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Cardi B: Felony Assault · DISGRACELAND

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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: trench coat buttoned all the way up in the middle
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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: was probably once blonde, but was now too thin and
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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: to rub herself against the pole, but now her face
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  Speaker 2: had come alive. That big bronx personality was starting to
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  Speaker 2: take over to ham it up for the audience. Sitting
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  Speaker 2: on the floor straddling the pole, grinding gripping it with
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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: his demanding wife. She was all that mattered, and she
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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: good at stripping. Thinning hair Dude and trench coat purb
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  Speaker 2: were firmly in her grip near the point of climax
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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: twenty something Cardi B likely knew nothing of the nineteen
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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: ever come out of the Five Boroughs. Management at New
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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: fake boobs. Bell Callous needed to invest in herself to
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  Speaker 2: make that big bank, and so that's what she did,
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  Speaker 2: and before she knew it, she was one of the
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  Speaker 2: most in demand dancers in Manhattan, even traveling out of
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  Speaker 2: state for appearances. But it was her regular appearances on
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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
• 8:27
  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: was posting, and once that attitude, humor, and accent was
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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: first female rapper to go number one since Lauren Hill
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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: had a thing for the most hated Cardi B. There
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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
• 10:46
  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
• 11:39
  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
• 12:22
  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
• 12:30
  Speaker 2: too inspired. Her song popped out of speakers and headphones,
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  Speaker 2: everywhere organically, without digital armies rallying to some contrived campaign.
• 12:40
  Speaker 2: When her single overthrew Taylor Swifts, Cardi B was too
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  Speaker 2: ecstatic to let the rumors that Nicki Minaj was trying
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  Speaker 2: to mess with her money mess with her. Hater's gonna
• 12:49
  Speaker 2: hate hate hate, and a lot of haters hate it
• 12:52
  Speaker 2: and had lots to say about Cardi B. Another stripper
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  Speaker 2: turned rapper, amazing what passes for talent these days? Can
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  Speaker 2: you imagine all all the STDs she's carrying. Takes little
• 13:02
  Speaker 2: to no talent to create rap. Just write an expletive
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  Speaker 2: filled rant and put a drum beat to it. She
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  Speaker 2: did a vine that went viral celebrity status overnight. She
• 13:11
  Speaker 2: needs someone to shove something into her mouth. You sing
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  Speaker 2: what work? Get over your s O God, She's total trash,
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  Speaker 2: Wake up, you overrated stripper pure ghd tt oh. Cardi
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  Speaker 2: B is only interested in the schmuney and highly overrate.
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  Speaker 2: She's a train wreck headed for a dumpster viral, pure trash,
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  Speaker 2: Give me a fucking break, hard work? How hard can
• 13:34
  Speaker 2: it be? All of her songs are the same nasty,
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  Speaker 2: foul mouth lyrics over and over again. She needs to
• 13:39
  Speaker 2: go back to the crack house fuck that. There are
• 13:43
  Speaker 2: two hard truths about Cardi B. She is totally authentic
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  Speaker 2: and she works her ass off, just as her star
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  Speaker 2: was mid supernova ascent. Cardi B found out she was
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  Speaker 2: pregnant in September of twenty seventeen. She had gotten married
• 13:59
  Speaker 2: in secret the offset from Migos, the trio from Georgia
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  Speaker 2: behind the smash Bad and Bougie single. Rather than take
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  Speaker 2: time off as would have been totally acceptable, Cardi B
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  Speaker 2: put in work. There was a record to make. She
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  Speaker 2: locked herself in the studio for three months, worked round
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  Speaker 2: the clock and endured the constant fatigue and discomforts of pregnancy. Nausea,
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  Speaker 2: bloody noses, stuffy noses, anxiety, aches, pains, cravings, bloatings, headaches, constipation,
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  Speaker 2: mood swings, all without complaining, and throughout it all she
• 14:28
  Speaker 2: hunk tough and the result was undeniable. The album she
• 14:32
  Speaker 2: completed while Invasion of Privacy, was a smash creatively and commercially.
