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Speaker 1: Disgraceland as a production of Double Elvis.

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Speaker 2: The stories about hood hip hop queen Cardi B are

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Speaker 2: in singe, she admitted to drugging and robbing men to

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Speaker 2: bankroll her rise from the streets. She allegedly ordered the

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Speaker 2: beatdown of a strip club bartender to scare off her man.

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Speaker 2: She definitely brawled with Nicki Minaj at a prestigious gala

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Speaker 2: event named after the liquor she loved, and proudly sporting

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Speaker 2: the signature red of the blood Streak. Gang Carti short

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Speaker 2: for Bacardi became America's biggest celebrity stripper in hip hop sensation.

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Speaker 2: Through the sheer force of personality, she took over reality

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Speaker 2: TV became one of the most successful female rappers of

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Speaker 2: all time, all on the back of her no fucks given,

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Speaker 2: in your face authenticity and armed with this diamond sharp

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Speaker 2: sense of self. Cardi B made great music. That music

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Speaker 2: you heard at the top of the show that wasn't

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Speaker 2: great music. That was a preset loop for my melotron

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Speaker 2: called all the Angels Sing MK three. I played you

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Speaker 2: that loop because I can't afford the rights to Girls

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Speaker 2: Like You by Maroon five with a featured verse by

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Speaker 2: No joke, Cardi B herself and why would I play

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Speaker 2: you that specific slice of red pilled cheese? Could I

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Speaker 2: afford it? Because that was the number one song in

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Speaker 2: America on September twenty nine, twenty eighteen, And that was

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Speaker 2: the night Cardi B found herself in the middle of

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Speaker 2: a violent melee and a queen strip club that led

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Speaker 2: to charges that still stand today, a potential prison sentence

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Speaker 2: in courtroom drama that has yet to play itself out.

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Speaker 2: On this episode, insta celebrity strip club beat downs, red

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Speaker 2: pill Cheese and the inimitable Cardi B. I'm Jake Brennan

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Speaker 2: and this is Disgraceland. Cardi B. Kept her right leg

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Speaker 2: aligned vertically with the pole and stood parallel to the

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Speaker 2: cold titanium rod that stretched from the floor to the ceiling.

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Speaker 2: She extended her left leg, pointed her toes and lifted

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Speaker 2: them about six inches from the ground, and then began

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Speaker 2: to twirl as she swung her voluptuous body with grace

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Speaker 2: around and around. She ended her motion by hooking the

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Speaker 2: pole with her extended left leg, gripping it with her

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Speaker 2: inner thigh. She clutched the top of the pole with

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Speaker 2: her right hand and squatted down and back, slowly, arching

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Speaker 2: her back slightly, popping her ass out just a touch

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Speaker 2: to accent her natural curves. It was a small but

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Speaker 2: attentive audience who she held and raptured the late shift.

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Speaker 2: Two old timers, one dude clearly a perb from central casting,

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Speaker 2: of the summer, hands nowhere to be seen, disheveled and

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Speaker 2: unable to make eye contact with anyone since the nineteen eighties.

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Speaker 2: The other a total herb. White dude, thin hair that

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Speaker 2: too gray to properly color. He looked tired, beat down

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Speaker 2: by work, by his wife, by his life. He was

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Speaker 2: a familiar sight to Carnie. He and the countless other

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Speaker 2: middle aged working stiffs who looked just like him and

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Speaker 2: took this ride with her every night. She didn't mind.

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Speaker 2: She needed them as much as they needed her. She

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Speaker 2: threw trench coat pur of a look. His eyes started away,

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Speaker 2: and then she clutched the top of the pole with

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Speaker 2: her left hand just above her right and pulled her

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Speaker 2: body in slowly to the pole so that it was

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Speaker 2: positioned dead center against her. She pressed her forehead against

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Speaker 2: it first, and then threw her head, allowing her hair

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Speaker 2: to cascade down to her ass. She pulled herself toward

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Speaker 2: the pole again and slid it between her breasts, then

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Speaker 2: threw her head backward again while slowly grinding her crotch

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Speaker 2: against the pole. Thinning Hair Dude sat expressionless, just stared

