Thanksgiving 2023 was stuffed with good vibes, low vibrational plates, and hilarious shenanigans with a side of mess that took over social media ahead of our annual unwrapping of Queen of Christmas Mariah Carey.
“Drinking @whip_shots with a with a slice of Patti pies was EVERYTHING.. I can’t wait for Thanksgiving ❤️ Being with Ms Patti and her family was such a honor. The way she speaks with such gentleness, calmness, and grace is soooo soothing..
I kept asking her questions just to hear her talk and one hug from her was so warm it makes you just feel welcome and like you knew her forever! So charming and so sweet but at the same time you can tell she can get real Philly on ya ass if she needs to! 😂
Thank you so much @mspattilabelle you are everything and I’m coming over for dinner every chance I get!!!
From our homes to yours…”
The Queen of Thanksgiving had a timeee with the “Bongos” rapper who topped off Patti’s famous sweet potato pie with pumpkin-flavored Whipshots.
According to the press release, “Over the course of 7 sitcom-style episodes, Cardi and Patti head to the kitchen to put their tastebuds to the test as they mix and match Whipshots flavors with Patti’s Good Life desserts to discover the most delicious pairings.’
Was your Thanksgiving giving this year? How many low vibrational plates did you smash? Tell us down below and enjoy the funniest tweets from this year’s turkey day festivities on the flip.
Cardi B blasted a social media user who condemned her for posting a workout video and “acting like” she exercises after undergoing cosmetic alterations.
“I hate influencers who do this get all the surgery acting like they really be in the gym when really if they gain more weight they will just get surgery again smh,” the commenter tweeted on Tuesday.
In the clip uploaded by Cardi, the “Bongos” musician, 31, is seen in a gym showing off her curves in a pair of skin-tight green leggings.
Cardi quickly responded to the critic less than an hour later to explain that she has to “maintain” her physique despite her procedures.
“How vocal have I been about my procedures??? The thing is I don’t gain weight much so I’m trying to gain MUSCLE cuz it’s hard for me to maintain fat. Also there’s this thing called visceral fat…It’s fat that grows under the muscle and you can’t lipo it only thing you can do is work it out!” she wrote back.
The “Hustlers” star added: “THATS WHY YOU SEE POUCHES ON LIPO GIRLS. YOU HAVE TO MAINTAIN IT!”.
Cardi’s fans stepped in to defend the New York rapper in her comments section.
As if Cardi doesn’t constantly speak on the work she gets done. 😂
People who have surgeries can also workout to maintain their overall shape, muscle definition, stamina, etc.
Why I love Cardi❤️ she’s always vocal and let us in the know about all her procedures and work out. She’s never hiding anything at all. She’s one person who’s confident in her own skin whether good or baddd
— Pretoria Winright Prince 🇳🇬 🇪🇺 (@pretoriadaddyP) November 22, 2023
We know she had surgery tho? She never said she didn’t.. plus women have to maintain those bodies in the gym…
Appearing in Interview’s March 2021 cover story, the former reality star opened up about feeling “so vindicated” after going under the knife.
“Even when I was 18 and became a dancer, I had enough money to afford to buy boobs, so every insecurity that I felt about my breasts was gone,” she shared. “When I was 20, I went to the urban strip club, and in the urban strip clubs, you had to have a big butt. So I felt insecure about that. It took me back to high school. So I got my ass done. And then I felt super confident.”
But the star also issued a stern warning to her fans about the dangers of surgery while previously discussing the “crazy process” she went through to remove the illegal silicone shots that she got in a basement in 2014.
“In August I got surgery and I removed 95% of my biopolymers… if you don’t know what it is, it’s ass shots. It was a really crazy process,” Cardi B said last year.
She added: “All I’m going to say is that if you’re young, if you’re 19, 20, 21, and sometimes you’re too skinny, and you be like, ‘OMG I don’t have enough fat to put in my ass,’ so you result to ass shots, DON’T!”
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“I don’t give a fuck the résumé they send,” Cardi said. “I’m not endorsing no presidents no more.”
“Joe Biden is talking about, ‘Yeah, we can fund two wars,’” she went on, referring to America’s sizable military aid for Ukraine and Israel. “Motherfucker’s talking about, ‘We don’t got it, but we got it, we’re the greatest nation.’ No the fuck we’re not. We’re going through some shit right now. We are really, really, really fucked right now.”
Comparing the foreign aid promises to the $120 million budget cuts recently announced in her native New York City, the “Up” artist said, “The world is in fucking shambles… we can’t fund these wars. We can barely fucking fund this country.”
Cardi B went off on President Joe Biden in an Instagram Live video over the weekend.
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Although Cardi eventually endorsed Biden in the 2020 general election, she was a vocal supporter of Sen. Bernie Sanders during the 2016 and 2020 Democratic primaries.
After deciding to vouch for Biden in 2020, she warned the two-time vice president about making voters promises he couldn’t keep.
“I tried to let him know, like, listen, we don’t want no false promises,” the “WAP” rapper said during an August 2020 interview on “The Breakfast Club.” “We don’t want no fake shit to get people voting. This is what we want. Please make it happen.”
Cardi’s cooling toward Biden reflects a growing trend among voters younger than 35.
This weekend, a poll by NBC News found Biden trailing former President Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential campaign by 4 percentage points with likely voters ages 18 to 34.
The numbers show a striking shift from 2020, when Biden won over the 18-to-29 set by more that 20 points, according to NBC’s national exit poll.
While one might automatically assume that a song called “Cobra,” coming from Megan Thee Stallion, would be inherently innuendo-laden (it was, after all, in “WAP” that Cardi B declared, “I need a king cobra”), in the end, the rapper’s latest single is more spiritual than sexual. Because, lest anyone forget, the cobra is known just as much for being able to shed its skin as it is for its phallic nature.
