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Speaker 1: Let's start by saying that most of the icons featured

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Speaker 1: on our podcast have multi decade careers, but this icon's

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Speaker 1: recent run and simple name recognition got our attention. Ultimately,

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Speaker 1: a few short years, this woman has rewritten the music

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Speaker 1: industry's rule book by breaking rap records left and right

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Speaker 1: and paving a career unlike anyone else's. Today we're talking

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Speaker 1: all things Belgalis Marlenis al Mansar.

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Speaker 2: Cardi, b in a Half.

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Speaker 1: He has another talent from the Bronx who played a

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Speaker 1: part in Bad Bunny's success, So it only seems fair

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Speaker 1: that we give her the flowers she also deserves.

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Speaker 3: Who, like Jlo, also paved her own way.

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Speaker 2: The self made performer went from stripping in the club

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Speaker 2: to then becoming a full blown superstar better like how.

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Speaker 3: Well, Joseph.

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Speaker 1: That's why we're here to help break it all down

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Speaker 1: from the poll to a global stage. This is a

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Speaker 2: Uh oh, don't forget how about our feud with one

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Speaker 2: of rap's biggest names.

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Speaker 3: Oh trust me, we won't.

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Speaker 1: This is Becoming an Icon a look at Cardi B's

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Speaker 1: rise to a global stage.

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Speaker 3: I'm your host Lilianavosgaz.

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Speaker 2: And I'm Joseph Carrio and this is Becoming an Icon a.

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Speaker 1: Weekly podcast where we give you the rundown on how

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Speaker 1: today's most famous LATINX stars have shaped pop culture.

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Speaker 2: And given the world some extress.

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Speaker 2: Comfortable, because we are going in the only way we know.

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Speaker 1: How with when I'll be with usunesas, some esney and

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Speaker 1: a lot of opinions as we relive their greatest achievements

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Speaker 1: on our journey to find out what makes them so iconic.

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Speaker 3: Nineteen ninety two The Bronx.

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Speaker 2: Wait what month?

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Speaker 3: October?

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Speaker 2: The full date?

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Speaker 3: Ugh, October eleventh, nineteen ninety two.

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Speaker 2: Oh h let me peepeep beep btpepep. She is a

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Speaker 2: my god, this explains so much, Walter focus. Okay, right

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Speaker 2: right back to the Bronx.

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Speaker 1: She was raised in the Bronx. Her dad is Dominican

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Speaker 1: and her mother is Trinidadian. But before we get into

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Speaker 1: the episode, I want to know how much he knew

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Speaker 1: about Cardi B. Before we started researching her for this episode.

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Speaker 2: I knew a lot of her memes and her me music,

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Speaker 1: I didn't know her memes as much, and I knew

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Speaker 1: a lot of her one liners, but I was actually

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Speaker 1: confused that they were attributed all to one person. I was, Oh,

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Speaker 1: that's a bunch of different people on from love and

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Speaker 1: hip hop. I didn't realize it was one brilliant mind

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Speaker 1: I knew her music, just because how do you not

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Speaker 1: know her music? But I tell you this, I did

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Speaker 3: About Cardi b mixtape era. That was all new to me.

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Speaker 2: Agreed. I knew the memes, and all of a sudden

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Speaker 1: To be honest, for a long time, I didn't even

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Speaker 2: Wait, what's her real name?

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Speaker 3: Belle Galis Marlenis al Mansa. That's a mouthful.

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Speaker 2: That literally sounds like a spell from Harry Potter.

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Speaker 3: It does, but it can definitely be a lot to

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Speaker 1: Growing up, people gave her a nickname Macarty, like, you know,

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Speaker 1: that's what my friends call me when I was five

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Speaker 2: Lily, but Carti Cardi b Wow, her mind was the future.

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Speaker 1: I think it goes to prove that Carti has always

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Speaker 1: Growing up, she listened to artists like Missy Elliott, fifty

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Speaker 2: Cardi b the Little Monster Yo. I can totally see

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Speaker 2: The taste, the Taste Cardi, we.

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Speaker 3: All want to know, how did we get here?

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Speaker 2: Well, I'm recording at my place and I'm assuming you

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Speaker 1: I mean in Carti's journey, how did she get from

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Speaker 1: and Vanity Fair. You know, there's a lot of talent

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Speaker 2: It's just like you're saying her attitude.

