Earlier this week, Cardi B’s Bodak Yellow hits number one on the Billboard Top 100. She is the first female solo rap artist to do so since Lauryn Hill, with Doo Wop (That Thing), 19 YEARS AGO.
A number of artists and fans are celebrating Cardi’s success, but as we all know with great success comes a big deal of haters.
Ever since the news of ‘Bodak Yellow’ making it to the top of the charts was released, Twitter has been booming with a variation of opinions. Barging in with her two cents Azealia Banks, a female rapper from Harlem, New York known for her uncensored social media arguments, voices her opinion on Cardi’s accomplishment.
Banks’ Twitter rant is as follows:
The idea of colorism being the reason for her success is not a foreign concept to other twitter heads either
PERSONALLY, I do not understand how some say that her success trails back to the color of her skin. Cardi B is of Dominican and Trinidadian descent. Yes, her skin is light but her grind got her to where she is today.
Colorism is evident in today’s society but to say that it is a reason for her success is a stretch. People fell in love with Cardi B due to her personality, she did not start out as a rapper. She obtained a huge following from her witty videos on Instagram and Vine. I guess people forgot about the Cardi B who used to post goofy skits all over her Instagram with her crooked smile, hair wrap, and obnoxious laugh. She then gained an even BIGGER following from her ‘Love and Hip-Hop: New York career. People must have also forgotten “If a girl have beef with me she gonna have beef with me… FOREVA”. Now with her classic banger ‘Bodak Yellow’ Cardi B is a stranger to only a few.
Everybody loved her back then but now that she is making “boss moves” people want to hate. Why is it so hard for some in the African American community, better yet the FEMALE African American community, to praise someone for their accomplishments? People hate to see someone doing better than them. Maybe if you put half as much energy into your craft as you do hating maybe you would actually be somewhere.
Cardi continues to her grind as she works on her new project that it is said to be coming in October. It’s safe to say that Bodak Yellow will go down in history as a classic – 20 years from now we will be picking our kids up from school and hit them with the, “Yall don’t know nothing about this.”
CONGRATULATIONS CARDI!!