Cardi B stopped by to cut it up with Andy Cohen on Watch What Occurs Reside on Monday night time (Sept. 11), and, as all the time, the “Bongos” rapper didn’t maintain again when it got here to every part from her disappointment within the work ethic of as we speak’s strippers as to whether she’d say sure if tapped to carry out on the SuperBowl and which well-known individual has slid into her DMs.
First issues first, although, throughout the call-in section, a fan requested if Cardi will lastly collab together with her hero Lil Kim on her upcoming, as-yet-untitled sophomore album. “I really do want one. I’m going through my songs right now,” Cardi mentioned of the long-teased follow-up to smash 2018 debut studio album Invasion of Privateness.
“My thing is, like, everybody be like, ‘If you guys love each other so much why you guys still don’t have a collab?’,” she mentioned in a mocking voice. The reality, Cardi revealed, is that she desires a possible team-up to be so nice and plain that no person can decide it and be harsh on them. “I want to make sure that it’s like, the greatest song. But I would love, love, love to do a song with Lil Kim.”
For the report, Cardi mentioned her subsequent album will probably be completed this 12 months, launched subsequent 12 months and would possibly function some male rapper collabs and will probably be adopted by a tour.
Requested to dream up what her tagline could be if she joined Cohen’s Actual Housewives universe, Cardi wasted no time arising with the right, ripped-from-the-headlines quip: “The only thing I throw harder than mics is shade,” she mentioned in reference to the microphone she hurled at a fan who’d tossed a drink on her in Las Vegas earlier this summer season.
After turning down an opportunity to carry out on the 2019 Tremendous Bowl with Maroon 5 due to her need to “stand behind” ex-NFL participant Colin Kaepernick, a fan requested if Cardi would rethink if requested once more. “Now I would say yes,” Cardi mentioned. “Things change.”
Cardi — who did time as an unique dancer earlier than pivoting to rap — additionally weighed in on what she sees as a scarcity of labor ethic amongst strippers nowadays. “What I don’t like is, I feel like back then strippers, like, used to dance a little harder,” she mentioned. “Like now, the girls won’t even climb the pole.” When Cohen puzzled if strippers as we speak are phoning it in, Cardi mentioned, “They’re lazy. They’re lazy and I be spending like racks.”
The host and visitor then bonded over their mutual love of Madonna, with Cardi explaining that her devotion was born out of her mother’s love for the pop legend. “Growing up I always listened to Madonna, Madonna, Madonna,” she mentioned. “In fact, I asked Megan [Thee Stallion] what is her favorite to-do love song… well, she said she likes to hear yer own ass clappin’… but mine, when I’m a little bit drunk and I’m in there, in there, I like to listen to ‘Erotica,’” she mentioned.
Cardi additionally shared what her go-to karaoke music is: Whitney Houston’s “I Will Always Love You,” whereas busting out just a few whispery bars of the long-lasting ballad and confessing that essentially the most well-known identify to slip into her DMs was tennis champ Serena Williams.
Another tidbits we realized:
— Cardi’s first live performance, and the one one she attended earlier than getting well-known, was by Bronx-bred bachata group Aventura, which she went to when she as eight-years-old as a result of her dad knew somebody who labored on the venue.
— Whereas enjoying “Plead the Fifth,” Cardi mentioned out of her 9 Grammy nominations, the one she feels most robbed about shedding was for finest rap music and finest rap efficiency for her breakthrough hit “Bodak Yellow” on the sixtieth annual ceremony in 2018.
— Since she bought her begin on Love & Hip-Hop, a fan requested if Cardi would ever do a actuality present with husband Offset. “Yeah I wouldn’t mind, but I kind of mind,” Cardi mentioned. “I feel like I would get cancelled every day.”
Cardi additionally performed a spherical of “Fashion, or Trash, Hun,” operating down a few of her finest and worst pink carpet seems, whereas howling at just a few of her weirdest, wildest and most on-point outfits.
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