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Speaker 1: She grew up with her sister shout out Hennessy Carlino

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Speaker 2: Heights growing up. She was close to her Abuela, whom

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Speaker 1: She says she wasn't the best student and was in

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Speaker 2: Oh, I don't know. The oppressed finding recompense from a

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Speaker 2: as products to be bid, bought, and sold, but most

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Speaker 2: importantly controlled. Well, that seems as traditional as apple pie. Sorry,

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Speaker 2: I went somewhere.

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Speaker 3: Back to Cardi, Okay, well, back to the podcast.

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Speaker 1: At only nineteen years old, she started her career as

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Speaker 2: Many of judges are for which, first of all, it's

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Speaker 1: Carti owned it. She saw a way to make a living,

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Speaker 2: She needed that money, honey.

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Speaker 1: She's gone on to call it a positive moment in

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Speaker 2: Don't be out here judging haters. You build the life

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Speaker 3: Phreach, and Carti did what she had to do.

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Speaker 1: She recalls, when I first entered the strip club, I

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Speaker 1: There were times when I was crying, like, oh my gosh,

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Speaker 3: But I needed the fucking money.

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Speaker 2: That attitude, you know, for her, that's where she harnessed it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she says, stripper's talk a certain way. The stripper

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Speaker 1: a lot of these bitches don't have shit. A lot

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Speaker 1: have no car, can't afford this, can't afford that. During

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Speaker 1: an interview with Cosmopolitan, she admitted that quote. She doubts

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Speaker 1: the me Too movement will change much in the hip

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Speaker 1: video vixens have spoke about this, and nobody gives a fuck.

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Speaker 1: When I was trying to be a vixen and people

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Speaker 1: this magazine, then they pull their dicks out. I bet

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Speaker 1: if one of these women stands up and talks about it,

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Speaker 3: So what, you're a hoe, It don't matter.

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Speaker 2: Wait, I'm a hoe. No no you co Cardi.

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Speaker 1: And just two years after she started stripping, she became

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, Vine, A wait, macop to dead Vine.

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Speaker 1: Yes, yes, Vine might have died, but it gave her

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Speaker 1: a spot on Love and Hip Hop New York. This

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Speaker 1: regular Degula Shmegula Go from the Bronx was making waves

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Speaker 1: on social media with her one million plus followers, so naturally,

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Speaker 1: the execs behind the VH one show thought, let's bring

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Speaker 1: This is what Cardi herself.

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Speaker 3: Had to say about the experience.

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Speaker 1: Yo, it's so crazy, Like the motherfuckers the producers really

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Speaker 1: I have seven hundred thousand, bajillion followers, she told The

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Speaker 1: I have a brand. I'm not even an artists and

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Speaker 3: I filled them shits out. But they didn't care about that.

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Speaker 1: They just wanted to make me look as a stripper,

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Speaker 2: I could totally hear Cardi in that.

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Speaker 1: I feel like I didn't do my best Cardi impression,

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Speaker 2: I could really hear her in that, though. I felt that.

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Speaker 1: I could see her doing the movements because so much,

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Speaker 2: So you watched the show, so I've watched Okay, wait

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Speaker 2: a minute, whoa.

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Speaker 3: Okay, hold on wait you are.

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Speaker 2: A Love and Hip Hop season one through six?

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Speaker 1: Or First of all, I will watch any reality TV.

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Speaker 1: People that know me know that there is nothing too

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Speaker 2: Wow.

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Speaker 3: I love television.

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Speaker 1: And this is obviously before I had a baby and

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Speaker 1: I had lots of hours in a day to spend

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Speaker 2: You were a Jerry Springer girl?

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Speaker 3: Yes, Oh my.

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Speaker 1: God, Yes, and I loved like Mari, like Who's the Daddy?

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Speaker 1: I love all that shit, The messier the better, and

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Speaker 1: so yes. Occasionally I would watch Love and Hip Hop

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Speaker 1: watching it, and then I actually got sent a link

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Speaker 1: who is this girl? And that's when I watched it

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Speaker 1: watching it and thinking, I just want a whole show

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Speaker 1: about her. If you watch housewives, you remember in real

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Speaker 1: Bethany would be in them, and you would leave that

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Speaker 3: Like, whoa, whoa, whoa.

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Speaker 3: But this was just Carti being Cardi, and the one

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Speaker 3: You remember Shaggy.

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Speaker 3: Right, listen, this song was fantastic.

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Speaker 1: It mixed up reggae with dancehall and Carti's trademark vocals.

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Speaker 1: A year later, she released her first official mixtape called

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Speaker 1: She was one hundred percent certain she wanted to stick

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Speaker 1: She was even getting noticed by more global mainstream brands

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Speaker 3: She was attending events at New York Fashion Week?