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Speaker 2: at her dispassionately but focused. Trench Coatpurve looked like he

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Speaker 2: was going to burst his face flushed sweat dripping down

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Speaker 2: the sides of his head from his greasy hair, and

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Speaker 2: Cartie knew she had them, both of them. She writhed

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Speaker 2: up on the pole some more. As she swore, she

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Speaker 2: saw Thinning Hair Dude's lips start to form a smile,

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Speaker 2: and then, in one quick motion, she lifted her lower

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Speaker 2: body up, clutched the pole with her knees, slid herself

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Speaker 2: down the pole toward the floor, locking eyes with trench

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Speaker 2: Coat purb the entire way. Upon landing as her assim

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Speaker 2: at the floor, she extended both legs out like scissors,

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Speaker 2: completely straddling the pole. From a seated position. She continued

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Speaker 2: take over to ham it up for the audience. Sitting

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Speaker 2: both hands, she leaned backward and began twirling her long

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Speaker 2: brown hair while pantomiming a mild orgasm. She then began

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Speaker 2: pulling herself back up the pole, and as she did,

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Speaker 2: she stared straight at thinning hair Dude. He stared straight back.

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Speaker 2: He was transported away from a shitty job, away from

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Speaker 2: knew it. It was working. She had him, him and

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Speaker 2: everyone else. But more importantly, she found something she was

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Speaker 2: as Cardi b rode the pole back down and then

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Speaker 2: Cardi b let go of the subway pole, grabbed her

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Speaker 2: backpack on the seat behind her, and bounced out of

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Speaker 2: the a train car for her apartment in Washington Heights.

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Speaker 2: Stripping was a skill like anything else, and if she

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Speaker 2: was going to go get that money, she needed practice.

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Speaker 2: Her poll work in New York City subway cars in

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Speaker 2: the middle of the night were a hell of a

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Speaker 2: lot cheaper than renting a dance studio. Cardi had been

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Speaker 2: fired from the Amish market she was working at, and

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Speaker 2: the one good thing that came from the minimum wage

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Speaker 2: gig was the idea her boss had when he fired her.

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Speaker 2: You should dance. You get the body for it. Go

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Speaker 2: across the street, they'll probably hire you. Across the street

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Speaker 2: was the strip club New York Dolls, and although young

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Speaker 2: seventies downtown proto punk band of the same name, the

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Speaker 2: group's trashy glam in New York City street style is

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Speaker 2: a foundational part of Cardi B's makeup. Her DNA is

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Speaker 2: as New York as David Johansson's menacing androgyny, in her

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Speaker 2: personality like Johansson's, as big and bombastic as anything to

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Speaker 2: York Dolls was quick to recognize this. They knew the

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Speaker 2: little girl from the market across the street was on brand,

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Speaker 2: that all she had to do was act naturally, and

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Speaker 2: the bridge and Tunnel herbs would unload their walls onto

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Speaker 2: the glass stage and she was hired. But once hired,

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Speaker 2: on as a dancer, it was survival of the fittest.

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Speaker 2: Dancing was a hustle. You not only needed to be

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Speaker 2: good at dancing, at pollwork, at working the customers, but

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Speaker 2: you needed to invest in yourself. The girls who brought

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Speaker 2: home the most bread two three grand a night looked

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Speaker 2: more like Jessica Rabbit curved hip hop superheroes than they

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Speaker 2: did Cardi B, who at the time was going by

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Speaker 2: her birth name bel Callous Almanzar, and the competition in

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Speaker 2: the clubs had curves for days, humongous asses and big

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Speaker 2: Instagram that brought her real fame. Her videos with observations

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Speaker 2: on life, love stripping, even advice from the dudes and

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Speaker 2: the haters. Her follower count grew right alongside her growing curves,

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Speaker 2: and she made no apologies for her chosen profession or

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Speaker 2: her implants. But it wasn't because of her looks or

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Speaker 2: her dancing that her social profile blew up. It was

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Speaker 2: because she was funny as fuck. She was unique with

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Speaker 2: that big Bronx accent and quipped totally raw and totally

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Speaker 2: authentic musings on most everything, and there was no faking

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Speaker 2: it to make it. There was just this is who

