- Cardi B called out the stepson of a passenger on the Titanic sub for going to a Blink-182 concert.
- Brian Szasz, the stepson, responded to her on Twitter, telling her to "get some class."
Brian Szasz, a man who identified himself as stepson of one of the passengers on the missing Titanic submersible, responded to Cardi B after the rapper called him out for posting about going to a Blink-182 concert amid the crisis.
Szasz replied directly to Cardi B on Twitter, tagging the rapper in a tweet and linking to a TMZ story about her video.
"What a pos trashy celeb," he wrote in the tweet. "Cardi B trying to get clout off me and my families suffering. I went to a Blink 182 concert for coping rather than sitting at home and watching the news. Shame on you Cardi get some class!"
In a follow-up tweet, Szasz said that Cardi B's most recent releases were "trash" and accused her of being "desperate for attention."
—Brian (@audioguy182) June 21, 2023
The Titan submersible, a small vessel operated by OceanGate Expeditions, lost communication with its mothership on Monday and has been missing since with five passengers on board. One of those passengers is British billionaire Hamish Harding, and in a tweet Monday, Szasz identified himself as Harding's stepson.
In a since-deleted Facebook post preserved by the Daily Mail, TMZ, and Twitter account Pop Crave, Szasz posted on Monday that he was at the Blink-182 show in San Diego.
"It might be distasteful being here but my family would want me to be at the blink-182 show as it's my favorite band and music helps me in difficult times!" Szasz wrote in the post.
In a video uploaded to her Instagram story late Tuesday and viewed by Insider, Cardi B condemned Szasz's actions, saying that he shouldn't have gone to the concert.
"People is like, 'Um, well, what is he supposed to do? Be sad at the house? Is he supposed to go look for him himself?' Yes," Cardi B said in the video uploaded to her story. "You supposed to be at the house, sad. You supposed to be crying for me. You supposed to be right next to the phone waiting to hear any updates about me. You supposed to be consoling your mom and shit."
The rapper said that the thought of being a billionaire who "nobody gives a fuck about" was "sad."
"You missing, and motherfuckers is ready to shake dicks at concert," she said. "That's crazy. I'd rather be broke. I'd rather be broke than like, and poor, but knowing that I'm loved."
Szasz and a representative for Cardi B did not immediately respond to Insider's request for comment.