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Speaker 2: Wait wait, wait, wait wait? Are we going to talk

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Speaker 2: That one time that somebody I know leaked the footage?

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Speaker 3: Are you kidding?

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Speaker 1: That moment went a viral online and guess who captured

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Speaker 1: the whole fight on their iPhone? That's me, because you

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Speaker 2: That's one hundred my boo.

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Speaker 1: In late February of twenty seventeen, Cardi B signed with

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Speaker 2: Oo. Our girl is on her way to becoming a star.

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Speaker 1: Indeed, she was Joseph thanks in part to her love

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Speaker 2: Wait, like an energy vampire.

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Speaker 3: No, like a hype woman.

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Speaker 2: Oh well, that's why she's a team player. She's always

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Speaker 1: After signing her contract with Atlantic Records, Carti started collaborating

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Speaker 2: Let's get a boatac yella already, Okay.

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Speaker 3: I was just setting the scene.

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Speaker 3: Okay, okay, we're there, We're there.

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Speaker 1: On June sixteenth, twenty seventeen, Atlantic Records released Cardi B's

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Speaker 1: The Wendy Williams Show and Jimmy Kimmel Live. Oh God,

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Speaker 1: take me back to Bodak Yello. The first time I

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Speaker 2: Not Nicki whoa.

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Speaker 1: one hand right. So you've got Remy mag, Cardi B,

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Speaker 3: That, And I was like, this isn't Nikki. Who the

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Speaker 2: I knew it wasn't Nicki because it just seemed a

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Speaker 3: I think that's why people responded to it.

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Speaker 1: I think we had been served so much, for lack

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Speaker 3: And not that there's anything wrong with bubblegum rap.

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Speaker 1: I bopped that too, but I think for so long

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Speaker 1: Right right, I missed the days of Miss c Ellie.

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Speaker 1: I love that and I think to hear her, especially

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Speaker 1: with her signature Cardi sound, it made everyone stop and listen,

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Speaker 2: You stopped, listened and got lubitons.

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Speaker 3: Well, if you could afford them.

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Speaker 2: I know.

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Speaker 1: The song generated a two hundred and seventeen percent spike

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Speaker 1: Business of Fashion. So if people were questioning whether Carti

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Speaker 3: so with a single since nineteen ninety eight, when Lauren

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Speaker 2: Wait what happened to Lauren? That album was amazing.

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Speaker 1: The miseducation of Lauren Hill. That is my freshman year

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Speaker 1: can we?

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Speaker 2: But wait there's more. She also became the first person

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Speaker 1: Yeah, she was even tying with your miss Taytay the

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Speaker 2: Do you leave the Reputation Era out of this?

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Speaker 1: Okay, fine, I don't want to fight you or the Swifties,

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Speaker 1: well unless I have Cardi on my side. But back

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Speaker 1: to Carti. Soon enough, she was everywhere. I'm pretty sure

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Speaker 1: everyone and their mamas and baba's were listening to Bodak Yellow.

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Speaker 2: It was a rap anthem of the summer. Lubton should

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Speaker 1: Well, she can buy unlimited lubatons now, so it does

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Speaker 3: She doesn't even need them for free anymore.

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Speaker 1: That song went on to receive nominations for Best Rap

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Speaker 2: Vindication take that Chance the.

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Speaker 3: Rapper No, I love chance?

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Speaker 2: Okay, so do I, but just felt good.

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Speaker 1: Then she dropped Motorsport and No Limit, and soon she

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Speaker 1: She went on to headline and Power one oh five

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Speaker 1: point one's annual Powerhouse music celebration, where she met Mi

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Speaker 2: Mean her baby Daddy and future heavy Offset for those

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Speaker 1: But Carti has said they first met at an industry

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Speaker 2: Me and they're still together. My heart.

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Speaker 1: Did you know that Offset and Carti actually got secretly married?

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Speaker 2: Oh my god, like benefit.

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Speaker 1: Yup, right before they announced her first pregnancy. But we'll

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Speaker 2: Carti's for success was simple, keep up the collabs. Wait,

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Speaker 2: didn't you do a song with Osuna?

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Speaker 3: See she also collaborated with another Bodikua.

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Speaker 2: Well half Bodikua.

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Speaker 1: Okay, well my people claim him either way. I'm talking

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Speaker 1: about Bruno Mars.

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Speaker 2: Yes, sir, Cardi b was featured in the remix of Finesse,

446
00:23:21,560 --> 00:23:24,680
Speaker 2: appearing in the music video, but also went on to

447
00:23:24,760 --> 00:23:25,719
Speaker 2: release Please Meet.