So it is that the Douglas Bernardt-directed video begins with a circular close-up on Megan Thee Stallion’s mouth (with the entire rest of the screen in black) as she informs us, “Just as a snake sheds its skin, we must shed our past over and over again.” Amen. Soon after, the camera zooms out to show Thee Stallion with snake eyes. Bernardt then cuts to a very birth-like scene (you know, think: emerging from ya ma’s vaginal canal) of Megan, practically in her birthday suit, crawling out of the snake’s mouth. After making her way out into the wilderness-y milieu, another snake awaits as the rock-oriented (by rap standards) beat drops and Thee Stallion commences her tale of woe and overcoming it with the lyrics, “Breakin’ down and I had the whole world watchin’/But the worst part is really who watched me/Every night I cried, I almost died/And nobody close tried to stop it/Long as everybody gettin’ paid, right?/Everything’ll be okay, right?”
Surely, these are lines that Britney Spears can relate to. In addition to, “I’m winnin’, so nobody trippin’/Bet if I ever fall off, everybody go missin’.” Indeed, part of Spears’ big “fuck you” to the many who wronged her, particularly her family, is to shirk the music industry altogether at this point (with rumors still swirling that she’s due to “return” any day now). So if Megan ever wants to take the same approach, she knows who to look to for inspiration. At the same time, Spears has shown her cobra-like strength by shedding the trauma of her own past and still “daring” to interface with the public at all (mostly on Instagram). And, besides, this is the same girl who iconically draped a snake around her shoulders while shimmying to “I’m A Slave 4 U” at the 2001 VMAs. The snake metaphor has long been in her wheelhouse (much to Taylor Swift’s dismay).
As for the moody guitar rhythm of “Cobra,” brought to listeners by Bankroll Got It, Shawn “Source” Jarrett and Derrick Milano, it reminds one of ANTI-era Rihanna—namely the sixth track on the album, “Woo” (co-produced by Hit-Boy, Kuk Harrell and, yes, Travis Scott). But the visuals themselves are pure Nicki Minaj (complete with a similar state of undress) in the video for 2018’s “Ganja Burn,” off the Queen album. And, like “Cobra,” “Ganja Burn” also offers a prologue, this one written (instead of spoken) as follows:
Once upon a time, in a world unknown… there lived a queen. The generous queen. One day, her enemies all came together to hold a secret meeting and concocted a plan to take the generous queen down. They conspired with someone who was once very close to her & struck like a thief in the night. Though the queen could hear & see them in her mind, she decided to allow them an easy victory. She advised her army to do & say nothing. They slaughtered her village. What they perceived as death was a deep sleep. Once the generous queen had enough of her rest, she began to arise as she blew life back into her army. They all assembled, stronger & better than ever. They became more protective of the queen than ever before. She made a command. One command. ‘Kill everything in sight.’ With those words, her enemies were all put to death. The queen’s empire celebrated. They asked her, ‘Why did you allow us to be defeated?’ She responded, ‘So that generations for years & years to come would know, that even in the grave, he is lord.
Megan Thee Stallion wants to convey a similar message to her own enemies, with especial focus on the man who caused so much of her suicide ideation for the past few years, Tory Lanez. It is he that The Stallion refers to when she provides the aforementioned rap, “Breakin’ down and I had the whole world watchin’/But the worst part is really who watched me/Every night I cried, I almost died.” And yet, despite understanding the preciousness of life after her near-death experience, Megan still can’t help feeling “very depressed.” We’re talking wrist-slittingly depressed.
Addressing the conundrum of being rich and successful, yet still feeling empty inside (to bring up Britney again, she already explored that pain with 2000’s “Lucky”), Megan sings, “How can somebody so blessed wanna slit they wrist?/Shit, I’d probably bleed out some Pinot/When they find me, I’m in Valentino, ayy.” Needless to say, the expensive wines and the designer labels aren’t enough to fill an emotional and spiritual void. Which means, like Britney in 2003, maybe it’s time for Megan to seek Kabbalah counsel from Madonna, who once told her dancers that after their tour (2004’s Reinvention Tour, to be exact), she hoped they had become “more compassionate to other human beings and more responsible for your actions and your words, because without those two things your gifts and your talents mean nothing.”
Perhaps Thee Stallion is starting to pick up on that message, even if still allowing herself to wallow in her melancholia just a little bit longer. During the chorus, she speaks to that sadness on a new level, channeling Charlotte York (Kristin Davis) in the vulvodynia episode of Sex and the City (“The Real Me”) when she says, “This pussy deprеssed, hmm/I’m about to stress him, yeah.” This is said while Megan is in a human-sized tank meant to mirror the kind that “pet” cobras and other snakes are usually kept in, all while strangers watch her and take her picture. Thus, she takes Taylor Swift’s “fishbowl” metaphor from the “Lover” video and remakes it with a snake tank. For that’s what it is to be famous: trapped inside a glass prison with everyone on the outside examining and dissecting your every move. Inside the tank, Megan peels off another layer of skin from her face.
Intercut scenes in black and white then start to show up, featuring Megan in her most Nicki-looking aesthetic yet. A smattering of heads contained inside a sea of snakes also serves to highlight Thee Stallion’s overarching message that she will always triumph over her enemies, hitting back when they least expect it with her own set of venomous fangs. Dancing in the middle of a spiral jetty during the mercurial guitar solo (at its most “80s rock” yet), Thee Stallion again gives off major “Ganja Burn” video vibes. Soon, a montage of images that we’ve seen throughout the video play at a rapid-fire pace before the camera finally pauses on Thee Stallion’s face looking back at us, her back arched and her breathing visible. It is in this moment that the viewer can understand the full weight of her focus on the cobra as a spirit animal. For it is she who posted an image relating to the cobra’s symbolic meaning that stated, “Cobras exemplify courage and self-reliance. They stand tall and fierce in the face of challenges, teaching one to tap into their inner strength and rely on oneself to conquer their threats. Emulating the cobra helps one be more confident in the person they are within.”