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Speaker 2: I am later for you. If you can't get with me,

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Speaker 2: I'm gonna make you laugh, even if you hate on

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Speaker 2: me vibe and it was infectious on Instagram, Cardi B

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Speaker 2: turned herself into a meme machine, spitting out constant, quotable

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Speaker 2: one liners that spoke to her specific sense of self

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Speaker 2: and unique brand of feminism. I think as bad bitches

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Speaker 2: as a gift from God. It doesn't matter where life

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Speaker 2: takes me or what life gives me. I'm gonna be

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Speaker 2: the way I am to the day I die, And

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Speaker 2: if you don't like it, go die first, bitch. I

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Speaker 2: don't care about anyone not liking me. You bitch is

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Speaker 2: barely like yourselves. And then my personal favorite, yo, I

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Speaker 2: want to eat my own pussy. She created her own language,

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Speaker 2: popularizing words like ohkur meaning okay, regular, regular, schmegular meaning

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Speaker 2: girl store, or you know your basic bitch yeao meaning yeah,

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Speaker 2: that's cool, but whatever, and schmuney, as in that's what

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Speaker 2: I want, that m ony what it can't buy, I

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Speaker 2: can't use give me that shmuney. But once she popped

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Speaker 2: on Instagram, the VH one reality television show Love and

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Speaker 2: Hip Hop came calling, and with her platform on swollen,

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Speaker 2: her new manager suggested she rap on those videos she

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Speaker 2: set to rhymes, a megastar was born. After guesting on

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Speaker 2: various singles with bigger artists, releasing her own mixtape, Gangs

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Speaker 2: the Bitch Music Volume one, Cardi B signed with Atlantic

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Speaker 2: Records and in twenty seventeen released her for a single,

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Speaker 2: Bodak Yellow, and her debut went to number one on

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Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred chart, making Cardi B the

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Speaker 2: back in nineteen ninety eight. But another female rapper almost

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Speaker 2: prevented it from happening. Nikki the Boss aka Nikki the

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Speaker 2: Ninja aka the Female Wheezy aka Nicki Minaj. Nicki Minaj

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Speaker 2: wasn't a square engi of wall visible beneath the cutout

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Speaker 2: magazine images and posters of Taylor Swift blanketing seventeen year

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Speaker 2: old Jessica's bedroom in a diy T swizz collage of blonde,

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Speaker 2: pink and bedazzled pop style. Jessica was a Swiftie, a

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Speaker 2: Taylor Swift superfan, and she had work to do. An

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Speaker 2: hour earlier, a series of dms set off her Instagram

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Speaker 2: notifications from Vic the Trick, who was part of the Barbs.

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Speaker 2: The Barbs were Nicki Minaj's answer to the Swifties. But

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Speaker 2: where the Swifties were friendly, inclusive, wholesome digital BFFs to

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Speaker 2: their idle Tata, the Barbs were hard, dead serious defenders

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Speaker 2: of their idol, Nicki the Boss. They were known for

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Speaker 2: stomping down Nicki Minaj haters online with the ferociousness of

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Speaker 2: a pride of lions protecting their cup. Vic the Trick's

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Speaker 2: first message was direct, Yo, you was swifty. Your girl

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Speaker 2: single is about to be bounced from the number one

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Speaker 2: slot by that hole Cardi and we need to stop

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Speaker 2: that from happening. The Barbs, like their idle Nicki Minaj,

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Speaker 2: had a thing for Cardi B. It was competitive, territorial,

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Speaker 2: zero sum. Cardi B's win was their loss, so fuck

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Speaker 2: that bitch. Let's keep her out of the number one

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Speaker 2: slot and send her back up on that pole. But

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Speaker 2: all Jessica Wanda was Taylor Swift's song to remain at

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Speaker 2: number one, because Taylor was everything. Taylor was the reason

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Speaker 2: there was swiftness. Taylor was the reason she had a kimono.

