Rick Ross wants people to leave Cardi B alone.

Days after a video of the Bronx rapper admitting she used to drug and rob men went viral, Ross, no stranger to controversy about “drugging” people, came to her defense in a video posted to Instagram Live on Thursday.

“Leave Cardi B alone because we don’t need to persecute her for her past. We need to be leaders and lead by example,” he said. “Regardless of what you did in your past, if you stole a car in the past, that don’t mean you shouldn’t be able to get money in the future. As long as you change your ways, and we all know Cardi B focused on the money now. She is a leader, and that’s how I feel.”

In 2011, Ross lost an endorsement deal with Reebok because of outrage over his song “U.O.E.N.O.,” on which he appeared to condone date rape. In the song, he rapped, “Put molly all in her champagne/ She ain’t even know it/ I took her home and I enjoyed that/ She ain’t even know it.”

While the Miami rapper made clear he supports Cardi, saying she has never hidden who she is, he also said he understands why Reebok dropped him and holds no ill will toward the company.

“My circumstances and my incidents, where I did lose a seven-figure deal with Reebok and I took that to the chin,” he said. “I have no love lost for Reebok, you understand, because I needed to understand that I was a king, you understand, and they’re right I didn’t need to promote that the parties I attended at the time from I’m from that was the lifestyle.”

Earlier this week, Cardi B came under fire after an old Instagram Live clip of her admitting to drugging and robbing men in the past resurfaced.

“I made the choices that I did at the time because I had very limited options. I was blessed to have been able to rise from that but so many women have not,” she said in response to the controversy. “Whether or not they were poor choices at the time I did what I had to do to survive.”