How fitting, then, that “Cobra” should serve as the first single from Megan’s Hot Girl label. Part of a larger company called Hot Girl Productions LLC—and secured after years of legal battles with 1501 Certified Entertainment—it’s no coincidence that her first release since 2022’s Traumazine is a marked departure from the sound of previous music. Not just the melding of rap and rock (of the variety perhaps not seen since Run DMC and Aerosmith joined forces), but with the amplification of her deeply personal lyrics. The kind of lyrics that are generally not associated with being “rap topics” (because that can only extend to repetitive mentions of bands and booties, n’est-ce pas?).
This includes exposing further vulnerability by alluding to her breakup with Pardison Fontaine, as she refers to his infidelity via the lines, “Pulled up, caught him cheatin’/Gettin’ his dick sucked in the same spot I’m sleepin’.” Here, again, it’s worth remarking that Minaj was the mainstream’s progenitor of these kinds of deeply personal lyrics in her rap music, with notable examples including The Pinkprint’s “I Lied,” “The Crying Game” and “Pills n Potions.” With “Cobra,” Megan Thee Stallion is amplifying the “vulnerability in rap” trend that Minaj started a decade ago and making it all her own.
In case you haven’t noticed, Y2K fashion is back with a vengeance. Shrugs, dresses over pants, and low-rise denim skirts are just a few of the 2000s trends enjoying their moment in the sun again. Isn’t it funny how these trends can instantly transport you back two decades? That was the case when I saw Cardi B’s newest outfit, which immediately made me think of going into Wet Seal at my local mall in 2002 and buying similar jeans.
Photographed in New York, Cardi B wore extra-faded bootcut jeans that simply scream Y2K. Oh, and don’t overlook her excellent Maison Margiela Tabi shoes. As it turns out, plenty of brands have jumped on this denim trend, as evidenced by the plethora of options available at Urban Outfitters, Shopbop, and other retailers. Are you daring enough to try the trend in 2023? Scroll down to see how Cardi B styled it and shop similar pairs for yourself.
Cardi B and Offset’s first date was one to remember. While appearing on “Jimmy Kimmel Live!” in July 2021, the Migos rapper revealed he decided to go “big” by taking Cardi B to Super Bowl LI. “I wanted to do something that was not normally done, you know what I’m saying? I wanted to have fun,” he said. Although he lost a $10K bet over the game, Offset said he “won” a wife that night. “That’s not a bad consolation prize,” host Anthony Anderson said. “Not at all,” Offset responded.
In an April 2018 interview with GQ, Cardi B admitted she was a bit hesitant to go on a date with Offset at first. “I never wanted to date a rapper because I would hate to look crazy in public, like you on a date with me but you f*cking other b*tches?” she explained. However, once Cardi B realized his feelings for her were genuine, she agreed to meet up. “He was like, ‘No, I really like her. I’m really feeling her,’” she said, adding that they officially became a couple soon after the game. “We was talking, we was making out. We didn’t f*ck. After the Super Bowl, it got really serious because I feel, like, all eyes on us.”
Wigs can make or break your Halloween costume. The right one can help you fully transition into the character, celebrity, or creature you’re dressing up as. Whether you’re into a long black style à la Cher, a blunt bob to channel your inner Anna Wintour, or a bold red number that’ll help you impersonate Poison Ivy, there’s certainly something for you in this costume roundup. These 13 picks are bound to be instant hits come October 31.
It’s not every day that Cardi B (or any celebrity, for that matter) is left with no other choice but to utilize a TikTok hack in order to avoid a wardrobe malfunction. But when the 30-year-old musician was on a plane without the assistance of stylist Kollin Carter, she resorted to the latest viral trend. Cardi’s makeup artist and former publicist Patientce Foster acted as her glam squad mid-flight, cinching in her metallic spaghetti-strap dress by wrapping a hair tie around a disc at the back to eliminate some of the excess fabric.
Most TikTok users demonstrate the hack by turning their dresses inside out. Next, they take any circular object, from a bangle to an oversize hoop earring, and place it right where they want the material to become more formfitting. Double-twisting a hair tie around the item gathers the fabric at that exact spot, and once the dress is repositioned properly on the body, there’s a resulting ruched effect in the area. However, it actually makes for a pretty clean detail, and it definitely looks better than a makeshift job done with a needle and thread. Of course, the bonus is that it only takes about 30 seconds to pull off when you’re in a pinch.
Upon reading Cardi’s caption before I pressed play on her X video — “would you try this??? Teamwork make the dream work!!!” — I have to admit, I was skeptical. Maybe it’s because I find emulating TikTok hacks (at least to the same level of visual perfection) to be challenging. The only trick that’s ever worked for me was buttoning my jeans through a belt loop to tighten the waist, and I’ve gained some weight since then, so achieving the off-kilter, deconstructed denim look is no longer necessary, and certainly not possible — at least with that pair.
But the dress-cinching hack actually feels doable and has me wondering how I can manipulate some of my pieces to achieve a different style entirely, even if the design I’m working with already fits. As one user shows below, you can also employ this trick at the front, on either side, or to raise the hemline of your long maxi and perhaps give way to a shoe moment. For example, I could easily bring my Carrie Bradshaw Norma Kamali dress to knee-length height, especially since it’s already got shirred sides. You could probably also maneuver it at the bust, just to alter the shape of the neckline. While this TikTok hack obviously appears different depending on the dress, it’s safe to say it helped Cardi achieve her signature curve-enhancing aesthetic. She opted for voluminous curls and side-swept bangs to finish off the look.
Ahead, see the viral TikTok dress hack in action, and decide how you might work it into your own wardrobe repertoire.