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  Speaker 2: Variety called it one of the most powerful debuts in
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  Speaker 2: the millennium. The New York Times brave that it was
• 14:43
  Speaker 2: a hip hop album that doesn't sound anything like any
• 14:46
  Speaker 2: of its temporal peers, and they were both right, especially
• 14:49
  Speaker 2: the times. Invasion of Privacy doesn't sound like anything else
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  Speaker 2: and a variety's point, the album is refreshingly raw. It's
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  Speaker 2: Cardi B's big, major label debut full length, but it's
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  Speaker 2: totally authentic to her unique voice and point of view.
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  Speaker 2: Nothing on it, not the production of lyrical content, is
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  Speaker 2: cleaned up or watered down for mass consumption. Yet the
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  Speaker 2: album debuted at number one on the Billboard Charts and
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  Speaker 2: Cardi B became the first female artist to chart thirteen entries.
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  Speaker 2: At the same time, Invasion of Privacy also became the
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  Speaker 2: most streamed album by a female artist in a single
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  Speaker 2: week's time. Two of the album's singles, Vodak Yellow and
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  Speaker 2: I Like It, shot to number one, and by the
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  Speaker 2: fall of twenty eighteen, six months after it was released,
• 15:33
  Speaker 2: Invasion of Privacy was certified double platinum, and when all
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  Speaker 2: was said and done, all of the album's thirteen tracks
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  Speaker 2: were certified gold or higher. Cardi B's debut album wasn't
• 15:46
  Speaker 2: your run of the mills success story. It was a
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  Speaker 2: massive smash, and that kind of success comes with perks,
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  Speaker 2: fame and money, of course, but also access doors opened
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  Speaker 2: for you that previously barred you from entry. In the
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  Speaker 2: fall of twenty eighteen, the guest list for Harper Bazaar's
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  Speaker 2: annual fashion Week Sore at Manhattan's prestigious Plaza Hotel listed
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  Speaker 2: Carti B's name along with an uber a list of
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  Speaker 2: guests including Kendall Jenner, Justin Thirow, Russell Westbrook, Meek mill
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  Speaker 2: A o G, Uptown Girl, Christy Brinkley, among others. Carti
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  Speaker 2: was distracted on the red carpet Nicki Minaj that first
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  Speaker 2: class pain in the ass was going to be there.
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  Speaker 2: Nicki and her Barb's bs, along with their low keyed
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  Speaker 2: disses on Instagram, liking posts that disparaged Carti's flow, etc.
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  Speaker 2: It all had Nicki Minaj on Cardi B's last nurve.
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  Speaker 2: But the offense that had Carti most upset was Nicki's
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  Speaker 2: supposed diss of Carti's parenting. After Carti had created one,
• 16:45
  Speaker 2: if not the most successful debuts by a female hip
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  Speaker 2: hop artist while pregnant, and had then decided against going
• 16:52
  Speaker 2: on the road with Bruno Mars, turning down a massive
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  Speaker 2: payday in order to stay home with a newborn baby
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  Speaker 2: culture and to rear that baby. Bond with that baby
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  Speaker 2: and raised that baby. Fuck Nicki Minaj and her Pink
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  Speaker 2: Friday Barbie bullshit. Nicki was decked out in a sequined
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  Speaker 2: tiger print gown straight off the runway, her hair blonde,
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  Speaker 2: maximum Vami and Carti strolled the red carpet in a
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  Speaker 2: massive dul jacabana gown scarlet with ruffles, announcing her arrival
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  Speaker 2: with the subtlety of a diamond encrusted sledgehammer. Her blood
• 17:21
  Speaker 2: red platform heels killed and were killing her and she
• 17:25
  Speaker 2: was in no mood. So when someone stepped on the
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  Speaker 2: train of her dress, Cardi B's blood boiled, and when
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  Speaker 2: she turned around to see that that someone was who
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  Speaker 2: she believed to be, Nicki Minaj, Carti lost it. She
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  Speaker 2: went at her hot and instantaneous a five foot three
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  Speaker 2: inch manic fury of violence, shouting down Nicki Minaj in
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  Speaker 2: that thick bronx accent and raging toward her. Security quickly
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  Speaker 2: sprang into action and threw themselves between the two brawling
• 17:53
  Speaker 2: hip hop divas. In the midst of the melee, Cardi
• 17:57
  Speaker 2: shouted out at Nikki, say some shit about my kid
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  Speaker 2: again and lunged through a security before Nikki's security stopped her.