448
00:23:25,800 --> 00:23:28,679
Speaker 1: Later on, they were charting like crazy all of it,

449
00:23:28,760 --> 00:23:31,960
Speaker 1: making Cardi B the first woman to have five top

450
00:23:32,000 --> 00:23:35,199
Speaker 1: ten singles simultaneously on the Billboard Hot R and B

451
00:23:35,440 --> 00:23:36,920
Speaker 1: Hip Hop Songs charts.

452
00:23:37,720 --> 00:23:41,520
Speaker 2: After all of these collabs, wasn't you ready to drop

453
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Speaker 2: her own album?

454
00:23:42,920 --> 00:23:47,280
Speaker 1: She was? Invasion of Privacy was released on April sixth,

455
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Speaker 1: twenty eighteen, to universal acclaim. Before we get into the album,

456
00:23:53,800 --> 00:23:56,880
Speaker 1: as promised, we got to talk about New York Fashion Week.

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00:23:57,280 --> 00:24:03,440
Speaker 1: Oh shit, Nicki versus Carti bing bing B.

458
00:24:13,440 --> 00:24:16,760
Speaker 3: Nicki versus Carti ing bing B.

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Speaker 2: For those of you guys who don't know, Lilliana is

460
00:24:22,920 --> 00:24:26,600
Speaker 2: fucking everywhere and she just so happened to be there

461
00:24:26,640 --> 00:24:28,520
Speaker 2: at the night of this fight.

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Speaker 1: Okay, So I was covering the red carpet at the

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Speaker 1: Harper's Bizarre Icons event, which.

464
00:24:35,080 --> 00:24:39,119
Speaker 2: Is no big deal, no big d eel.

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Speaker 1: It's one of the most well attended and well respected

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Speaker 1: events during New York Fashion Week.

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Speaker 3: It happens every year.

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Speaker 1: It features all of the icons from their Icons issue,

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Speaker 1: and let's just say it's a very classy affair. This year,

470
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Speaker 1: it happened to be at the Plaza Hotel, and somehow

471
00:24:57,680 --> 00:25:01,760
Speaker 1: both Carti and Nicki weren't just invited but were within

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Speaker 1: minutes of each other during arrivals. On the red carpet,

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Speaker 1: I interviewed both women. I can tell you this, They

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Speaker 1: were both in great spirits. Carti's interview with me was

475
00:25:13,359 --> 00:25:16,600
Speaker 1: so sweet. She was raving about being a new mom.

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00:25:17,080 --> 00:25:21,000
Speaker 1: She seemed really peaceful, honestly, And what was she wearing?

477
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Speaker 2: Like? What did she look like? Oh?

478
00:25:22,560 --> 00:25:23,760
Speaker 3: God, she looked gorgeous.

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Speaker 1: It was a big red carpet moment for her because

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00:25:26,200 --> 00:25:29,680
Speaker 1: she was in Dulchangabana cauture head to toe. She had

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Speaker 1: on all of these beautiful jewelry pieces, the gorgeous necklace,

482
00:25:32,920 --> 00:25:35,680
Speaker 1: had these big earrings, and then she had this beautiful

483
00:25:35,680 --> 00:25:38,440
Speaker 1: red dress. It was almost kind of very Flamento inspired,

484
00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:42,680
Speaker 1: lots of ruffles, and she looked very regal. She stepped

485
00:25:42,760 --> 00:25:46,840
Speaker 1: up her fashion game for this night by Iconic. Yeah,

486
00:25:46,880 --> 00:25:51,440
Speaker 1: well it's called Bizarre Icons and she was working with Dulceangabana.

487
00:25:51,560 --> 00:25:55,199
Speaker 1: And listen, whatever your opinion is of Dulchangabana, point is

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Speaker 1: they dressed Cardi beautifully that night. But more so than

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Speaker 1: how she looked, she gave me this feeling that was

490
00:26:01,320 --> 00:26:04,600
Speaker 1: just softer, And I asked her about that on the

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00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:07,159
Speaker 1: carpet I said, how has motherhood changed you?

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00:26:07,720 --> 00:26:10,040
Speaker 3: And she said so many ways.

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00:26:10,240 --> 00:26:12,399
Speaker 1: I'm just more at peace, I'm more relaxed, like I

494
00:26:12,480 --> 00:26:14,480
Speaker 1: just want to be with my baby. It was a

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00:26:14,560 --> 00:26:17,120
Speaker 1: very different version of Carti than I think the public

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Speaker 1: expected of her. Well fast forward minutes later, that's four

497
00:26:22,760 --> 00:26:28,000
Speaker 1: minutes later, and what happens the brawl to end all brawls.

