LOS ANGELES -- Grammy award-winning rapper Cardi B took the witness stand in her civil assault trial in an Alhambra courtroom on Tuesday.

The rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, is being sued by a security guard who claims the rapper assaulted her outside of a Beverly Hills medical office in 2018. Cardi B's defense claims there was no physical altercation, just a verbal altercation.

Tuesday was day two of the trial surrounding the civil suit.

"How are you today, Cardi?" a reporter asked the rapper as she arrived.

"I'm OK," she said.

"Do you look at this case as a shakedown for money?" a reporter asked.

"Absolutely," she replied.

Cardi B claims the security guard used her cellphone to record her heading into a medical building in Beverly Hills, which sparked a confrontatio

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