Cardi B Calls Out “Rage Bait” Over Javits Frimpong’s Killing

Cardi B accused a social media user named Kyle of using the killing of 15-year-old Javits Frimpong as “rage bait,” after clips of her comments about bullying spread online.

In a later Instagram post, the Bronx rapper said parts of her livestream had been edited to encourage attacks on celebrities. She argued that the clips drew attention away from the teenager’s death.

“What happened to Javits is very serious,” Cardi wrote.

She also told Kyle that, as a gay Black man, he should understand how people could be targeted, bullied and left without protection.

The dispute followed her appeal to parents to confront bullying. On Instagram Live, Cardi had urged adults to take responsibility for how their children treated other kids.

“Teach your kids to be fucking kind because it starts with you,” she said.

Cardi had criticized parents who brushed aside teachers’ complaints about their children’s behavior. Buying kids sneakers and giving them attention did not excuse cruelty toward classmates, she argued.

She said harassment could lead young people to seek safety in gangs, linking that point to her own experience “because that’s practically what happened to me.”

She also said U.S.-born children could target newcomers whose families came from the same country. She rejected the idea that one racial or ethnic group alone was responsible for the bullying.

Frimpong was shot while walking to school in the Bronx on October 29. Students at DreamYard Preparatory School walked out Monday, November 2 to honor him and call for action against bullying and gun violence.

“We had to go through the same thing he went through. From elementary to now. We deal with racism, colorism,” student Miriam Tourkire said.

Friends described a boy who made people laugh. Some also said they felt safe inside school, where they believed the principal had worked to address an earlier incident, but feared what could happen outside.

His father and friends said he had been involved in an altercation the week before the shooting and that two students had been suspended.

Police had not established a motive. Chief of Detectives Joseph Kenny said investigators were considering possible bullying, a robbery gone wrong or mistaken identity. Police were seeking three teenage boys and had made no arrests, ABC7 New York reported.