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  Speaker 2: Then Cardi bent over and took off her shoe, the
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  Speaker 2: one with the sharp stiletto that had been driving her
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  Speaker 2: crazy since she'd arrived. It was no longer a fashion item.
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  Speaker 2: It's a weapon. Once freed from her foot and in
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  Speaker 2: her hand, Carti launched it straight at Nikki's head. Security
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  Speaker 2: scrambled to move Nikki out of the plaza. Cardi took
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  Speaker 2: the beat and realized her gown had been ripped so
• 18:22
  Speaker 2: bad her ass was hanging out. Her security used the
• 18:24
  Speaker 2: train to cover her and hustled her out of the
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  Speaker 2: plaza barefoot. A lesser woman would have been humiliated, but
• 18:31
  Speaker 2: not one who is so comfortable in her own semi
• 18:33
  Speaker 2: exposed skin. There was no humiliation for Cardi B. Plaza
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  Speaker 2: Hotel or not harveer'st bizarre Gala Fashion Week, Whatever the
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  Speaker 2: fuck this was who Cardi B was? Fuck them all
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: and fuck Nicki Minaj. Bitch had it coming. We'll be
• 18:47
  Speaker 2: right back after this word word word, Cardi B, quote
• 18:53
  Speaker 2: unquote emotional gangsta offered up regular relationship advice on record
• 18:58
  Speaker 2: and on Instagram two her forty five million plus followers
• 19:01
  Speaker 2: and fans. Carti's advice and matters of love were self empowering,
• 19:05
  Speaker 2: shamelessly materialistic, and came with just a hint of vulnerability.
• 19:10
  Speaker 2: Though she married in secret to Offset, Carti made no
• 19:13
  Speaker 2: secret about her love and admiration for her new husband,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but the relationship wasn't without problems. In late twenty seventeen,
• 19:21
  Speaker 2: Offset's iCloud account was hacked, revealing not only explicit videos
• 19:25
  Speaker 2: of Cardi from her days on the pole, but also
• 19:28
  Speaker 2: a video of one of Osset's friends, a young unidentified woman,
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: dancing naked in a hotel room. Rumors of the young
• 19:36
  Speaker 2: husband's infidelity lit the Internet on fire, and Carti blew
• 19:39
  Speaker 2: it all off with the rumors and the suspicion, and
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: no doubt stung, and these suspicions were likely swirling around
• 19:45
  Speaker 2: in her head. On August twenty nine, twenty eighteen, when
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: she and her entourage entered Angels Strip Club in Queen's,
• 19:51
  Speaker 2: New York. The night was supposed to be about blowing
• 19:54
  Speaker 2: off steam, having some fun, and that's what these places
• 19:57
  Speaker 2: were for, except now it would be Cardi b in
• 19:59
  Speaker 2: her entourage sitting on sticky wooden chairs in the audience,
• 20:03
  Speaker 2: making it rain singles onto the stage. Carti's time on
• 20:06
  Speaker 2: stage was over, but it didn't mean she couldn't appreciate
• 20:09
  Speaker 2: a good night out at the club with her man,
• 20:11
  Speaker 2: and that's what was set to happen when they entered.
