Cardi B swarmed while she was distributing free winter coats in Brooklyn

The metal barricades could barely contain the hundreds of fans lined up in Brooklyn on Thursday as superstar Cardi B handed over free winter coats to the masses gathered.

The rapper, who hails from the Bronx, went southeast to the Kings Borough to the Marlboro homes in Gravesend. The Marlboro Houses are a massive real estate project managed by the city and composed of 30 different buildings.

Cardi was a little late, but there was no complaint from the crowd.

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"I love her music and she is a heroine to me, and it's she who inspired me for music," said a girl at ABC WABC's New York radio station. waiting for the star of the pop star.

Temperatures dropped to 40 degrees in the city Thursday night and should be even colder this weekend.

"It's good, it's very good that she does this for people, really, because we here need a lot of help," said a woman to WABC.

Even Cardi B herself did not realize that there would be so many people at the event.

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"I did not know it was going to be so big," Cardi B told WABC. "My boy Chuck, he said to me," Hey, give out coats to our community, I know someone who wants to distribute coats to Marlboro, "and I said," I'm going out , what's up? "

Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, has had tremendous success in the last two years. His first and only studio album, "Invasion of Privacy", was released in April and has risen to the top of the charts in the US and Canada. The album has been certified twice platinum by the Recording Industry of America for over 2 million sales.

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His first single, "Bodak Yellow", is sold to more than 6 million copies. All in all, she has six platinum singles and has appeared on four other platinum songs as a contributor.

She gave birth to her first child earlier this year, a girl named Kulture Kiari Cephus, along with her husband, rapper Migos Offset.

She joked Tuesday night on "Jimmy Kimmel Live" that she should have become a mother earlier in life.

"I appreciate it's the best, it's like, oh my god," she said during the interview. "I should have taken you when I was a teenager, was that what I missed all my life? I love you."

ABC News & # 39; Karma Allen contributed to this report.