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Speaker 2: So Cardi B would have to find another way on

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Speaker 2: to the top of the charts. Jessica wasted no time

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Speaker 2: and headed online, posting your mission today, fellow Swifties, is

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Speaker 2: this stream Look what you made me do non stop

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Speaker 2: on all platforms. We can push Cardi B out of

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Speaker 2: the way and keep Queen Tete at number one where

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Speaker 2: she belongs. Do it, Swifties. The Barbs got behind the

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Speaker 2: action too, and soon both fan armies were streaming Taylor

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Speaker 2: Swift's single repeatedly on as many platforms as they could,

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Speaker 2: trying to keep it at number one, streaming for vengeance

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Speaker 2: in an effort to hold Cardi B down, But it

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Speaker 2: was no use. Carti's track Bodak Yellow was too good,

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Speaker 2: Carti's personality too big, Carti's own fans, the Barti Gang

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Speaker 2: too inspired. Her song popped out of speakers and headphones,

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Speaker 2: Then Cardi bent over and took off her shoe, the

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Speaker 2: Hotel or not harveer'st bizarre Gala Fashion Week, Whatever the

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Speaker 2: and fuck Nicki Minaj. Bitch had it coming. We'll be

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Speaker 2: right back after this word word word, Cardi B, quote

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Speaker 2: unquote emotional gangsta offered up regular relationship advice on record

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Speaker 2: Though she married in secret to Offset, Carti made no

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Speaker 2: Offset's iCloud account was hacked, revealing not only explicit videos

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Speaker 2: Carti's stare. She tried avoiding it. Couldn't Cardi B AKA

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Speaker 2: it crash right across her pretty face. Glass ice smear

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Speaker 2: it off. Then the swarm of thugs at the bar,

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Speaker 2: someone grabbed her hair, pulled her down. All she could

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Speaker 2: do was hear that voice, that familiar, thick bronx accent.

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Speaker 2: You fuck my husband? What Jade thought? You fuck my husband? Jay,

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Speaker 2: amidst the melee thought to herself, how could she asked

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Speaker 2: I'm a sister, you asked me that. What do you

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Speaker 2: that bronx accented voice, but now closer to her, above

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Speaker 2: not answering you. I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid. Again,

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Speaker 2: the voice over the subs You're very smart, JD. You

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Speaker 2: the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again, did you

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Speaker 2: and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it.

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Speaker 2: I'm not telling you anything. You're a sick bastard. I

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Speaker 2: feel sorry for you. I really do you fuck my husband?

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Speaker 2: You fuck my husband. Then someone grabbed Jade by her hair,

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Speaker 2: long piercing nails like daggers dragged across your scalp. Jade

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Speaker 2: felt herself being pulled up over the bar, then a

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Speaker 2: hard thump to her skull. Jade could smell cigarette ashes,

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Speaker 2: could taste the grimy tobacco on her glossed lips. Then

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Speaker 2: smacks to the skull and a giant crash in the

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Speaker 2: back bar, broken glass, spilled water, all the result of

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Speaker 2: a giant hooka pipe that had been launched shatter. Finally

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Speaker 2: she was let go. She slid down behind the bar

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Speaker 2: to the sounds of the melee entering its second phase.

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Speaker 2: It's all over but the shrieking phase. Security hustling out

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Speaker 2: her attackers, her attackers busting out a final round of

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Speaker 2: shit talk, and then that big bronx accent again. Fuck

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Speaker 2: with my man, fuck with my money, fuck with my man,

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Speaker 2: my man, I'm blood. I'll fuck you bitches up. What

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Speaker 2: might have sounded intimidating, harsh, violent, aggressive, it was just

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Speaker 2: Cardi B being herself whatever and wherever the hell she

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Speaker 2: happened to be the club Instagram, same thing, Cardi B

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Speaker 2: being Cardi B, shouting down haters, and then it was over.

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Speaker 2: Authenticity is why Cardi B was at the top of

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Speaker 2: the game, number one hits, massive royalty checks, sold out shows, diamonds,

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Speaker 2: luxury automobiles, a new house for a mama, a book deal,

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Speaker 2: a movie deal, and a massive rabbit following. As Cardi

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Speaker 2: B says, I'm rich, bitch, and I smell like it.