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  Speaker 2: The bass bumping from the large subs under the beer
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  Speaker 2: stained stage, a shiny faux oak color dark like the
• 20:21
  Speaker 2: rest of the club, black barstools, and soft waves of
• 20:24
  Speaker 2: purple from the led striplights. The interior design, no doubt
• 20:29
  Speaker 2: intended to imply a sort of regal hip hop sexiness,
• 20:32
  Speaker 2: and the fake crystal chandelier above the stage, the overpriced
• 20:36
  Speaker 2: drinks and mandatory two drink minimum, the smell of urine
• 20:39
  Speaker 2: permeating the excitement and desperation in the air. It all
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: added up to an utter drag that was tolerable only
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: because near naked women were prancing around in thongs and
• 20:49
  Speaker 2: or hotpants and pasties, some strippers working on stage and
• 20:53
  Speaker 2: on the couches out back her lap dancing tips perfectly
• 20:56
  Speaker 2: legal intimate performances that went from innocent to prostate tutionin
• 21:00
  Speaker 2: with the first flash of real cash and the other women,
• 21:04
  Speaker 2: scantily clad waitresses and bartenders serving up watered down cocktails
• 21:08
  Speaker 2: to thugs on pervert row and professionals at the bar,
• 21:12
  Speaker 2: and to Carti's estimation, the bartenders were a problem, especially
• 21:16
  Speaker 2: that short one with the kinky hair and the impossibly
• 21:19
  Speaker 2: small waistline who called herself Jade. Carti was rolling deep.
• 21:23
  Speaker 2: Her man Offset and his group Migos were making a
• 21:26
  Speaker 2: paid appearance at the club. Carti had her security in
• 21:29
  Speaker 2: tow as well as some friends, a group that swelled
• 21:31
  Speaker 2: with hangers on. Once inside Angels, it was loud in
• 21:35
  Speaker 2: that bass bumping. Carti wanted something from the bar. She
• 21:39
  Speaker 2: glanced over. There was that little trick, Jade smiling, batting
• 21:43
  Speaker 2: those fake eyelashes, and her sister Batty G at the
• 21:46
  Speaker 2: other end of the stick. The two of them had
• 21:48
  Speaker 2: dudes three deep behind stools competing for their attention. Jade
• 21:52
  Speaker 2: was aware of Cardi B's presence. Everyone was so Jade
• 21:55
  Speaker 2: was stressing in her sister Batty G knew why she
• 21:58
  Speaker 2: and Jade had Cardio on watch ever since they ran
• 22:01
  Speaker 2: into her in a hotel lobby in Atlanta a couple
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: months earlier, where they claim Cardi rolled up on them
• 22:06
  Speaker 2: and out of nowhere, threatened to beat them down if
• 22:08
  Speaker 2: they messed with their man. Then, according to the sisters,
• 22:12
  Speaker 2: Cardi B backed her words up with continuous threats of
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: violence on Instagram. Jade and Betty G, if they weren't scared,
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: were at the very least cautious of Cardi. To the world,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: Cardi B was a hip hop social media superhero, but
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: to the sisters, she was hood as fuck, a blood
• 22:28
  Speaker 2: gang affiliate, totally intimidating. From behind the bar, Jade caught
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: Carti's stare. She tried avoiding it. Couldn't Cardi B AKA
• 22:37
  Speaker 2: the most hated bitch on the planet, as she had
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: jokingly referred to herself, her wrath as real in that room.
• 22:43
  Speaker 2: As the bumping sub Jade focused on the drink she
• 22:46
  Speaker 2: was making, pressed her thumb to the soda gun. It
• 22:49
  Speaker 2: spat out flat club soda from a dirty line into
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: a dirty glass with dirty smelling ice. As she grabbed
• 22:55
  Speaker 2: a lime, threw it into the glass and slid it
• 22:57
  Speaker 2: across the bar to the thug with the twenty. She
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: kept the change and kept her focus on the drinks,
• 23:02
  Speaker 2: avoiding the South Bronx sirens staring her down, and Jade
• 23:05
  Speaker 2: wondered what her sister was doing at the other end
• 23:07
  Speaker 2: of the bar. She was afraid to look up for
• 23:10
  Speaker 2: fear of catching Cardi's stare. She grabbed the gun again
• 23:13
  Speaker 2: and sprayed more so into the glass with a splash
• 23:15
  Speaker 2: of Smirnoff grabbed another line with her long, dirty fingers,
• 23:18
  Speaker 2: threw it into the glass and slid it across the
• 23:20
  Speaker 2: bar to the newest thug with the twenty. Then she
• 23:23
  Speaker 2: turned to the bar again, and that's when she felt
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: it crash right across her pretty face. Glass ice smear
• 23:30
  Speaker 2: it off. Then the swarm of thugs at the bar,
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: someone grabbed her hair, pulled her down. All she could
• 23:35
  Speaker 2: do was hear that voice, that familiar, thick bronx accent.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: You fuck my husband? What Jade thought? You fuck my husband? Jay,
• 23:44
  Speaker 2: amidst the melee thought to herself, how could she asked
• 23:47
  Speaker 2: me a question like that? How could she ask me?
