Reginae Carter Explains Why She’s Decided to No Longer Clap Back Online

Reginae Carter was once the master of the clap back, but it seems that she has since retired.

In a new interview with The Breakfast Club, Lil Wayne’s daughter was asked about her penchant for firing back at people who dissed her dad or mom, Toya Johnson. “Why did you slow down on that?” Charlamagne tha God asked. 

“I got older, one,” Carter responded. “Two… I wanted to do stuff in life. I feel like the clap backs—you don’t know who’s in that room. You don’t know who you’re going to clap back to that you might need one day.”

She then explained that her actions can have a negative impact on her career. “I want to act,” she continued. “It’s so many directors—there’s so many people that might hear that I clap back at this person and might [be like], ‘Oh she hard to work with.’ … So I just have to get my act together and I’m still working on myself still to this day.

She added, “You got to understand, I am this celebrity kid who’s grown up and I had young parents. I’ve always heard the word yes, I never heard the word no until I got older to find like, ‘Okay I don’t care who your parents are.’ … In this acting world you really hear [no]. … I had to humble myself.”

Charlamagne pushed a little further, asking her if she “really grew up and didn’t hear the word no?”

“Well, my mom. But I call my dad and [he’d] be like, ‘Yes.’ That’s what my life was. That’s why I respect my mom so much. Shout out to my mom. … She’s still on me and I’m 23 years old. I thank my mom every day because I could go another way. It’s a lot of celebrity kids that go that way and I don’t want to go that path. I want to be respectful—I want people to respect me.”

A good example of Carter’s clap-back skills is from 2019 when Kodak Black dissed her father while on the mic at a Miami club. “Hey, turn this shit off, bro,” Kodak can be heard saying in a video clip. “Where Lil Wayne?” Later, he adds, “You should’ve died when you was a baby.”

When Carter caught wind of Kodak’s comments, she defended her father, writing on Instagram, “You new lil rappers need to start giving props and respect to the Goat. My father don’t bother nobody. … You pick the night he didn’t go to LIV to say that. You bold.”

She continued by saying that Kodak’s Dying to Live album “sound[ed] like my daddy old shit. Gtfoh.”