She started hosting parties (her job was to “get things turnt up”) and gathered 80,000 followers as a hot girl with a wicked sense of humor on Instagram. Stripping “saved me,” she has said, meaning the money made her independent. By 19, she was living with a boyfriend who, she says, abused her. Growing up with a cab-driving Dominican dad and a strict Trinidadian mom who worked as a cashier, Cardi, born Belcalis Almanzar, rebelled early, fighting with her mom and misbehaving at school.
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She’s a Caribbean queen purveying the Latin-trap sound (see her Top 10 hit and song-of-the-summer candidate “I Like It”) she’s an ex-stripper with butt injections who’s after your money she’s a possible former member of the Bloods and such a city girl that she never got a driver’s license and says today that she still carries a knife. Once positioning herself as little more than a “regular, degular, shmegular girl from the Bronx,” she’s transformed into a multimedia artist with powerful facets to her personality both on and off the stage. In the year or so since she’s become hip-hop’s breakout star, Cardi has come to represent the best of what we value as a country: She’s our irrepressibly cute, sexy, silly, filthy-mouthed Binderella who bootstrapped her way from the streets to celebrity. “She’s going to have a fit.” Cardi laughs, but then appears to think this over. “Don’t let Mama see you drinking that red wine,” says one of them, referring to Offset’s mom. Offset’s family was laughing, but this makes them stop. Nah.” She gets a mischievous look on her face.
in the backyard, eating, cooking hors d’oeuvres. “I don’t like baby showers that be at 5 p.m. because that’s how I celebrate, that’s how Caribbean people celebrate.” She lets out one of her trademark cackles. “My baby shower’s not starting at no 5:00. “I want a lit baby shower,” she declares, waving around a bejeweled finger that catches the light of a grand chandelier hanging behind her while echoing an earlier thought. She closes her eyes, contemplating her to-do list. “Ballplayer, my ass!” Cardi replies, shaking her head. “You got it like that, you’re a ballplayer,” one says to her. They listen and nod along, then try to boost her confidence. She’s saying this to a couple of members of Offset’s extended family who have dropped by for a visit, one of them carrying an infant in tiny white, spotlessly clean sneakers. See behind the scenes of the Rolling Stone cover shoot with Cardi B and Offset
All she needs to do is enjoy the next seven weeks before she becomes a mom.
The exhausting pace of the past months – spent recording songs, perfecting a raft of lush videos and hiding her belly from the paparazzi – is receding now. We are in the late stages of Cardi’s pregnancy and she’s finally wrapped the promotion for her first album, Invasion of Privacy, which topped the charts and set a record for the most first-week streams by a female artist on Apple Music. Half zoning out, half watching Avatar, about a different princess and her race to save a far-off moon, she lets out a deep sigh. She eats a salad, manages the feat of typing on her phone with three-inch rhinestone-encrusted fake nails, and relaxes into a leather chair. Waking up late, Cardi pads around the house barefoot in a yellow cotton dress pulled tight over her swollen, nearly seven-and-a-half-months-pregnant belly. Cardi, 25, and Offset, 26, are buying a new home shortly, and building a dream house too. By the curved dark-wood door, his friends smoke blunts in tracksuits as bright as British guardsmen’s jackets. This is her fiancé’s castle – he’s Offset from Migos – and there are enough six-figure cars parked outside to form a small-town parade. One humid afternoon in Atlanta, Cardi B, the new princess of hip-hop, wakes up in an endless white mansion flanked by tall trees.
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