Cardi B is entering her “Bongos” style era. The rapper wore a bright green dress to host her own MTV VMAs afterparty in the early morning hours on Sept. 13, and the vibrant look fits right in with the colorful swimsuits she and Megan Thee Stallion wear in their latest music video. Cardi’s gown was completely sheer, allowing several of her tattoos to peek through, and featured a ruched skirt, crisscross halter neckline, and detached sleeves resembling handless opera gloves.
Working with her go-to stylist Kollin Carter, she accessorized with 6-inch Piferi platforms, a small green Hermès handbag, a stack of gold bangles on each wrist, and hoop earrings. Meanwhile, husband Offset wore a crisp white button-down, shiny black tie, light wash jeans, and a large belt.
It’s been quite the stylish week for Cardi B. At the VMAs, she walked the pink carpet in a custom Dilara Findikoglu gown made of silver hair clips artfully arranged to hug her curves. During the ceremony, she changed into a blue beaded minidress to perform “Bongos” live for the first time with Megan Thee Stallion, who coordinated in a blue cutout bodysuit. Earlier in the week, the mom of two stepped out for a “Watch What Happens Live” appearance in an aqua blue gown covered in cutouts, stopping traffic to strike a pose in the middle of the street. She’s definitely on a high-fashion roll as she gears up to release her second studio album.
After just over three years of letting the dust settle on their wet ass pussies, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have decided that the world is ready again to see them join (oh so powerful) forces. Enter the still sexual innuendo-laden (and just plain sexual) “Bongos.” Which picks up the tempo from “WAP” thanks to production from We Good, Breyan Isaac and DJ SwanQo, all of whom assist Cardi B in putting trap-rap, tropical influences (of both the Afro and Latin variety) and electro-hop into a blender and coming up with something that can best be described as “Thug Carmen Miranda” (which lives up to its implications far more than one of Lana Del Rey’s early nicknames: “Gangster Nancy Sinatra”).
To help cultivate that sound and image, Megan Thee Stallion, who Cardi B has officially described as her “work wife,” layers her own verses into the mix. Something Cardi B realized needed to happen after deeming the single “like a long ass song” (at a mere two minutes and fifty-five seconds; in other words: this is your perception of time on TikTok). Too long for “just” her verses alone. So it was that Cardi invited Megan to team up with her once more. And the result isn’t just a track that gets in your head perhaps even more than “WAP,” but also a video that greatly upstages it. That’s likely because the duo opted to replace Colin Tilley with Tanu Muino (who has also worked with Cardi on the video for Normani’s “Wild Side”) for the sumptuous, “resort-chic” visuals that pop out as much for their colors as the rampant booty-shaking. To match the chaotic rhythm of whoever’s chanting “bong-bong-bong-bong” (this being a parallel to the sample from Frank Ski’s “Whores in This House” in “WAP”), the video seems determined to be equally as frenetic.
In order to create that effect, Muino plays with sharp cuts and plenty of alternating angles to capture different vantage points of the over-the-top choreography set against a “tropical” (a.k.a. Malibu) backdrop. Considering Muino just directed the far more muted and staid “Attention” video for Doja Cat, “Bongos” must have felt like a feast for the eyes in comparison as Muino amplifies the color palettes (as she also did in the video for Elton John and Britney Spears’ “Hold Me Closer”) with her unique directorial prowess. This also materializes when one of the scenes cuts to Cardi in a new Magic Eye-inspired room wearing an ensemble that matches the background. In truth, it seems to be a slight homage to the scenes in the “WAP” video when Cardi and Megan appear in their own separate animal-print rooms to writhe around and deliver their verses with a leopard and white tiger respectively overseeing them.
Meanwhile, Cardi has found plenty of (non sequitur) opportunities for product placement by this time, already plugging Minute Maid Aguas Frescas and Smart Sweets Peach Rings to prove that, “Bitch, I look like money/You could print my face on a dollar.” After all, it’s as the internet says, “You’re not ugly, you’re just poor.” And lining up plenty of endorsement deals to stack more piles of cash is certain to help Cardi continue to cultivate “real hot girl shit” (to borrow Megan Thee Stallion’s catchphrase, which needless to say, is tossed around in the song). Surrounding herself with the same peacocking ilk in the video that Vibe has rightly called a “risqué Fanta commercial” (not to mention how it gives Miley Cyrus some competition on offering “endless summer vacation” motifs), the women in vibrant, multi-toned bathing suits parade themselves against an oceanic setting. Though, sadly, at no point does any image of a plum or nun appear to complement the lyrical gold that is, “Eat this ass like a plum/This pussy tight like a nun.”
Repeating “beat it up” (another nod to Cardi inisiting, “Beat it up, nigga/Catch a charge” in “WAP”) during the refrain as the words “bong-bong-bong-bong” keep swelling in the background, Cardi’s sassy bravado is matched by Megan coming in on her verse to rap, “This ass sit like the stallion/All these wannabes my lil’ ponies/These hoes camped out in the comments/Always talkin’ like they know me/Thick bitches in the black truck, packed in/Eat whoever in my way, Ms. Pacman/Hermès, made a real big purchase/Purse so big, had to treat it like a person.”
She keeps going after that, but it’s mostly about the usual flexes: having a fat ass and a lot of money. Indeed, what would any rap song be without some reinforcement of capitalism’s many glories? Thus, the reason why Cardi derides, “At least I’m gettin’ my money/Y’all hoes broke, pussy took more turns than a keyhole.” This after asserting, “I ain’t scared to admit I’m a freak ho” in honor of similar “WAP” language that goes, “Certified freak/Seven days a week.” With Thee Stallion also noting in their first collab together, “Your honor, I’m a freak bitch.” So yes, it’s comforting to know that, even after the passing of a few years, their freakdom appears to be going even stronger. Complete with their usual enjoyment of engaging in lascivious poses with one another to tease the notion of lesbianism that all cliche men (non-binary or otherwise) still get off on.
