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born October 11, 1992. Belcalis Almanzar is an American rapper and songwriter, as well as a television and social media personality, and actress. Born and raised in the Bronx borough of New York City, she first embarked in a career as an exotic dancer and began to receive public attention as she built a large Internet following; coupled with her "no filter attitude",she became an internet celebrity through Instagram.In 2015, she became a regular cast member of the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York. In February 2017, she signed her first major label record deal with Atlantic Records. Her debut single for Atlantic, titled "Bodak Yellow", reached number one on the US Billboard Hot 100 chart, with the New York Times calling it "the rap anthem of the summer".
Her Cinderella story for the age of social media. Or as Lindsay Zoladz argued on The Ringer last week, “That wouldn’t be quite right. The Cinderella myth relies on some sort of ruse, a shamed secrecy about the truth of a woman’s past, and the outside agency of both a fairy godmother and a prince. Cardi B trimmed all that extra stuff from the story. She restructured the fairy tale into a one-woman show.” She started out as a stripper. She managed to accumulate 9 million followers over years of experimentation on Instagram and Vine. She translated that following into a spot on Love & Hip-Hop: New York, then realized she could rap.
“Vine and Instagram and Twitter taught her concision and what resonates with an audience,” Zoladz pointed out. “What is a viral phrase if not a spoken-word hook? Why wait for someone else to sample an idea as funny as ‘a hoe never gets cold’? Why not just turn it into a song yourself?” In the last year, Cardi has put out two mixtapes, Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, and now she has her first No. 1 song (a whim of a freestyle that didn’t appear on either tape). She’s managed to milk social media stardom for all its worth, which, as it turns out, is a lot.
So here, take a few minutes and celebrate:
"Like, damn, why'd it have to be Taylor Swift? I like her, I like that damn song," the rapper joked, just before singing a bit of the "Look" chorus.
See her reaction to going No. 1 in the video above.
The battle for the spot was one of the most well-attended Twitter sporting events of the last month. Anyone with an investment in a true come-up story was tweeting to stream “Bodak Yellow,” while Swift fans insisted on “LWYMMD streaming parties” to keep her single on top. Die-hard Nicki Minaj fans joined them, eager to deprive Cardi of an achievement the “true” queen of rap hadn’tsecured yet. They tweeted “#StreamLWYMMD,” too, making an unlikely alliance where there was once a lot of uh, sorry, bad blood.
Cardi B Reacts to 'Bodak Yellow' Going No. 1, Says She Will Drop a Freestyle
According to Billboard, Cardi B was feeling "really good" and "very emotional" celebrating her No. 1 hit "Bodak Yellow" at Atlantic Records'headquarters in New York City Monday (Sept. 25).
She took the top spot on the Hot 100's latest chart, which makes her the first female rapper since Lauryn Hill -- with 1998's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" -- to have a No. 1 single without any guest appearances on the track.
"It was a lovely surprise," Cardi told Billboard. "It was kinda like a close race. It was like when Obama was running for president. I'm like, 'Ahhhhh!'"
The rapper had tweeted to fans that she'd release a new song if "Bodak
Yellow" topped the chart. While she won't be revealing her second single
just yet, she said she will be dropping "a freestyle that I did with my
whole entire cockroach heart -- 'cause my heart is very little, like a
cockroach
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