A fan who got into two fights at Cardi B’s meet-and-greet claimed the fights were the result of an overly aggressive security guard, an antagonizing fan who called her a “BIA”, “b—-” and a “dog” and backlash from claims that she didn’t purchase a CD.
Harmoney Karat Gold, the fighter, and Christopher Libane, another Cardi B fan who witnessed the start of the fight from inside Fingerprints, told The Viking how the initial fight with the security guard began.
“I just turnt it up you know and I’m like shoot, if I’m going to leave I’m going to leave with a grand entrance and a grand exit right after,” Gold said.
Harmoney Karat Gold fights Cardi B’s security at the Cardi B meet-and-greet at Fingerprints Music on Sept. 25. (Isaiah Ryan)
Libane told the story that fans were inside Fingerprints close to meeting Cardi B, when Gold began cutting people in line which infuriated those behind her, and the security.
“Yeah, she was drinking straight out the bottle the whole time and you know I thought she was funny because was saying some unhinged wild things, but she was clearly like Cardi’s biggest fan of all the people that I had seen throughout the day, she kind of dressed like her, kind of had you know a little bit of the same attitude and mannerisms,” said Libane.
Although Gold claimed to not have been drunk, she did claim to have drank while in line.
“I was drinking a little bit ‘cause I’m just having a good time. I’m kid free, you know, it’s a nice day out,” Gold said.
Gold told the incident more in depth stating that she asked people in line to cut because she had an event to attend at 6 p.m. and realized it was already 6:12 p.m., so she asked a few people in line if she could cut ahead. She felt comfortable requesting because she and the people around her had spent hours bonding while waiting to meet Cardi.
“We’ve been saving these spots, while everybody goes to the bathroom, come back, it was no drama, it was all just hyped up, and so when we get in there and I ask them if I can skip a couple of people, a few people said yeah and when it stopped, when they said no, it stopped right there and I said ok,” Gold recalled in an interview with The Viking.
Gold said that she cut one fan who had a daughter, and that even though he let her cut, he became upset when he thought that Blue Cherry, her cousin who came with her to the event and was holding Gold’s original spot in line, was going to cut as well.
Gold told him that she was calling Cherry to tell her to go outside because Cherry didn’t have a wristband to meet Cardi B, but the dad became upset and didn’t believe her.
He repeated out loud many times “oh that’s wrong,” “that’s messed up,” according to Gold and that’s what got the security’s attention.
Gold felt he kept repeating the phrases on purpose to get the security guard’s attention.
Libane confirmed that Gold did argue with fans, and according to him as well the security tried to solve the situation by telling Gold to get back in line, and she listened. Then he claimed that while she was in line, she mouthed under her breath multiple times about how upset she was with security, saying words like “f— that guy”.
Gold claims that security pulled her to the side to talk to her.
“I come to the side, I’m like okay, I’m right here whatever, what’s going on? I didn’t cut in front of nobody, I asked everybody, ‘he was like I don’t want to hear it, you’re being hostile, get out”, and so I’m like I’m not being hostile, but you know what, I just want my CD. He was like, “go get it somewhere else,” Gold said.
She expressed that she was upset at that moment because she had come that day to get her CD that she had already paid for.
Harmoney Karat Gold shows off the wristband and CD that she received at the Cardi B meet-and-greet, proving that she had access to the event. (Isaiah Ryan)
A close up of Harmoney Karat Gold’s tatoo that says “Gutta Ass B—-” as she holds Cardi B’s “Am I The Drama?” CD. (Isaiah Ryan)
“I snapped, it triggered me because after he told me I needed to go purchase it somewhere else or come back later, he says, ‘you lied anyway’, so that’s where it really pumped me up because I’m a Scorpio, I need nothing but the truth, you ain’t gonna lie on me… whatcha mean I’m lying, I’m lying about a $23 CD that I purchased to support Cardi B, another woman that’s just like me, a mother, you know what I’m saying? Out here struggling, getting out the mud, getting out the gutter.” Gold said.