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Speaker 3: Nicki and Carti had beef.

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Speaker 1: We all know this, right they did, and in the beginning,

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00:26:33,520 --> 00:26:37,400
Speaker 1: and then it escalated because Nicki was being a little

501
00:26:37,440 --> 00:26:41,040
Speaker 1: shady about Carti being a mom. She was liking tweets

502
00:26:41,320 --> 00:26:45,720
Speaker 1: on Twitter and on Instagram, liking posts that basically said

503
00:26:45,720 --> 00:26:48,160
Speaker 1: that Carti was a bad mom. And I can tell

504
00:26:48,200 --> 00:26:51,439
Speaker 1: you this as a mom. Don't come for me, and

505
00:26:51,520 --> 00:26:54,800
Speaker 1: don't talk shit about me as a mom, and worse,

506
00:26:55,200 --> 00:26:58,680
Speaker 1: don't talk shit about my kid. And Carti had had enough,

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00:26:58,760 --> 00:27:01,000
Speaker 1: and I think when she saw Nicki in a small

508
00:27:01,080 --> 00:27:03,679
Speaker 1: room close to her, she lost it.

509
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Speaker 2: It was like the stripper locker room all over again. Bitch.

510
00:27:07,240 --> 00:27:10,280
Speaker 1: All of a sudden, I think Carti was like, you've

511
00:27:10,320 --> 00:27:12,840
Speaker 1: been saying all this shit about me. Now you're in

512
00:27:12,880 --> 00:27:14,679
Speaker 1: a small room with me. I'm going to let you

513
00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:16,600
Speaker 1: know exactly how I feel. And I think we can

514
00:27:16,640 --> 00:27:19,560
Speaker 1: all agree that if there's one thing that Carti is

515
00:27:19,880 --> 00:27:22,280
Speaker 1: not going to do, it is mint or hide how

516
00:27:22,320 --> 00:27:22,800
Speaker 1: she feel.

517
00:27:23,000 --> 00:27:24,280
Speaker 3: She is out there.

518
00:27:24,800 --> 00:27:29,560
Speaker 1: So I happen to hear some commotion, so I ran

519
00:27:29,680 --> 00:27:31,520
Speaker 1: from the carpet to right.

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00:27:31,440 --> 00:27:33,080
Speaker 3: Below the second floor where you could see.

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00:27:32,880 --> 00:27:36,399
Speaker 1: He called your camera man right away. Okay, first of all,

522
00:27:37,000 --> 00:27:39,480
Speaker 1: held my hand. I was not wasting time with a

523
00:27:39,520 --> 00:27:41,720
Speaker 1: camera crew. I was like, oh, no, something is about

524
00:27:41,720 --> 00:27:44,320
Speaker 1: to go down. You just have this feeling, you have

525
00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,960
Speaker 1: intuition as a journalist, like something is about to happen.

526
00:27:47,200 --> 00:27:49,959
Speaker 1: So I whip out my iPhone, I aiming up, and

527
00:27:50,080 --> 00:27:53,439
Speaker 1: Carti's ass just happens to be right on top of me,

528
00:27:53,840 --> 00:27:57,960
Speaker 1: like you can exposed ass, like exposed ash.

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Speaker 2: The skirt of the dress tour right.

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00:28:00,080 --> 00:28:01,439
Speaker 1: Yeah, So she was in a little bit of like

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00:28:01,480 --> 00:28:04,919
Speaker 1: a scuffle the dress tour. So she was just in

532
00:28:05,000 --> 00:28:09,439
Speaker 1: her spanks underwear and Colin Carter, her stylist, is standing

533
00:28:09,520 --> 00:28:12,040
Speaker 1: right next to her, grabs the dress or try and

534
00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,320
Speaker 1: cover her back up, and then you see Cardi bend

535
00:28:14,320 --> 00:28:17,760
Speaker 1: down and you're like, what is she doing? Girl was

536
00:28:17,840 --> 00:28:21,720
Speaker 1: taking off her shoe to throw it at Nicky's face,

537
00:28:22,359 --> 00:28:25,120
Speaker 1: threw her shoe. In the video you see her throw

538
00:28:25,200 --> 00:28:28,800
Speaker 1: the shoe. And then that's not all. Cardi's no bitch.