• 23:49
  Speaker 2: I'm a sister, you asked me that. What do you
• 23:52
  Speaker 2: get your balls big enough to ask me that? Again,
• 23:55
  Speaker 2: that bronx accented voice, but now closer to her, above
• 23:59
  Speaker 2: her hovering, Just tell me, Jade thought to herself. I'm
• 24:03
  Speaker 2: not answering you. I'm not gonna answer that. It's stupid. Again,
• 24:07
  Speaker 2: the voice over the subs You're very smart, JD. You
• 24:11
  Speaker 2: give me all these answers, but you don't give me
• 24:13
  Speaker 2: the right answer. I'm gonna ask you again, did you
• 24:16
  Speaker 2: did you not? Jade in her head, I'm not gonna
• 24:20
  Speaker 2: answer it. It's a sick question. You're a sick fuck
• 24:22
  Speaker 2: and I'm not that sick that I'm gonna answer it.
• 24:24
  Speaker 2: I'm not telling you anything. You're a sick bastard. I
• 24:27
  Speaker 2: feel sorry for you. I really do you fuck my husband?
• 24:30
  Speaker 2: You fuck my husband. Then someone grabbed Jade by her hair,
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: long piercing nails like daggers dragged across your scalp. Jade
• 24:41
  Speaker 2: felt herself being pulled up over the bar, then a
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: hard thump to her skull. Jade could smell cigarette ashes,
• 24:47
  Speaker 2: could taste the grimy tobacco on her glossed lips. Then
• 24:51
  Speaker 2: smacks to the skull and a giant crash in the
• 24:53
  Speaker 2: back bar, broken glass, spilled water, all the result of
• 24:56
  Speaker 2: a giant hooka pipe that had been launched shatter. Finally
• 25:00
  Speaker 2: she was let go. She slid down behind the bar
• 25:03
  Speaker 2: to the sounds of the melee entering its second phase.
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: It's all over but the shrieking phase. Security hustling out
• 25:09
  Speaker 2: her attackers, her attackers busting out a final round of
• 25:12
  Speaker 2: shit talk, and then that big bronx accent again. Fuck
• 25:17
  Speaker 2: with my man, fuck with my money, fuck with my man,
• 25:20
  Speaker 2: my man, I'm blood. I'll fuck you bitches up. What
• 25:24
  Speaker 2: might have sounded intimidating, harsh, violent, aggressive, it was just
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: Cardi B being herself whatever and wherever the hell she
• 25:32
  Speaker 2: happened to be the club Instagram, same thing, Cardi B
• 25:35
  Speaker 2: being Cardi B, shouting down haters, and then it was over.
• 25:56
  Speaker 2: Authenticity is why Cardi B was at the top of
• 25:58
  Speaker 2: the game, number one hits, massive royalty checks, sold out shows, diamonds,
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: luxury automobiles, a new house for a mama, a book deal,
• 26:06
  Speaker 2: a movie deal, and a massive rabbit following. As Cardi
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: B says, I'm rich, bitch, and I smell like it.
• 26:13
  Speaker 2: The charges the sisters are throwing at her for the
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: incident of angels weren't anything to worry about. Cardi B
• 26:18
  Speaker 2: showed up in court looking like a corporate hood goddess
• 26:20
  Speaker 2: and rejected the plea deal. She'd beat the rout. It
• 26:24
  Speaker 2: was kids stuck the misdemeanor charge of reckless endangerment and assault,
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: and it only carried a short prison sentence, probably a year,
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: maybe five. Whatever, she knew she'd beat him. After all,
• 26:35
  Speaker 2: she'd done worse and got away with it. Trench coat
• 26:38
  Speaker 2: Purv sat on the edge of the bed, nervous and
• 26:41
  Speaker 2: the hotel room is too expensive, but still the ac
• 26:44
  Speaker 2: was busted, and the room was too hot, and he
• 26:46
  Speaker 2: was too shy to take off his coat, and so
• 26:49
  Speaker 2: he just sat there, afraid to make eye contact with
• 26:52
  Speaker 2: the dancer whose offer he'd taken up. It was just
• 26:55
  Speaker 2: too good to refuse, and she was too sexy, and
• 26:57
  Speaker 2: he was too obsessed. He'd been falling allong around the
• 27:00
  Speaker 2: city since she got her start, at first on the subways,
• 27:03
  Speaker 2: then at various clubs where she danced, and finally to
• 27:06
  Speaker 2: disappearance on stage in Toronto. He nearly came in his
• 27:10
  Speaker 2: pants when she leaned over and sing song into his ear.