As the scenes start to escalate in their nonsensicality—presumably, for the sake of serving haute couture against decadent backdrops (as evident in a “Remember the Time”-esque moment Cardi and Megan have in an “Egyptian-themed” room together)—it starts to add up, cost-wise. Which is why viewers can take Cardi at her word when she says she spent two million dollars to produce it (still chump change compared to what Michael Jackson spent on “Remember the Time”). With many of those expenses spent on the security required to keep a lid on the collaboration (“‘…we hired about twenty guards, fifteen guards just guarding the whole area,’ she said. Cardi also explained they deployed geofencing which issues an alert when a mobile device enters a mapped, pre-established location. They also used special in-ears to avoid having to play the music out loud while Cardi, Megan and their crew of dancers filmed the scenes that incorporated choreography”).
Although the duo might have been able to keep the filming of their second single together a secret had they shot outside of the U.S., apparently hurricane season (now 24/7) made them “settle” for Malibu instead. But if it was good enough for Britney Spears’ “Sometimes” video, then surely it ought to be good enough for them. And, from the vibrant looks of it, it clearly is. Maybe even eye-catching enough to make people forget all about “WAP” (for a while anyway).
Before we bid swimsuit season adieu, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion have a parting gift. On Sept. 8, the rappers released their “Bongos” music video, and it’s filled with enough sultry swimwear moments to tide us over until next summer. The visuals kick off with a group of dancers twerking atop beach chairs in a rainbow array of cutout one-pieces, setting the tone for the vibrant looks to come. Throughout the video, both Cardi and Megan rotate through a series of colorful outfits styled with wild heels, chunky bangles, and feathered headpieces. The entire production is a sartorial work of art.
A whole team of fashion experts helped bring the “Bongos” video to life, and we must give credit where it’s due. Cardi B’s longtime stylist Kollin Carter provided styling direction, tapping designer Matthew Reisman to create most of the one-pieces Cardi B, Megan, and their backup dancers wear. The fuzzy couture hats are by Sarah Sokol and assistant Clare Glenn, and the halo-like feathered headpieces are by Harris Reed in collaboration with Vivienne Lake. Designer Emilio Pucci also customized a colorful abstract print used to not only make a form-fitting catsuit for Cardi B, but also cover an entire couch and room.
“Bongos” marks Cardi and Megan’s first musical collaboration since 2020’s “WAP,” which had a similarly stylish music video. In that visual, they wore corset bodysuits, animal print galore, and slick latex looks, while Normani, Kylie Jenner, and several other stars made cameos wearing outfits that embody the song’s theme of women’s sexuality. One thing’s for sure: we can always count on these two to deliver statement-making looks when they link up.
Join us in soaking up the swimsuit inspiration by admiring every look from the “Bongos” music video ahead.
Cardi B says she and her husband Offset “owe” it to each other to renew their vows one day.
“I owe that to my husband. He owes me that,” the rapper told ET Canada’s Cheryl Hickey when asked if the couple, who’ve been married for six years now, have any plans on renewing their vows since, the last time Cardi spoke with us, she dished about her “very gangsta” wedding to the Migos rapper.
“I’m going all out. I want my bridesmaids to be dancing. I want to do a choreography, one-two step to my man”
“It’s just really the time,” Cardi said of the logistics, explaining that it would be similar to “preparing myself for my wedding” or another extravagant event.
“I feel like it will be almost like preparing yourself for an awards show or something because, first of all, I’m going all out. I want my bridesmaids to be dancing. I want to do a choreography, one-two step to my man,” she explained. “It’s just…we haven’t found the time.”
Cardi and Offset will officially celebrate their 6-year wedding anniversary on September 20. They secretly got married on that same day in 2017 in Atlanta, Georgia after initially getting together that same year.
Cardi B is sharing a long-awaited update about her forthcoming album.
After teasing her first album in five years back in January, the rapper revealed in her Vogue Mexicocover story that she’s “going to publish [her] next solo single,” noting that she’s “not going to release any more collaborations.”
“Now I’m working on the cover and ideas for the next album because it’s definitely coming,” she told the magazine for its September issue. “Everyone always tells me that I should release the album now, they did it when I launched ‘WAP’ and ‘Up’, but I always let them know that I’m not going to wait long to release it after all these singles. So stay tuned because it’s going to come out very soon.”
The cover star’s last full-length album was 2018’s Invasion Of Privacy.
“I also have plans in the world of cinema,” she continued. “In fact I have plans to do everything I can: fashion, branding, I want to do it all, honey.”
Aside from chatting about her future endeavours, Cardi, 30, also addressed criticism over her career and marriage to Offset.
The Bronx native asserted that she “[doesn’t] have room to fail [or] lose” due to “a revolution in social media” where she gets “judged” online way more than other female rappers do.
“People today have become more sensitive, but also more brutal,” she elaborated. “When I started using the internet, I didn’t get so much into the lives of artists, I didn’t want to cancel them, much less hate them or ruin their lives.”
She went on to explain how haters inspired her and Offset to release their new single, “Jealousy”.
“My husband and I wanted to make a song like this after the haters didn’t stop talking about us,” she shared. “There are many people who always tell us things, that they are attacking us all the time, and we wanted to take all that weight off our shoulders. We were very tired of responding to people on the internet and we decided to better put it in music.”
Cardi then addressed her husband’s cheating allegations, specifically how difficult it is to process her feelings amid online opinions.
“If you love somebody and you stop being with them, and you’re depressed and social media is telling you not to talk to that person because he cheated, you’re not really happy on the inside until you have the conversation,” she explained. “Then, if you get back with them, it’s like, ‘how could you? You let all of us down.’” People that be in marriages for years, when they say ’til death do us part,’ they not talking about little arguments like if you leave the fridge open. That’s including everything.”
