“I was so over it,” said the rapper of making a swear-free version of recent Megan Thee Stallion collaboration “Bongos”

Word to the wise — don’t censor Cardi B.

In a new appearance on the YouTube series Hot Ones, the Grammy-winning rapper got real about how “annoying” it can be to record clean versions of her songs that are appropriate to be played on pop radio.

“So annoying,” said Cardi, 30, before recalling the recording process for the clean version of her recent single “Bongos” with Megan Thee Stallion. “I just did it practically two weeks ago, and I was so over it because it’s like — you know, my new song, I be like, ’N—- eat this ass like a plum’.”

Cardi B attends the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards at Prudential Center on September 12, 2023 in Newark, New Jersey.

Cardi B. JASON KEMPIN/GETTY

Of course, those lyrics were not deemed acceptable. “I’m doing the clean version, and it’s like, ‘Baby, eat it up like a plum,’ and it’s like, ‘No, you still can’t play that for pop radio’ or whatever,” she continued.

Eventually, Cardi figured out how to make the lyrics more suitable for all ages — but she wasn’t happy about it. “I’m like, ‘Baby, eat these peaches and plums,’ and I was so over it,” she said.

“That sounds so corny, like that sounds like Kidz Bop,” added the “Bodak Yellow” performer, “but I have no choice, so, ‘Baby, eat these peaches and plums.'”

Cardi doesn’t seem to hold any shame over her often-vulger lyrics. Upon the release of her and Megan’s first collaboration, 2020’s “WAP,” she spoke to Australian radio show The Kyle and Jackie O Show about claims the song was overly explicit within the context of the hip-hop and rap genre.

“The people that the song bothers are usually conservatives or really religious people, but my thing is I grew up listening to this type of music,” explained Cardi at the time. “Other people might think it’s strange and vulgar, but to me it’s almost like really normal, you know what I’m saying?”

Cardi, who shares 5-year-old daughter Kulture Kiari with her rapper husband Offset, said she wouldn’t let her then-toddler jam out to “WAP,” but added that that should go without saying since her music is for grownups.

Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion. PRINCE WILLIAMS/WIREIMAGE; EMMA MCINTYRE/GETTY

“No, of course I don’t want my child to listen to this song and everything — but it’s for adults,” she said.

Given the way “WAP” shot to the top of the charts, enjoying the No. 1 spot upon its debut, Cardi thinks the subject matter is of interest.

“You wanna know something? It’s what people wanna hear. If people didn’t wanna hear it, if they were so afraid to hear it, it wouldn’t be doing as good,” said Cardi, who joked that it was “really hard” to rework the single into a radio-approved clean version.