Cardi B remains consistent, counts his "money": NPR

Cardi B has just released his first solo single after his first album, April & # 39; s Violation of privacy.

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Cardi B has just released his first solo single after his first album, April & # 39; s Violation of privacy.

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Bags in the coupe, bustin & # 39; on the roof. The tale and bomber Bronx Cardi B has just shared "Money", his first single since the release of his debut album, April & # 39; s Violation of privacy.

"Money" puts his subject front and center. Cardi holds the almighty dollar higher than all other life activities for her and her baby, Kulture, whom she welcomed with her husband and rapper companion, Offset, last summer.

"Sweet as a honey bun, spit like a submachine gun / Rollie one of her, come get your mum a little," she spits in the second verse. "Cardi at the top, b **** / Kiss the ring and hit rocks, sis."

It's fair to say that Cardi B returns to the money, but in reality, she never left. After welcoming his firstborn in July, the name Cardi appeared at the top of Display panel Hot 100 twice this summer, and she remained in the public eye. The song "I Like It" by Cardi, starring J Balvin and Bad Bunny, was ranked # 1 on the Hot 100 on July 7, and "Girls Like You" from Maroon 5 (featuring Cardi) became No. 1 on September 24.

Cardi's impeccably orchestrated ascension, which first attracted the public's attention in 2017 with the single "Bodak Yellow" – and which was launched in April with his first album – remained a a topic of discussion in hip-hop circles in 2018. And as long as "Bodak Yellow" earned the performer two Grammy nominations in 2018, according to the Recording Academy's rule, which earned him 39, be excluded from the competition in the category "Best New Artist at the 2019 Awards". Even if "Money" does not appear in the charts like its previous singles, it reminds listeners that Cardi remains coherent enough to deserve praise in other Grammy categories.