His public efforts on behalf of Trump, with partner Marissa Goldberg, have been fairly aggressive. When Findling’s hiring was announced last August he labeled Willis’s inquiry “an erroneous and politically driven persecution.” In February, he strongly criticized Emily Kohrs,the forewoman of the Fulton County special purpose grand jury investigating Trump, for giving interviews. “This type of carnival, clown-like atmosphere that was portrayed over the course of the last 36 hours takes away from the complete sanctity and the integrity and, for that matter, the reliability [of the investigation],” Findling told the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. He followed up in March by filing a motion attacking Willis’s conduct and seeking to quash the grand jury’s final report. Obviously that didn’t work, and now the skirmishing will likely grow far more intense.
Findling, 63, has come a very long way from his scuffling childhood in Coram, New York, a blue-collar Long Island town, where, from the age of eight, he was raised by a single mother who worked as a grocery store cashier. A track scholarship took Findling to Atlanta’s Oglethorpe University; he stayed in town to attend law school at Emory. He went from the public defender’s office to his own firm, where, among many other cases, Findling won the battered spouse acquittal of a woman who had doused her husband with gasoline and set him on fire, and a not guilty verdict, on 27 felony counts, for Victor Hill, a county sheriff accused of racketeering (it was the Hill case, Findling says, that motivated another Trump Atlanta attorney, Jennifer Little, to reach out to him last year).
But it wasn’t until 2013 that Findling became a star beyond courthouse circles. He took on a client named Radric Davis, who had been arrested for hitting a soldier with a Champagne bottle in a nightclub. Findling wasn’t aware that Davis was far better known as Gucci Mane, or that the alleged victim was apparently a fan who wanted a photo with Gucci. The trap pioneer was at a low point, struggling with drugs; Findling helped turn his life around, negotiating a federal plea deal for possession of a firearm by a felon, then attaining Gucci Mane’s early release from prison. Since then Findling has become a favorite of Atlanta rap royalty, including Waka Flocka Flame and Migos. He has always dressed the part, in a Miami Vice kind of way, with slick-backed hair, dark sunglasses, and windowpane suits; Findling’s Instagram page, run by one of his sons, has picked up 240,000 followers.
So when Cardi B was charged with felony assault in connection with the attacks on two women in a Queens strip club, her husband, Georgia-native rapper Offset, knew just the guy for her to call. The case dragged on for four years, but Cardi ultimately pleaded guilty to two misdemeanors. “Cardi thinks Drew is the best lawyer she’s ever worked with, and she also considers him a friend,” says her manager, Shawn Holiday. The rapper is a fiercely outspoken Democrat who endorsed Bernie Sanders in the 2020 election cycle; what does she make of Findling taking on Trump as a client? “No comment,” Holiday says. (A representative for Cardi told The New Yorker that “she gave him shit about it.” “She did not,” Findling tells me. “She’s been 100% supportive.”)
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“I am not a ‘rapper’ attorney,” Findling says, estimating that hip-hop clients are a mere 5% of his firm’s business and pointing to major commodities trading and political corruption cases on its record. The Trump case, though, is the one that is giving Findling a national profile and that is calling into question the consistency of his ideals. In 2020, Findling posted a nearly five-minute video invoking the memory of his recently deceased mother as he passionately praised the Black Lives Matter movement. Last June, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision overturning Roe v. Wade, he declared on Instagram that he would “commit my law firm to fighting to restore a woman’s right to choose which has been destroyed by the Supreme Court.” Defending Trump—who Findling’s firm has so far billed for at least $800,000—would seem to run counter to those values. “I believe in this defense, and I believe in everything we’re saying,” he says. “It has nothing at all to do with the past—it has to do with this case, and my commitment to my client’s innocence in this case. Which I believe in.”
Cardi B has always understood the assignment. As a first-time attendee at the Met Gala in 2018, she raised the stakes in an ornate Moschino by Jeremy Scott gown embroidered with thousands of pearls and gemstones. The sparkling beadwork was sartorial magic made richer by her dramatic headpiece and bejeweled pregnancy bump. In 2019, she became the pearl in a vintage Mugler gown from the designer’s fall 1995 collection at the 2019 Grammy Awards. Complete with a transparent bodice and a flared clamshell skirt, the design asserted elegance, charm, and an over-the-top avant-garde style that has become a defining element of her wardrobe ever since.
For nearly a decade, Cardi B has been gracing the red carpet with flawless looks, due in large part to the talented eye of her primary stylist, Kollin Carter. Together, the pair have given us moments like her quilted burgundy gown at the 2019 Met Gala. Against the star-studded backdrop, Cardi B shone in the extravagant Thom Brown piece, embellished with feather accents, a sequin headpiece, and a cascading train. Again, she stopped photographers in their tracks when she arrived at the 2021 “Thierry Mugler: Couturissime” museum-exhibit opening in a feathered fantasy gown pulled straight from the designer’s ’90s archives.
As one of the most influential women rappers in the hip-hop world, Cardi B is decorated with dozens of awards — including a Grammy and seven American Music Awards — and rightfully so. Lyrically, the Bronx-born rapper always gives us her all, delivering unfiltered verses and an ardent passion as she details her past struggles and whirlwind rise to the top. She brings this same unapologetic vibrancy to every head-turning ensemble.
From award shows and red carpets to onstage performances, Cardi B’s style never misses. Sorting through her entire style catalog would take weeks, but as part of POPSUGAR’s celebration of women in hip-hop for the genre’s 50th anniversary, we rounded up 25 of her most memorable outfits to give you a taste of her unforgettable wardrobe through the years. See Cardi B’s incredible style evolution ahead.
Offset has had enough of the rumor that Cardi B cheated on him — even though he started it.