• 27:13
  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, you want to fuck me? Yeah yeah, Let's
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: go back to my hotel and you can fuck me
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: all night. It was too much, he said nothing, just
• 27:22
  Speaker 2: stood up, pulled his wallet out of his pocket, opened
• 27:24
  Speaker 2: it to check its contents, flashed his water cash, gave
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: her a look and a nod toward the door. Within
• 27:29
  Speaker 2: seconds that were bouncing down the street toward the hotel
• 27:32
  Speaker 2: she'd mentioned. Once in the room, his mood changed, his
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: shyness had taken over, and she wanted to party. She
• 27:39
  Speaker 2: cracked the mini bar open and grabbed two nips near
• 27:41
  Speaker 2: knock for him, the cardi for her. She told him
• 27:44
  Speaker 2: to close his eyes while she got undressed. It was
• 27:46
  Speaker 2: part of the tea, she said, And when she did,
• 27:49
  Speaker 2: she slipped the powder into the smeir knof bottle, pulled
• 27:51
  Speaker 2: off her faux fur coat, grabbed him by the back
• 27:53
  Speaker 2: of the head with both hands, and buried his face
• 27:55
  Speaker 2: into her naked ample bosom, letting out that big bronx
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: laugh in the process. She shook his head free of
• 28:02
  Speaker 2: her chest, turned to the desk to grab the nips,
• 28:04
  Speaker 2: gave him his smirnov already uncapped, and proposed a toast
• 28:08
  Speaker 2: to get in that shmuney. He laughed, raised his bottle
• 28:11
  Speaker 2: to hers, shot it down and fell back onto the bed.
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: He felt instantly relaxed, and then when he awoke he
• 28:18
  Speaker 2: was tied up to the bed, his wrists bound by
• 28:21
  Speaker 2: his socks, hit his naked and absent his trench coat
• 28:24
  Speaker 2: with his limp little ticket taker exposed. He felt a
• 28:27
  Speaker 2: sharp shriek of embarrassment, But when he saw his wallet
• 28:30
  Speaker 2: lying on the bed below him and all of its
• 28:31
  Speaker 2: contents totally gone in the wind, just like her, he
• 28:35
  Speaker 2: felt humiliated. The robbery was straight hood, just like Cardi B.
• 28:40
  Speaker 2: That Cardi B didn't care. She let the world know
• 28:43
  Speaker 2: in an Instagram story, boasting about drugging and robbing men
• 28:46
  Speaker 2: from her stripping days as a means of survival. It
• 28:49
  Speaker 2: was a different reality for her then, but that reality
• 28:52
  Speaker 2: informed her and she never ran from it. Nothing was
• 28:55
  Speaker 2: handed to her. She had to go out and get it,
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: and that didn't change with success. There was no more
• 29:00
  Speaker 2: stripping or robbing, but there was still Cardi B. Who
• 29:03
  Speaker 2: She was, her authentic self, hustling, hard working, shit talking
• 29:08
  Speaker 2: big and proud, defending herself against their haters, against women
• 29:12
  Speaker 2: out to take her man, against divas out to keep
• 29:14
  Speaker 2: her down. And there was no faking need to make
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: it because she'd made it by being her own damn
• 29:19
  Speaker 2: self every step of the way, without compromise. Once more
• 29:23
  Speaker 2: rock and roll or punk, good gangster about that nothing
• 29:27
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