For someone who only started rapping a few years ago, that stylistic versatility is striking - it shows Cardi to be a quick study. She has also been the most reliable hip-hop guest star of the last 12 months, with appearances on G-Eazy’s “No Limit,” Migos’s “MotorSport,” Ozuna’s “La Modelo” and the remix of Bruno Mars’s “Finesse” - she has yet to release a dud. Few artists of any kind are so visibly and infectiously enthused.Īs a result, the appetite for her is insatiable, and the career milestones are coming fast and furious: co-hosting “The Tonight Show” alongside Jimmy Fallon, appearing on the covers of various magazines, announcing her pregnancy during a performance on “Saturday Night Live.” Cardi proves it’s a lie: The skills she has been deploying to hilarious effect in her other careers are exactly the ones that make her music so invigorating.
And on “Thru Your Phone,” she’s convincingly broken by an untrustworthy partner: “I might just cut all the tongues out your sneakers/Smash your TV from Best Buy/You gon’ turn me into Left Eye.”Īnd yet, that is partly a hip-hop myth deployed by gatekeepers. On “She Bad” and “I Do,” she raps about sex with the assertiveness and raw detail of Lil’ Kim or Too Short. Here alone are three possible Cardis: switchblade Cardi, empowerment-seminar Cardi, pan-Latin-unifier Cardi. “I Like It,” featuring the Puerto Rican rapper-singer Bad Bunny and the Colombian lite-reggaeton star J Balvin, is undeniable, both for its smoothness and also its revising of “I Like It Like That,” the boogaloo classic by Pete Rodriguez. The Cardi of this concise and purposeful album is as confident on the breezy trap anthem “Drip” (featuring Migos, which includes her fiancé, Offset) as on the power-of-positive-thinking sermon “Best Life,” featuring sermonizer Chance the Rapper. Much as Cardi B’s ascent to music stardom has been unconventional, so is her approach to maintaining her place there. Cardi B’s debut album is “Invasion of Privacy.” Credit.
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