The Migos rapper dropped by “Way Up With Angela Yee” on Monday to clear up questions about supposed infidelity in his household. The only reason Offset needed to, however, is because he claimed on Instagram in June: “My wife fucked a N***a on me.”
“That post, to be honest — it’s my wife, I love her to death — we’re going back and forth,” Offset told Yee. “And if you got a New York woman, you know she’s a pitbull at the mouth. She get crazy at the mouth a little bit, and I was on some. I was really lit that night.”
“I was lit,” he continued. “A little Casamigos, you know. I was lit and then we going back and forth and I’m like, ‘Watch this.’ You know. She got a crazy mouth but I love my wife at the end of the day — and she crazy, man. I’m crazy. We’re crazy for each other.”
When asked if he thought any additional work was needed to mend his alcohol-induced claim, or if deleting it from Instagram was enough, Offset was adamant — and said his wife’s fans are always bringing up his self-admitted infidelity in a previous relationship.
“The delete is enough,” he said. “Because at the end of the day, them people don’t be really knowing what’s going on with us for real. They always attacking, it’ll be straight lies. … I hate the fact that every time she have an issue with somebody else, they bringing me up.”
Cardi B and Offset have been married since 2017 and have had two kids together.
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Offset added that he’s tired of “clearing my name” whenever he and Cardi have an issue, because both he and his Grammy-winning wife have “so much business and big things going on” in the public eye that he’s always “in the middle” of a gossip hurricane.
“I support my wife,” he told Yee, before adding: “You get fed up at a certain point in time. They be trying to mess up my household with cap. And then trying to bring up my past. And then I can’t get past my past. So that shit ain’t fair.”
While he denied cheating on Cardi, Offset agreed that a person can be unfaithful and still be in love with their partner. He also said he “can’t personally speak on why men cheat,” before offering a rather honest explanation for his own past behavior.
“Sometimes you feel like you bump heads when you’re not communicating ’cause it’s like hidden gems,” Offset told Yee. “We both front-center-stage, all our business is always public. Communication is what it was. I was on different shit, I was on lean, too.”
Leave it to Cardi B to nail the latest in sultry trends. The New York-born rapper is no stranger to rocking figure-flattering silhouettes, and her most recent look is no exception. For her new collaborative single “Jealousy” with husband Offset, the 30-year-old artist wore outfits that showed off her curves, toned abs, and, of course, impressive tattoo collection.
Cardi B is first seen in two alluring ensembles — a nude satin robe that quickly transitions to a metallic thong bodysuit featuring a plunging neckline and lace-up hardware, completely showing off her butt tattoos. She then switches things up with a Barbiecore-inspired look while rapping in front of a vintage car. The outfit was featured in an Instagram teaser post just days before the song’s release. The ensemble in question includes a pink cutout top that bares her cleavage, pink clear platform shoes to match, and the most attention-grabbing detail of all: blue high-waisted jeans with the word “jealousy” bedazzled across the back pockets. Accessorized with an array of silver jewelry, a lengthy pink manicure, and her hair done in a ’90s-inspired half-up, half-down style, the look is iconic.
The “WAP” rapper has developed quite the reputation for rocking catsuits and thongs. Earlier this month, she debuted a velvet bodysuit in the “Point Me 2” video with FendiDa Rappa, and she left little to the imagination in a brown thongkini bottom while promoting the song on her Instagram page. She’s produced other style moments that showcase her affinity for dramatic pieces, including her sartorial takeover at Paris Haute Couture Week that included a feathered black Schiaparelli coat and dress combination, an oversize men’s blazer repurposed as a two-piece skirt suit by Thom Browne, and a massive white tulle coat for the Balenciaga show.
Keep scrolling for stills of Cardi B’s looks in the “Jealousy” video.
A concertgoer has filed a report with the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department (LVMPD) after being “struck by an item that was thrown from the stage,” police said in a statement to CNN Monday.
Police did not mention Cardi B in their statement, but the address on the incident report matches the location where she was performing on Saturday.
“According to the victim, she was attending an event on July 29, 2023, at a property located in the 3500 block of Las Vegas Boulevard. During a concert, she was struck by an item that was thrown from the stage,” authorities said.
No arrest or citation as been issued, according to police.
CNN previously reported that Cardi B was performing at Drai’s Beach Club in Las Vegas over the weekend, when an audience member threw a drink toward the stage, as see in video footage posted to social media.
In the clip, the rapper is seen getting splashed with liquid from the cup while performing her 2018 hit “Bodak Yellow.” Cardi B quickly reacted by throwing her microphone into the audience as security guards rushed to the stage and into the crowd.
CNN has reached out to the Clark County District Attorney’s office for comment, and have reached out to the LVMPD public records department for a copy of the police report.
The incident in Las Vegas on Saturday is just the latest in a slew of similar scenes at concerts where artists have become the target of objects thrown at them while on stage, with some artists suffering injuries as a result.
Only recently have performers gotten involved with their audience members when seeing behavior they do not approve of.
CNN has reached out to a representative for Cardi B for comment.
It used to seem so glamorous to be an “entertainer.” Yet even that word has connotations of being like a monkey with cymbals, “programmed” to perform no matter what the conditions or state of will and desire. In the latest instance of pelting something at musicians onstage (following the illustrious Bebe Rexha incident), Cardi B has proven herself to be a rare (but expected) rejector of “taking shit.” Or rather, “taking drink.” One that was splashed in her general direction as she was in the middle of partially lip-syncing “Bodak Yellow” at Drai’s Beachclub in Las Vegas. A town not exactly known for harboring people with the best etiquette (as Adele tried to anticipate). After all, it’s still considered America’s playground. Except that Cardi B wasn’t playing when she reacted to a large splash of someone’s drink getting deliberately thrown in her general direction by tossing a microphone back at that person. Though “tossing” is too soft a word for the pelting wrath she exhibited.
