Cardi B shut down rumors she was shading Nicki Minaj on Monday.

The Bodak Yellow rapper, 31 — who has previously thrown a shoe at the Super Bass hitmaker — took to Instagram to share stunning maternity photos of herself as eagle-eyed fans noticed the word ‘pedophile’ graffitied in the background.

And her followers think that the expectant mother intentionally posed in front of the word to throw shade at Nicki’s husband of five years, Kenneth Petty, who is a registered sex offender.

In the snap, the Bartier Cardi songstress showed off her baby bump in a bra and 1990s archived Alpinestars reserve x Tanaka vintage jacket as she posed on a motorcycle.

She teamed the look with long silver boots and styled her hair in voluminous curls  while channeling her inner biker girl.

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Cardi B took to Instagram to share maternity photos and an ultra sound snap as  fans noticed the word ‘pedophile’ graffitied in the background — seemly shading rival rapper Nicki Minaj

She captioned the snaps, ‘I wanna meet my little boo boo soo bad already,’ while adding an ultrasound photo of her little bundle of joy.

And since the rival rappers have publicly feuded before, fans also rushed to the comments of her X (formerly Twitter) questioning if she was shading the GRAMMY winner.

One user penned, ‘Lol wait why there’s Pedophile written on the wall??……is this a nicki shade?’

Another added, ‘I just wanna know why it say “pedophile” in the back, yall couldn’t paint over that or was it intentional.’

And one Instagram user noted, ‘Pedophile? Is this a shade?’ Another was upset by Cardi posing behind the spray paint, sharing, ‘Having the word “pedophile” in your maternity shoot is so weird.’

The WAP singer fired back at speculation on X (formerly Twitter) that she was throwing shade at Nicki, 41.

‘First of all we literally picked a random street because paparazzi was hounding us everywhere.. this was supposed to be my original first picture and we had to edit the photos in minutes because the shoot got leaked,’ she wrote.

‘Didn’t even have time to go over every detail because people were busy trying to expose my pregnancy as ‘aha’ moment…Second I’m ALWAYS with the s–ts but I’m not using MY MATERNITY shoot to be funny. Are you dumb??’ she said, setting the record straight.

In a follow up tweet she continued to defend her maternity shoot.

‘Btch my makeup artist touched up the picture because we didn’t have time for all that, it says the date and time nobody was paying attention to the graffiti… second if I wanted to be petty I would’ve posted a lot of memes last week,’ she added.

And she warned users to stop spreading the false narrative, saying: ‘I KEEP TELLIN YALL TO LEAVE ME THE F-K ALONE !! If I’m saying I’m not on that time DONT MAKE ME GET ON THAT TIME. Unrist yourself!!’

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One user penned, ‘Lol wait why there’s Pedophile written on the wall??……is this a nicki shade?’

Another added, ‘I just wanna know why it say “pedophile” in the back, yall couldn’t paint over that or was it intentional’

And one Instagram user noted, ‘Pedophile? Is this a shade?’

Another was upset by Cardi posing behind the spray paint, sharing, ‘Having the word “pedophile” in your maternity shoot is so weird’

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‘Nobody was paying attention to the graffiti… if I wanted to be petty I would’ve posted a lot of memes last week,’ Cardi fired back; seen in 2024

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She has previously thrown a shoe at the Super Bass hitmaker during a 2018 Harper’s Bazaar party; seen in 2024

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Cardi’s followers think that the expectant mother intentionally posed in front of the word to throw shade at Nicki’s husband of five years, Kenneth Petty, who is a registered sex offender; Nicki and Kenneth seen in 2019

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Cardi announced that she was expecting her third child earlier in August with estranged husband Offset; seen in 2020

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Cardi announced that she was expecting her third child earlier in August with estranged husband Offset.

And she recently admitted she suffered a ‘freak accident’ that almost caused her to miscarry, leaving her briefly ‘paralyzed.’

She and the 32-year-old rapper already share daughter Kulture, five, and a son, Wave, two.