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Speaker 2: The charges the sisters are throwing at her for the

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Speaker 2: incident of angels weren't anything to worry about. Cardi B

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Speaker 2: showed up in court looking like a corporate hood goddess

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Speaker 2: and rejected the plea deal. She'd beat the rout. It

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Speaker 2: was kids stuck the misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment and assault,

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Speaker 2: and it only carried a short prison sentence, probably a year,

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Speaker 2: maybe five. Whatever, she knew she'd beat him. After all,

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Speaker 2: she'd done worse and got away with it. Trench coat

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Speaker 2: Purv sat on the edge of the bed, nervous and

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Speaker 2: the hotel room is too expensive, but still the ac

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Speaker 2: was busted, and the room was too hot, and he

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Speaker 2: was too shy to take off his coat, and so

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Speaker 2: he just sat there, afraid to make eye contact with

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Speaker 2: the dancer whose offer he'd taken up. It was just

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Speaker 2: too good to refuse, and she was too sexy, and

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Speaker 2: he was too obsessed. He'd been falling allong around the

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Speaker 2: city since she got her start, at first on the subways,

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Speaker 2: then at various clubs where she danced, and finally to

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Speaker 2: disappearance on stage in Toronto. He nearly came in his

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Speaker 2: pants when she leaned over and sing song into his ear.

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Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you want to fuck me? Yeah yeah, Let's

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Speaker 2: go back to my hotel and you can fuck me

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Speaker 2: all night. It was too much, he said nothing, just

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Speaker 2: stood up, pulled his wallet out of his pocket, opened

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Speaker 2: it to check its contents, flashed his water cash, gave

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Speaker 2: her a look and a nod toward the door. Within

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Speaker 2: seconds that were bouncing down the street toward the hotel

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Speaker 2: she'd mentioned. Once in the room, his mood changed, his

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Speaker 2: shyness had taken over, and she wanted to party. She

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Speaker 2: cracked the mini bar open and grabbed two nips near

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Speaker 2: knock for him, the cardi for her. She told him

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Speaker 2: to close his eyes while she got undressed. It was

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Speaker 2: part of the tea, she said, And when she did,

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Speaker 2: she slipped the powder into the smeir knof bottle, pulled

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Speaker 2: off her faux fur coat, grabbed him by the back

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Speaker 2: of the head with both hands, and buried his face

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Speaker 2: into her naked ample bosom, letting out that big bronx

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Speaker 2: laugh in the process. She shook his head free of

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Speaker 2: her chest, turned to the desk to grab the nips,

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Speaker 2: gave him his smirnov already uncapped, and proposed a toast

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Speaker 2: to get in that shmuney. He laughed, raised his bottle

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Speaker 2: to hers, shot it down and fell back onto the bed.

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Speaker 2: He felt instantly relaxed, and then when he awoke he

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Speaker 2: was tied up to the bed, his wrists bound by

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Speaker 2: his socks, hit his naked and absent his trench coat

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Speaker 2: with his limp little ticket taker exposed. He felt a

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Speaker 2: sharp shriek of embarrassment, But when he saw his wallet

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Speaker 2: lying on the bed below him and all of its

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Speaker 2: contents totally gone in the wind, just like her, he

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Speaker 2: felt humiliated. The robbery was straight hood, just like Cardi B.

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Speaker 2: That Cardi B didn't care. She let the world know

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Speaker 2: in an Instagram story, boasting about drugging and robbing men

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Speaker 2: from her stripping days as a means of survival. It

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Speaker 2: was a different reality for her then, but that reality

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Speaker 2: informed her and she never ran from it. Nothing was

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Speaker 2: handed to her. She had to go out and get it,

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Speaker 2: and that didn't change with success. There was no more

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Speaker 2: stripping or robbing, but there was still Cardi B. Who

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Speaker 2: She was, her authentic self, hustling, hard working, shit talking

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Speaker 2: big and proud, defending herself against their haters, against women

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Speaker 2: out to take her man, against divas out to keep

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Speaker 2: her down. And there was no faking need to make

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Speaker 2: it because she'd made it by being her own damn

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Speaker 2: self every step of the way, without compromise. Once more

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Speaker 2: rock and roll or punk, good gangster about that nothing

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Speaker 2: haters gonna hate. I'm Jake Brennan in this this disgraceland.

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