimmel Live!, saying, “My first date, I went big. I wanted to do something that was not normally done, you know what I’m saying? I wanted to have fun … so I took her to the Super Bowl.” That certainly is not how first dates are “normally done,” I’ll give him that.

“I never wanted to date a rapper because I would hate to look crazy in public,” Cardi later told GQ about the beginning of their relationship. When asked what she meant by crazy, she clarified: “Like you on a date with me but you fucking other bitches.”

Love was in the air

The couple celebrated their first Valentine’s Day together by making their relationship Instagram official. She captioned a now-deleted video of them at the Super Bowl with “Oooh hey babe 💋.” She also responded to a tweet confirming that Offset loved how “nasty and hood” she was.

A few days later, Cardi released the “Lick” remix featuring Offset. The track was recorded in late 2016, but their new status as a couple made it a much bigger deal.

A Met Gala prequel

Cardi would go on to become a mainstay on the Met Gala carpet, but in May 2017 she and Offset only swung by an after-party. This appearance came after a few months of their being coy about their status, with her telling The Fader in March, “I’m not saying I’m dating an Atlanta guy.” A couple of weeks after they stepped out in New York, they dropped the video for “Lick.”

Cardi posted through it

Clearly upset about something, in October 2017 Cardi posted a selfie to her Instagram Story with the caption “Single.” A few days later, she apologized for letting her emotions get the best of her. She shared a photo of Offset to her story, writing, “So listen babes, I exaggerated alil bit earlier cause I was really upset and the Bronx girl in me always have to go to the extreme. I came to my senses now. I’m sorry … waffle house on me?”

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Offset proposed to Cardi B onstage

A week after Cardi declared herself single (and then took it back), Offset proposed to her onstage at a concert in Philadelphia.

Afterward, Offset shared videos of her eight-carat ring on his Instagram story. “She said yes,” he wrote.

They got hacked

On Christmas Eve 2017, Cardi got a pretty bad gift: She and Offset were victims of an iCloud hack, which resulted in nude videos of her being leaked as well as a video from September in which Offset appeared to cheat on her. (Hence Cardi saying she was single in October.)

She revealed the couple had decided to get married on a whim and did so with no frills and only her cousin as a witness.

Kulture was born

On July 10, 2018, Cardi and Offset welcomed their daughter Kulture.

While on Instagram Live, Cardi also insinuated that their divorce battle is growing contentious (in case you couldn’t tell). “Now we’re going to court war, right?” she asked.

Cardi debuted a new man

While Cardi and Offset’s public feud dragged on, rumors began circulating in October that she was dating Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs. The two of them were spotted together several times in the months that followed, and in May, they took things public, cozying up courtside at the Knicks-Celtics playoff game.

Offset initially claimed to be “happy for her,” but later seemed to accuse them of dating for press. “Good roll out n PR,” he wrote in an X post shortly after Cardi put up an Instagram carousel of her romantic Memorial Day boat ride with Diggs. He quickly deleted the post. A few days later, after Diggs was seen with the same haircut as one of Cardi and Offset’s children, Offset blasted off a few tweets about how “trolling wit my kid ends bad” before deactivating his account.

Cardi claimed their strife had affected her pregnancy

In a June post on X Spaces, Cardi said she felt like she was “going crazy” in the last few months of their relationship, per TMZ. “It’s more than the cheating,” she said, accusing Offset of “constant lies” and “gaslighting.”

She said that while she was pregnant with their third child, she “couldn’t eat” and “couldn’t sleep.” “My baby came out five pounds,” she said, “because I couldn’t eat, I was so depressed.”

What’s next for this couple is really anyone’s guess. Between Cardi’s new boyfriend and Offset’s tweets, it seems like they really are headed for divorce this time. That being said, you never know with these two. Maybe next week they’ll announce that they’ve got Dr. Orna on retainer and are exploring ethical non-monogamy.