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Wikipedia Summary for Cardi B
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar (born October 11, 1992), known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper. Born and raised in New York City, she became an Internet celebrity by achieving popularity on Vine and Instagram. From 2015 to 2017, she appeared as a regular cast member on the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York, which depicted her pursuit of her music aspirations. She released two mixtapes—Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, before signing with label Atlantic Records in early 2017.
Her debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy (2018), debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, broke several streaming records, was certified triple platinum by the RIAA and named by Billboard the top female rap album of the 2010s. Critically acclaimed, it won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, making Cardi B the only woman to win the award as a solo artist, as well as the first female rap artist in 15 years to be nominated for Album of the Year. It spawned two number-one singles on the Billboard Hot 100; "Bodak Yellow", which made her the only female rapper to achieve a Diamond-certified song by the RIAA, and the second female rapper to top the chart with a solo output following Lauryn Hill in 1998, and "I Like It", which made her the first female rapper to attain multiple number-one songs on the chart. Her Maroon 5 collaboration "Girls Like You" made her the only female rapper to top the Hot 100 three times. "WAP", the lead single of her second album, made her the only female rap artist to achieve Billboard Hot 100 chart-topping singles in two decades (2010s and 2020s). "Up", the following single, made her the only female rapper to achieve multiple Hot 100 number ones with solo songs, and extended her record as the female rapper with the most Hot 100 number-one singles as her fifth leader.
Recognized by Forbes as one of the most influential female rappers of all time, Cardi B is known for her aggressive flow and candid lyrics, which have received widespread media coverage. She is the highest-certified female rapper of all time on the RIAA's Top Artists (Digital Singles) ranking, also appearing among the ten highest-certified female artists. She is the female rapper with the most billion-streamers on Spotify, and became the first artist to top the inaugural Billboard Global 200. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, eight Billboard Music Awards, five Guinness World Records, five American Music Awards, eleven BET Hip Hop Awards and two ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards. In 2018 Time magazine included her on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, Billboard honored her as Woman of the Year.
I don't know how to drive.
You can't tell me that I can't dress!
The faster I make a lot of money, the faster I can have these kids I want.
I had very strict parents, I could never go outside or go to parties.
To see the positive reaction to my music makes me feel good.
When I do music, I don't feel like it's competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don't like thinking like that. And I don't understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.
It's never too early to get married now.
I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.
I do feel kind of guilty sometimes 'cause, like, I could buy myself a $5,000 dress or a $3,000 dress, and I'm buying these things, but I'm knowing that my cousin need money for the rent. And then I gotta tell myself, 'Stop feeling guilty. You worked for this.'
Instagram has said plenty of times that I'm pregnant, Instagram has said a lot of things about me that are not true, so I don't even know where that's coming from.
That's why I be so careful with my money and always try to invest. I see people who have it all and then lose it.
Ever since I started using guys, I feel so much better about myself. I feel so much more powerful.
I'm a woman. Every woman, I think, wants to get married and wants to have children.
Make more than the guys you thought you wanted to be with.
I wanna hear myself everywhere.
No man wants to accept they could be getting used for money. But it's OK for them to let us know that they use us?
I used to worry a lot. I still worry a lot, but not about the things that I used to worry about because my younger self, I didn't regret anything that I ever did... I was happy, and I was free, and I was living it up.
I feel beautiful without makeup on, but when I do put makeup on, it just gives me this extra pop.
A lot of people always question, 'What else can she do, what else can she do?' And I'm going to show you.
My personality is humongous.
I'll do something that brings me a check.
I have 100 percent Bronx pride, like it's a country, like I am the Bronx.
I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!
I'm gonna be famous forever.
What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.
It's not even the female rappers that are catty -- it's the fans. They just want that beef.
My Instagram got deleted a lot of times. I used to do rough jokes and curse a lot.
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.
I yam who I yam; I'm not somebody, like, standard.
I worked at this supermarket called Amish Market. Everything is, like, organic.
I'm not as open as I used to be. I'm a little bit more filtered, and it kind of sucks, but it's the price you pay to get paid.
This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.
I'm a funny person, but I take my music seriously.
I was a little hesitant to do 'Love and Hip-Hop' because sometimes reality TV can be good for your music career and sometimes bad.
People are afraid to be themselves because people are afraid to be recorded. Everything is being recorded, and everyone is so sensitive. You say something; a section of people will be offended. It's so annoying; you got to be completely censored.
I cannot turn my life back around. I'm already a public figure, I'm famous... It's like, I might as well keep it going, might as well make the money.
I want to be an artist artist, a real artist. I don't just want to do this for temporary money.
My sister's name is Hennessy, so everybody used to be, like, 'Bacardi' to me. Then I shortened it to Cardi B. The 'B' stands for whatever, depending on the day... beautiful or bully.
Am I ever gonna grow thick skin? No.
Summertime, this is the time that you flex.
I'm an emotional gangster. I cry once every month.
I cry sometimes. I get very upset.
I love Lady Gaga. When I was in high school, I really wanted to dress like her.
If a girl have beef with me, she gon' have beef with me forever.