Cardi B Says She’s Hitting ‘Reset Button’ in 2025, Warns Haters ‘Y’all Better Apologize to Me Today’

Some people resolve to lose that last few pounds, quit drinking for a month, say hello to a stranger every day or finally book a dream vacation to Hawaii. But Cardi B‘s New Year’s resolutions have a bit more bite to them. The “Bongos” rapper hopped on Instagram Live on Sunday (Nov. 24) to let everyone with a bone to pick know that 2025 is the year she’s done with your mess.

In a fan capture of the post, Cardi explained that she and her friends have been making new year goals, new year plans and new year affirmations, and you better believe she is not playing with any of them. “I’m telling you right motherf–king now, every n–ga or a b–ch that motherf–kin’ play with me in 2024? I’m letting you know right now… y’all better apologize to me today!,” Cardi said in the clip in which she appears to be in her pajamas.

“Because you wanna know what? You wanna know why? Because next year… as soon as… you know everybody always say this every New Year’s, but this time I’m standing on it,” she added. “Next year, as soon as 12 a.m. hit I’m hitting the reset button. You hear me? I’m hitting the motherf–king reset button.”

Cardi then got specific about the level of reset she’s planning. “I’m hitting the f–king reset button. I’m whipping everybody’s ass with a we belt,” she warned. “I’m sick of f–king everybody. I’m telling you, next year I’m not taking f–king nothing.” While Cardi did not specify who her ire was aimed towards, she said a “whole bunch” of stuff happened to her this year that threw her 2024 into chaos.

After having all her music plans in order, including working on music videos and getting unspecified surgery at the beginning of 2024, Cardi said, “God was like, ‘not so fast. I’m sending you a f–king baby!’” To be clear, Cardi gushed over the baby daughter who was born in early September, just weeks after the rapper filed for divorce from Migos MC Offset — with whom she has two other children. Cardi called her “so f–kin beautiful… and she’s my bestie. If I could I would take her to the club with me because she’s my bestie. I wanna be with her all day.”

Cardi spent much of 2024 teasing her long-awaited sophomore album, including in another recent Instagram livestream in which she told fans she’s “wilding out lately” but wants to “get [her] f–-king life together… I have so much things coming next year,” she said. “I know next year is gonna be my f–-king year.” Among the items on her 2025 to-do list are: releasing her as-yet-untitled follow-up to 2018’s Billboard 200-topping debut album Invasion of Privacy, as well as, hopefully, getting “a little boyfriend.”

In October, Cardi told fans that her second full-length studio album was “coming really, really soon,” confirming that she was in the studio working on it.