Tag: Cardi B
The Cardi B Problem: Rebuking The Party Not Responsible
A large part of Cardi B’s career (apart from being built on sympathy and payola) has found its audience in the women who can undeniably [Read More…]
The Feud That Escalated Between Nicki Minaj and Cardi B Speaks to the “Crash” Conundrum of Blackness
Crash was, like La La Land, one of those Oscar-hyped/winning films that people instantaneously lauded before ripping it a new asshole for being “contrived” and [Read More…]
Anything Cardi Did Solange Did Better
The altercation between Cardi B and Nicki Minaj (instigated by the former) that occurred at the Harper’s Bazaar ICONS party in honor of New York Fashion [Read More…]
“Ring” & “Telephone”: Similar in Visuals & Opposite in Lyrical Motif
Proving that no matter how objectively “bad” an album is, it can still have any number of endless hits, Cardi B’s latest single from Invasion [Read More…]
Kulture Shock
Almost as surely as Beyoncé is arching her brow over Cardi B’s very poseur-ish baby gender and name reveal Instagram post, Kulture Kiari Cephus is [Read More…]
Like the Rest of Us, J. Lo Ignores the Demise of Capitalism With “Dinero”
Before Jennifer Lopez rolled out the music video for “Dinero,” she unleashed the first live performance of it at the Billboard Music Awards, where, as [Read More…]
Cardi B Calls Upon Her Dominican Roots More So Than Usual for “I Like It” Video
The primary source of all contempt for Cardi B, it would seem, does stem from this notion that she is playing a caricature (to borrow [Read More…]
All Weddings Should Be Funerals: Cardi B’s Video for “Be Careful” Replicates Kill Bill/Jhené Aiko Motifs
Despite Cardi B deleting her Instagram account after Azealia Banks called her “a caricature of a black woman,” she came back on the social media [Read More…]
“Girls” Is Neither A Fitting Homage to “Lady Marmalade” Nor Genuine In Its Fair-weather Bisexuality
Long ago, during a time when George W. Bush was coming to the twilight of his presidency and presumably thinking about, well, not much of [Read More…]
“Hip Hop” Continues to Jump the Shark on Invasion of Privacy
One wants nothing more than to give Cardi B the benefit of the doubt after the infiltration of “Bodak Yellow” into all of our lives [Read More…]
