The Ubiquity of Cardi B (Working Title) #MustSee

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Whether you love her, hate her, or are indifferent; whether you think she is a skilled rapper or believe she is a flash in a pan, Cardi B is winning. At the present moment, Cardi B, is ubiquitous. She is in our music, on our televisions, and soon to be in women’s make up cabinets as she adds her name to the products of, who I call “Fashion Daddy,” Tom Ford. Even after dealing with the not so fresh press following her dust up with NIcki Minaj at a NYFW event she still managed to prove that her brand was still well in tact.

The Bronx born, half Trinidadian (her mother), half Dominican (her father, hence her Latina sounding last name) is currently dominating radio, streaming services and downloads. She is seamlessly weaving her way through various genres as her presence is seen in not just Hip Hop music but also, RnB, and most recently, Pop. She formerly had the highest selling opening week of any female artist, before Carrie Underwood’s recent album release, with 255,000 equivalent units her first week of sales tracking. She is turning out almost all the worldwide music festivals, even having to cancel form some after the birth of her daughter, Kulture, amassing fans from all over the world in the process. However, recently she did something that no other female rapper was able to do: she has amassed three number one Billboard Hot 100 hits. Not only is this a special feat because it was attained while riding high on the success of her debut, but two of her chart toppers were tracks from her debut album with her first number one hit, 2017’s Summer banger, Bodak Yellow, was a chart topping hit with no features. Therefore, none of her detractors are allowed to take away her shine by surmising that her success is based on her features or being linked to other famous rappers.

As is the case with fame and fortune, detractors and the proverbial “haters” show themselves and either with hard or by chance began to tear down whatever palace of success an artist of the moment may be attempting to achieve. People who supported her in 2017 now dig through her social media past to come up with “problematic material” in order to take away highlight any perceived ignorance, or ‘ratchet behavior” as some have termed it. The price of ubiquity and fame. We love to see them rise but we gush as they fall. Most of her ardent fans and your  casual listener applaud her for her authenticity and ability to speak on matters whether her own or any topic in general, with a raw, urbane, assertiveness that is familiar to some but very much her own.

Cardi hasn’t exactly helped herself at all times.There was also the bar brawl at Angel’s Strip Cub in Queens where two woman bartenders got into a scuffle with members of Cardi B’s entourage in which they were alleged “to have thrown furniture recklessly, causing injuries to employees’ feet and legs” according to USA today. However this law suit ends it will most likely end in someone in Cardi’s 

Lil Kim, Missy Elliot, Nicki Minaj are the women rappers you think of first when discussing mass appeal, financial success and groundbreaking music, visuals and videos ( unless you are from my generation and above and you think of Mc Lyte, Queen Latifah, Monie Love, Nikki D, YoYo, etc. But that is another article soon to come). Nicki couldn’t exist without Lil Kim, Missy was in a league all her own, Foxy Brown was too busy being messy. Queen Latifah went on to

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