To add to the surreal, ironic quality of it all, the lyrics playing as Cardi launched the mic at the woman (yes, it was a woman) who sloshed her drink were, “If I see you and I don’t speak, that means I don’t fuck with you/I’m a boss, you a worker bitch/I make bloody moves.” How eerily apropos. Not just because things got violent, but because of how the fan/entertainer dynamic has been inverted of late. Where once famous people were endlessly confident about their role as the “superior” party, things have shifted to a point where fans feel entitled to demand more from the people they “admire” as they realize that, “technically,” they’re the ones who employ the celebrity. Keep expensive shelter over their head, posh food on their table and designer clothes on their back.
So just as fans giveth, so can they taketh away. A reality Doja Cat was faced with recently when she went off on fans giving her grief for dating J.Cyrus, an “entertainer” himself, one supposes. His history of sexual misconduct (in addition to some unearthed racist tweets for good measure) have drawn ire from those who wanted Doja Cat to explain herself. In response, she said, “I don’t give a fuck what you think about my personal life, I never have and never will give a fuck what you think about me and my personal life. Goodbye and good riddance miserable hoes haha!” She then went on to degrade her fans by giving such “fiery” “advice” as, “If you call yourself a ‘kitten’ or fucking ‘kittenz’ that means you need to get off your phone and get a job and help your parents with the house.”
Ah, the old jobist insult. But what sat even less well with her “Kittenz” was the fact that when a fan wrote in the comments section that they just wanted to hear her say she loved them, Doja spat back, “I don’t though cuz I don’t even know yall.” Where’s the lie? And yet, it’s the closest any celebrity has come to outright admitting how pathetic they think their fans are, and really, just need them for the cash. Except that Doja has also insisted she doesn’t actually need them anymore. Not just because she’s already rich now, but because she wants to emphasize that it was she who did the work to get where she is today. And yet, the complicated reality is that, without those legions of fans who paid attention to her from the beginning, she wouldn’t have those mountains of cash to fall back on after speaking her blunt, Liar Liar-level truth to them.
This serves as the crux of the issue at hand of late for why fans feel an entitlement to celebrities as their “property” (much the same way employers do with their employees, ergo treating them with similar acts of abusive behavior that an employer themselves would never suffer). In a manner that society has never really seen before. And yes, the evolution of the internet commingling with fame and how it interacts with fans is a key part of that.
Taylor Swift, who has become a master in the art of cultivating parasocial relationships with her fans, knows something about that, too. And she wants “Swifties” to believe the contrary of what Doja has been touting. That she really cares about them and their well-being. Sure, maybe she does (at least enough to break up with Matty Healy due to the backlash against him). That is, as much as one can care about an endless sea of amorphous faces flashing the cash, so to speak, from the crowd. Her far more amenable attitude has translated into astronomical profits as she continues to parade her Eras Tour. Which, like Beyoncé’s Renaissance Tour, has created entire micro-economies in every town it stops in. Funnily enough, it was a Swiftie who waded into the comments section of Doja’s “I don’t even know yall” moment to explain the fan perspective on things: “And we don’t know you. But we supported you through thick and thin. Mind you you’d be nothing without us. You’d be working at a grocery store making songs on garageband miss high school dropout.” Maybe a bit harsh, but, to be fair, Doja’s willful lack of education shines through on songs like “Get Into It (Yuh).”
Cardi B, who is also rarely known for censoring herself or her emotions, seems to be better adept at showcasing the idea that, ultimately, her fans are just consumers (and there’s really nothing too personal about that). Hence, her innumerable product deals ranging from Pepsi to Reebok to…Whip Shots. Thus, it’s harder to mistake that “Cardi” is a brand she wants to sell for the benefit of Belcalis…and her family with Offset. The subject of which has provided narrative fodder for her latest collaboration with him, “Jealousy.” It is in said video that, incidentally, Cardi launches a shoe at Offset as he leaves their apartment in a huff. Don’t say she didn’t warn anyone who trifled with her that she has a knack for aiming unexpected objects when vexed. In fact, before she threw the microphone at her “fan,” she had already gotten into another altercation at Drai’s Beachclub with the DJ who cut her song off early. So admittedly, Cardi can be a little too quick to react with her microphone sometimes. And in the now viral video, you can see how it takes her only a split second to counterattack with that launch of a much more damaging object than liquid.
While the likes of Bebe Rexha and Ava Max were too stunned to instantaneously retaliate for the far more damaging abuse they got onstage, Cardi seems to have patently decided: enough. Almost like the barrage of employees during the Great Resignation who were struck with the overdue epiphany that they “didn’t have to take it anymore,” Cardi seems to have come to the same conclusion by actually fighting back against the “boss” who forgot that “workers” hold all the power. Until they need more money…
Cardi B wasn’t having it with an audience member and threw her microphone at them after they tossed their drink in her direction at a Las Vegas show on Saturday.
The rapper, who performed on a bill with Moneybagg Yo at Drai’s Beachclub, was performing her hit “Bodak Yellow” when the concertgoer hurled the liquid at her from the crowd.
Cardi, who looked surprised by the act, tossed the mic in the concertgoer’s direction before security appeared to shuffle them away from the stage.
HuffPost has reached out to a representative for Cardi B as well as Drai’s Beachclub. Both were not available for immediate comment.
Cardi later retweeted a video of the encounter with the caption “Jealous Ass Bitch,” a nod to her new single “JEALOUSY” with her husband Offset.
The microphone toss occurs amid a trend of fans throwing objects at – or hitting entertainers – in recent weeks.
The rapper’s weekend reportedly included another mic toss at Drai’s Beachclub, as well.
Cardi appeared to fling her mic toward a DJ who fans allege cut her tracks short during a performance at the venue on Friday, according to a TikTok video.
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