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The Next Queen of Rap: Could It B?

Cardi B. Knockin' 'Em All out the Box

By Kimm SmithPublished 6 years ago 4 min read
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"These is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes."

Any Cardi B fan knows that if she had a hook to one of her most popular songs, that would be it. Although the Cardi B song "Bodak Yellow" doesn't really have a hook, it has still taken over the Billboard charts with its funky and choppy rhythms and bad ass lyrics. "Look I don't dance now. I make money moves..." Referring back to her stripper days when she was friendly with the pole, Cardi lets her competition know that those days are over and that bitches can fuck with her if they want to.

So exactly who are these bitches that Cardi B dares to fuck with her? The list is short, and to take a few words from sister rapper Remy Ma since she has been out of jail, she really doesn't know who's been holding down the female rap game. Of course, Nicki Minaj and Azealia Banks were both offended—Minaj having a right to be. Banks, not so much. We have yet to hear what Remy Ma thinks of Cardi B because she is too busy bickering, shall we say, with Nicki Minaj. While Minaj and Remy Ma are arguing on the mic, Cardi B is slip-sliding past both of them to now have five hit records on the Billboard charts. Nothing is stopping Ms. B, not her sister rappers or her rocky relationship with the Migos's rapper, Offset.

It appears that Cardi has knocked Queen Bey out the ring with her chart topping hits, one of them even rapped in Spanish, Ozuna, with the group La Modela. But with all the newly found fame, Cardi has already seen the ugly side; people saying she raps with the same beat on all her records, which a bit of listening will prove untrue, and the disloyalty among her peers. This vixen is like Madonna, Lil Kim, and J. Lo mixed together, and what a combo. She has a serious work ethic and chooses to call out bitches in her music and not on Instagram.

Cardi may do a lot of shit talking, but most of it is about herself and her own life. The other female rappers in her game should take serious hints from this whirlwind of rap. Instead of worrying about each other, there should be some mad collabs going on instead of focusing on competition. Superstar Bruno Mars took the bait and has Cardi on his new hit single that is on fire on the charts, called "Finesse." Cardi does change up her style to compliment this dance single and to match Bruno's style, so here she gives the finger to all those naysayers that say she always sounds the same.

The word on the streets, meaning Twitter, goes both ways for Cardi. She has super fans that worship her style and others say it is her racial ambiguity and her looks that got her where she is—at the top of the charts. One has to say that she has rocketed to fame in a very short amount of time, but in a way, this negates the work she has done to get there. She has taken herself from stripper to star and all of it wasn’t easy. She wasn’t taken seriously at first, and everyone, like Remy Ma and Banks, fell asleep, not really giving us their A game. Remy Ma says, since she has been out of prison, no one has set the female rap game on fire, but she was wrong about that one. She just wasn’t paying enough attention.

As Cardi B sits on her throne in her video for "Bodak Yellow," which, by the way, is a play on the name of rapper Kodak Black and his rapping style, she is showing everyone what is next for Ms. B, and that is the title Queen of Rap that has been held by some of the best, like Lil Kim, Queen Latifah—who crowned herself along with the magic she created on the mic, along with the likes of rapper/singer/writer/producer, Missy Elliott. Some may ride Cardi about her rapping style and some say she can’t rap at all. It really doesn't matter. However, despite what some people think, only the charts matter, which Cardi has in her control right now.

Will she last and go down in history like a Queen Latifah? It’s hard to say. There have been many stars who have shined brightly only to fizzle out as quickly as they rose. We will have to see if Cardi B will keep outshining the rest of the ladies and gentlemen, dare we say, in the rap game.

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Kimm Smith

I am. The art and the artist. Expansive always seeking to learn. I write, sing, counsel, make things, read Tarot and oracle. Make my own cards. I make, I create but mostly I'm me.

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