539
00:28:29,040 --> 00:28:33,280
Speaker 1: She charges at Nicki and then never gets to Nicki

540
00:28:33,640 --> 00:28:37,399
Speaker 1: but runs into Nicki's security team, who bops her in

541
00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:40,960
Speaker 1: the head. And then you're like, wait what And all

542
00:28:40,960 --> 00:28:45,040
Speaker 1: of a sudden, people are screaming. You see Cardi's publicist screaming,

543
00:28:45,280 --> 00:28:47,080
Speaker 1: and I'm like, okay, I'm going to run to the

544
00:28:47,120 --> 00:28:51,200
Speaker 1: staircase because there's only one way in and one way out. Listen,

545
00:28:51,720 --> 00:28:53,800
Speaker 1: I know how to get a story, man. So I

546
00:28:53,880 --> 00:28:55,760
Speaker 1: run to the staircase because I'm like, there's only one

547
00:28:55,760 --> 00:28:57,800
Speaker 1: way for her to leave. There's literally one exit. So

548
00:28:57,840 --> 00:28:59,680
Speaker 1: I stand at the bottom of the exit, and within

549
00:29:00,280 --> 00:29:04,240
Speaker 1: thirty seconds I see two security guards coming down, and

550
00:29:04,280 --> 00:29:09,600
Speaker 1: then who appears but Cardi. B Right, she appears, huge

551
00:29:09,920 --> 00:29:14,520
Speaker 1: bump on her head, a big giant welt, no earrings,

552
00:29:14,960 --> 00:29:17,840
Speaker 1: and I say that for a reason, okay, And she's

553
00:29:17,840 --> 00:29:21,200
Speaker 1: got her head held up high. She gets escorted out,

554
00:29:21,280 --> 00:29:23,640
Speaker 1: and then all of the commotion, which is all about

555
00:29:23,880 --> 00:29:27,560
Speaker 1: stop filming cameras down, no cameras.

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00:29:28,160 --> 00:29:29,120
Speaker 3: Do you think I listened?

557
00:29:30,160 --> 00:29:34,440
Speaker 2: Obviously, not. That's how we got some major footagee.

558
00:29:33,640 --> 00:29:37,040
Speaker 1: Bad Zobe got the footage. So she gets escorted out,

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00:29:37,320 --> 00:29:39,920
Speaker 1: Nicky stays at the party. I don't see Nicki leave

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00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:42,960
Speaker 1: until maybe an hour later. But it was a scuffle.

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00:29:43,000 --> 00:29:43,560
Speaker 3: I am telling you.

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00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:46,240
Speaker 1: There has never been a fight or a brawl like

563
00:29:46,280 --> 00:29:48,960
Speaker 1: that at any Bizarre Icons event.

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00:29:49,080 --> 00:29:50,920
Speaker 3: It was insanity.

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00:29:51,520 --> 00:29:54,080
Speaker 2: That is amazing, and I'm just so glad that you

566
00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:57,320
Speaker 2: were there and got to see it. I feel it

567
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:00,560
Speaker 2: wasn't premeditated, only because she was dressed up with those

568
00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:01,880
Speaker 2: earrings and all of that.

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00:30:02,080 --> 00:30:05,320
Speaker 1: So I love that you think that some fancy ascatur

570
00:30:05,640 --> 00:30:08,960
Speaker 1: is gonna stop Carti from being Carti. You clearly don't

571
00:30:09,000 --> 00:30:22,160
Speaker 1: know our girl, Belle galis. If Carti had some scores

572
00:30:22,200 --> 00:30:24,960
Speaker 1: to settle, she was about to get them. On Invasion

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00:30:25,000 --> 00:30:30,280
Speaker 1: of Privacy, listen, Carti is sensitive. She may seemingly let

574
00:30:30,320 --> 00:30:33,480
Speaker 1: things slide, but she's admitted that a lot of what

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00:30:33,520 --> 00:30:36,840
Speaker 1: people and people online say does get to her.

576
00:30:37,240 --> 00:30:41,480
Speaker 2: So when she gets on that mic, girl addresses what

577
00:30:41,640 --> 00:30:45,720
Speaker 2: she's heard. You heard. This wasn't just collapse. This was

578
00:30:45,760 --> 00:30:49,520
Speaker 2: Cardi b telling the world that she wasn't going anywhere.

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00:30:49,960 --> 00:30:52,920
Speaker 1: Invasion of Privacy was a hip hop record, but it

580
00:30:53,000 --> 00:30:56,680
Speaker 1: also included trap, Latin drop, and R and B sounds.

581
00:30:58,600 --> 00:31:03,080
Speaker 2: It featured vocals from Me Goes Chance, the rapper Kalanie Sizza,

582
00:31:03,400 --> 00:31:08,880
Speaker 2: twenty one, Savage YG and J Belvin Gone Bad Bunny.