Libane expressed that he felt security handled the situation too harshly, and said that he believes “the security was on a power trip.”
“Security was definitely, in my opinion, abusing their security power… He didn’t need to go that hard over somebody like, he’s like 300 pounds, she’s like 110 pounds, there was clearly a weight dynamic difference,” Libane said.
Harmoney Karat Gold shows the bruises that she left with after a fight between her and a security guard. Gold shared that the security guard was overly agressive with her. (Isaiah Ryan)
Libane described Gold as “a crowd fluffer” and “a motivational speaker” who said phrases like “you’re that b—” and “you go girl” to people in line, and said she kept him entertained the whole time they were waiting in line with her personality. He even was excited by the fact that, because she was ahead of him once she cut people in line, he would have the chance to see her interaction with Cardi B.
Harmoney Karat Gold and her cousin Blue Cherry pose using a fight stance during a photoshoot with The Viking News. (Isaiah Ryan)
“She didn’t deserve to be tricked, she was tricked to get out… he was trying to manipulate her to be like, ‘oh’ all sweet like ‘oh just come out, we’re just going to have a talk, we’re just going to have a talk, let’s just go outside’, and then that’s why things went off on the outside, because he didn’t fulfill what he was saying,” said Libane.
Libane expressed that he thinks Fingerprints needs to be more prepared for the demographic of fans that their events bring, since Cardi B promotes drinking and partying in her music. He claims they should have been more tolerant of the drunk fan.
“In my eyes, it was such an injustice.. We don’t know if this opportunity is going to come again, and she got robbed of that one time meeting her idol. And I just feel like Fingerprints definitely needs to make it right in some capacity, because yeah, it was definitely on the security guard,” said Libane.
The owner of Fingerprints, Rand Foster, shared that the security didn’t work for Fingerprints but was hired for the event by Cardi B’s team.
After Gold got escorted outside and the fight between her and the security guard happened, Gold drove back to the front of Fingerprints and got in another fight, this time with a fan.
Foster described the fight, confirming that the fan who Gold said called her a “BIA” was antagonizing her.
“So then she got drunk and then came back, dropped her car in the lane, like in the next lane over, jumped out of the car, ran over and punched the guy a bunch of times, and everybody was like he totally had it coming because he had been bugging her all day,” said Foster.
Esteban Contreras, left, pushes back Harmoney Karat Gold, center, after she punched him in the face during their fight outside of Fingerprints Music. (Isaiah Ryan)
Gold recounted the moment when the fan disrespected her.
“So as I was arguing with them, this guy comes up and he comes with a camera in my face and he’s like ‘aha you look like a BIA’. I look like a BIA? …he started calling me a dog and all this and all that.”
She stated that he was singing the lyrics of Cardi’s song “Pretty & Petty” at her, which is on her new album, where Cardi calls BIA “a lap dog”.
Gold explained the fight, in the same order as Foster and added that in the midst of her arguing with the security guard and the fan who was antagonizing her, a Fingerprints employee gave her cousin her CD, which came with a broken case.
Gold’s cousin, Blue Cherry, said Esteban Contreras, the man who antagonized her, made her feel uncomfortable and in her own words she said “he was such a weird, creep, pedo”.
“He was like oh who are you, you’re really pretty, he was like really creepy about it. Then when he was coming up the car I was like you need to back up, and he was like ‘Why are you being like that, I just want to be your friend, let me get a handshake,'” Cherry said.
He called her pretty when he was arguing with Gold up front at the store after the fight with security. He insisted on making up with Cherry when he went up to the car.
The Viking reached out to Contreras to ask for his side of the story, but he did not respond after a week.
Gold had some last words during the interview.
“This was an iconic moment for me, not because I was out here crashing out, but because you know I stood up for myself, and I’m not going to let nobody run me over,” said Gold.
Gold left off with a message for Cardi B saying, “I’m going to support her till the day I die” and “most definitely, if she needs me to do a video, I’m ready.”
Watch the video interview with Harmoney Karat Gold and Blue Cherry on YouTube.
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