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Judge of Characters: Clapback for the D
Clapbacks are having the best week ever! There’s no one better than Rihanna when you’re talking clapbacks. Ms. Fenty has clapbacks down to a simple and sophisticated science that leaves all of your edges on the floor. Rihanna’s Fenty Beauty took the world and women of color by storm, selling out almost everywhere within the…
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Cardi B Explains Her NYPD Choke Hold Allegation With the Most Beautiful, Ghetto-Fabulous Story of All Time
The national treasure of beauty and philosophical guru-level, wisdom-filled ghetto-fabulousness known as Cardi B recently revealed how she was reportedly put in a choke hold by a New York City police officer in one of the greatest, most hood-tastic stories ever told. Black America’s crazy cousin from the Bronx tweeted a story last week (now…
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Whether You Love It or Hate It, ‘Bodak Yellow’ Is Now the No. 1 Song in the Country
Honestly, I’m glad “Bodak Yellow” is finally the No. 1 song in the country, because now maybe people will stop writing think pieces about it and the “greatness” that is Cardi B. Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” officially hit No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100—and, in the process, gave Taylor Swift’s “Look What You Made…
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This Acoustic Cover of ‘Bodak Yellow’ Is the Whitest Thing That Ever Happened
Like many children, when I was growing up, I received my share of spankings. Although they were very sporadic, they were not the apex of punishment in my mother’s household. If I did something extremely outrageous stupid (like the time she caught me and my cousin holding a Zippo lighter over a gas stove because…
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Cardi B Alleges NYPD Officer Put Her in a Choke Hold
Whether or not you agree that “Bodak Yellow” is the greatest song in recent times, we can all agree that Cardi B’s star power is soaring like a phoenix. But that doesn’t mean she’s immune to the everyday struggles people of color face, especially at the hands of the police. In a series of now-deleted…
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‘Bodak Yellow’ Is Trash, and if You Like It, Your Taste in Music Is Trash
I love Cardi B. I love everything about her. I love that she is aggressively real. I love that she is aggressively beautiful. I love that she is aggressively Cardi. I had a sister who was killed a few years ago. She was Cardi B before Cardi B was Cardi B. Her name was Robin,…
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Cardi B, Yay or Nay: GMG Staffers Share Their ‘Unpopular Opinions’ on America’s Unconventional Sweetheart
This is Unpopular Opinions, a romp through our staff’s personal Slack conversations that boldly reveals scandalous opinions that many would deem unpopular. So basically, it’s a conversation that proclaims, “We schaid what we schaid.” And this week’s topic of conversation is a woman whose name won’t stay off our tongues. Move over, *insert mediocre white…
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10 Signs You’re One of Those Wack-Ass People Who Don’t Like ‘Bodak Yellow’
Because I’m a weird and curmudgeonly fuck who doesn’t go to clubs and while driving listens only to Waze and Spotify playlists mostly consisting of Kanye and the Inception soundtrack, before last weekend, I’d heard about Cardi B’s “Bodak Yellow” more times than I had actually heard it. By a pretty significant margin, too. While…
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Beyoncé Loves Cardi B Just Like the Rest of Us!
One of the most endearing things about Beyoncé is that despite her carefully crafted image, she still manages to impart the illusion that she’s just like the rest of us, a regular “Texas bama” slanging hot sauce, decrying police brutality and making Lemonade when life becomes too bitter. So it was no surprise that at…
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8 Hip-Hop 1-Hit Wonders You Flat-Out Forgot About
I’m calling it right now: “Bodak Yellow” will make Cardi B a one-hit wonder (Editor’s Note: I disagree with this wholeheartedly—P.J.). I’ve tried to bump “Bodak Yellow” more than once, and I’ve determined that dragging a metal rake across a chalkboard in a classroom full of preschoolers who are all simultaneously screaming about a “boo-boo”…