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00:31:08,920 --> 00:31:12,400
Speaker 1: It became the most on demand audio streaming week ever

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00:31:12,520 --> 00:31:15,720
Speaker 1: for an album by a female artists. It also opened

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00:31:15,760 --> 00:31:19,600
Speaker 1: the door for an unapologetic expression of culture. Carti an

586
00:31:19,640 --> 00:31:22,480
Speaker 1: artists who followed her wouldn't have to water themselves down

587
00:31:22,600 --> 00:31:24,080
Speaker 1: to appeal to the general market.

588
00:31:24,800 --> 00:31:27,520
Speaker 2: The title itself also sent.

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00:31:27,320 --> 00:31:31,080
Speaker 1: A message, Yes, Carti has a public persona, and yeah

590
00:31:31,240 --> 00:31:34,160
Speaker 1: she built her brand on social media, but it's still

591
00:31:34,200 --> 00:31:35,520
Speaker 1: got to be on her terms.

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00:31:35,840 --> 00:31:39,040
Speaker 3: She chooses what or what she doesn't want to share.

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00:31:39,240 --> 00:31:41,840
Speaker 2: Girls entitled to some privacy, so get up out of

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00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:42,440
Speaker 2: her business.

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00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,000
Speaker 1: If you're a hot item, the tabloids know no boundaries,

596
00:31:46,400 --> 00:31:49,600
Speaker 1: kind of like a Latino household d D. Let me

597
00:31:49,680 --> 00:31:55,000
Speaker 1: live my life and Carti is smart and strategic. She

598
00:31:55,200 --> 00:31:58,480
Speaker 1: knows how to always stay one step ahead of the press.

599
00:32:00,040 --> 00:32:02,800
Speaker 1: Rmor started swirling that she was expecting her first baby

600
00:32:02,800 --> 00:32:05,760
Speaker 1: with Offset. She went on SNL and put an end

601
00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:10,040
Speaker 1: to the rumors by showing off her beautiful bomb right

602
00:32:10,080 --> 00:32:12,400
Speaker 1: in the middle of her performance.

603
00:32:12,240 --> 00:32:16,080
Speaker 2: Looking fire and very innocent and maternal.

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00:32:16,160 --> 00:32:18,600
Speaker 1: I am, I add but if you thought a baby

605
00:32:18,640 --> 00:32:20,680
Speaker 1: in her belly was going to stop her conquest of

606
00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,360
Speaker 1: the biz, think again.

607
00:32:23,040 --> 00:32:25,360
Speaker 3: The fourth single off the album.

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00:32:25,200 --> 00:32:27,960
Speaker 2: I like dollars, I like diamonds, I like stunning, I

609
00:32:28,040 --> 00:32:28,640
Speaker 2: like shining.

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00:32:28,840 --> 00:32:33,320
Speaker 1: I like million dollar deals. Where's my bend, bitch? I'm signing? Wait,

611
00:32:33,640 --> 00:32:34,440
Speaker 1: can we sign a.

612
00:32:34,400 --> 00:32:36,640
Speaker 2: Million dollar please? I heart it.

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00:32:37,520 --> 00:32:41,880
Speaker 1: I like it was about to change everything we talked about.

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00:32:41,880 --> 00:32:44,280
Speaker 3: I like it back in the Bad Bunny episodes.

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00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,320
Speaker 2: Episode two for those of you taking notes, and if

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00:32:47,360 --> 00:32:49,160
Speaker 2: you missed it, make sure you go back and listen.

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00:32:50,120 --> 00:32:51,560
Speaker 3: This song was everywhere.

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00:32:51,800 --> 00:32:54,840
Speaker 1: It's a legacy defining hit, and you know it is

619
00:32:54,920 --> 00:32:57,719
Speaker 1: because you're probably singing it right now.

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00:32:58,880 --> 00:33:01,560
Speaker 2: I like those Balan the ones that looked like.

621
00:33:01,600 --> 00:33:04,200
Speaker 3: Sucks flexing on bitches as hard as I can eat.

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00:33:05,160 --> 00:33:08,040
Speaker 3: The lamb told that bitch. I'm sorry though, about my

623
00:33:08,120 --> 00:33:08,600
Speaker 3: coins like.

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00:33:08,600 --> 00:33:11,120
Speaker 1: Mario, Yeah, they call me Cardi b I run this

625
00:33:11,160 --> 00:33:12,040
Speaker 1: shit like Cardio.

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00:33:12,280 --> 00:33:14,840
Speaker 2: That song is just so good.

