She goes on to brag that she “makes money moves” and later gloats, “I just checked my accounts, turns out, I’m rich, I’m rich, I’m rich!” Musically, the song comes off like a drugged-up nursery rhyme, but then no great work of art could ever come from the expression of such sentiments.Ĭardi begins by bragging about her shoes: “These expensive, these is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes.” This is a reference both to the expensive designer shoes of Christian Louboutin, more than $1,000 a pair in some cases, and to Cardi’s membership in the Bloods. What is the content of her hit single, now celebrated as a feminist anthem? Gangsterism, an obsession with making money, and pornographic boasts about her own sexual prowess. Now, at the age of 24, she is a chart-topping rapper. In 2015, she joined the cast of the grotesque VH1 reality show Love and Hip Hop. While working as an exotic dancer, she achieved a certain kind of fame through her “unfiltered” social media posts. She did, becoming “a famously known stripper in New York City,” in the words of Billboard columnist Carl Lamarre. At 19 she was fired from a job as a grocery clerk, but one of the store’s managers recommended she look for a job at the strip club across the street. Around the age of 16, she joined the Bloods street gang and has remained a proud member ever since.
She was raised in poverty and has been the victim of domestic violence. In truth, “Bodak Yellow” is a vulgar work that glorifies backward and genuinely anti-social impulses.Ĭardi B (Belcalis Almanzar) was born in the Bronx, New York to Trinidadian and Dominican immigrant parents. Because she is the first female rapper to reach the top of the Billboard Hot 100 since Lauryn Hill in 1998, several commentators have praised her achievement in the service of promoting identity politics. The chart ranks songs according to their popularity in sales, radio airplay and across streaming services. For two weeks now, the number one spot on the Billboard Hot 100 charts has been occupied by rapper Cardi B and her song “Bodak Yellow.”
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