627
00:33:15,840 --> 00:33:19,160
Speaker 1: Are we gonna have to pay to use that? Because

628
00:33:19,200 --> 00:33:20,360
Speaker 1: I sounded so much late?

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00:33:20,880 --> 00:33:23,400
Speaker 2: Literally, I was like, dude, is Cardi on right now?

630
00:33:24,600 --> 00:33:27,200
Speaker 3: Wait, did we just invite Cardi into the studio?

631
00:33:27,360 --> 00:33:29,440
Speaker 2: She's going to be here. She totally is okay. So

632
00:33:29,520 --> 00:33:32,560
Speaker 2: did you like the album? Yes? Or no? God?

633
00:33:33,960 --> 00:33:37,320
Speaker 1: Is that even a question? It was so good and

634
00:33:37,720 --> 00:33:42,840
Speaker 1: just her lines in it. Who raps about eating fucking Hallal?

635
00:33:43,400 --> 00:33:46,520
Speaker 2: Someone who lived in the Bronx bitch there.

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00:33:46,960 --> 00:33:50,080
Speaker 1: I always wondered with that line, like, did my friends

637
00:33:50,160 --> 00:33:53,120
Speaker 1: in Texas listening to that go eating Hallal?

638
00:33:54,000 --> 00:33:59,880
Speaker 2: Hey? Google, what's Hallal eating Halal? Driving the lamb a lamb?

639
00:34:00,080 --> 00:34:02,760
Speaker 1: Because here's and you know what I love about that line.

640
00:34:02,920 --> 00:34:05,320
Speaker 1: It's first of all, just poetic. But I love the

641
00:34:05,440 --> 00:34:10,560
Speaker 1: mix of highbrow and lowbrow. And that is why Cardi

642
00:34:10,800 --> 00:34:13,880
Speaker 1: is so authentic in everything that she does. Because she

643
00:34:14,120 --> 00:34:16,440
Speaker 1: is going to roll up to the Halal guys on

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00:34:16,960 --> 00:34:18,960
Speaker 1: fifty first and sixth.

645
00:34:18,600 --> 00:34:21,839
Speaker 2: Avenue in her Fendy Firs Verstachi.

646
00:34:21,360 --> 00:34:26,480
Speaker 1: In her in her Versachi furs, dripping in Jacob the Jeweler,

647
00:34:27,040 --> 00:34:29,200
Speaker 1: and she's going to step out and buy Halal and

648
00:34:29,200 --> 00:34:32,040
Speaker 1: then eat the Halal in the neon green Lamborghini.

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00:34:33,080 --> 00:34:36,160
Speaker 3: I love her, Am I wrong? No, No, Everything about

650
00:34:36,160 --> 00:34:38,520
Speaker 3: that album was just born to be.

651
00:34:39,040 --> 00:34:41,200
Speaker 2: Everything every touches turns to gold.

652
00:34:41,640 --> 00:34:45,040
Speaker 1: Yeah, Carti had a Midas touch, so much so that

653
00:34:45,160 --> 00:34:46,920
Speaker 1: even Maroon five wanted in.

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00:34:47,120 --> 00:34:49,719
Speaker 2: Oh, I have a quote from them, Adam Levine said,

655
00:34:49,760 --> 00:34:54,040
Speaker 2: and I quote, it is truly unreal how fucking hot

656
00:34:54,080 --> 00:34:56,279
Speaker 2: you are. It truly blows my mind.

657
00:34:56,600 --> 00:34:59,359
Speaker 3: Wait, Joseph, I don't think that was about the song

658
00:34:59,400 --> 00:34:59,839
Speaker 3: they did with.

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00:34:59,840 --> 00:35:02,760
Speaker 2: Car Oh, I didn't say it.

660
00:35:02,680 --> 00:35:07,440
Speaker 1: Was girls like you made it onto the Hot one

661
00:35:07,520 --> 00:35:11,200
Speaker 1: hundred and the music video received more than three billion views.

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00:35:11,920 --> 00:35:15,200
Speaker 1: Then she received the most nominations at the twenty eighteen

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Speaker 1: MTV Video Music Awards twelve to be exact, including Video

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Speaker 1: few years earlier, Carti was just a woman from the

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Speaker 1: And now here she is dominating the VMAs.

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Speaker 2: And opening doors for other badass low mama fitas out there.

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Speaker 1: Cardi b has paved the way for so many of

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Speaker 1: Speaking of Yes, Yes, we are going to be discussing

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Speaker 1: the song that cemented Cardi as a musical sensation.

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