Cardi B
Cardi B is a Bronx rapper whose candid voice runs through Bodak Yellow, I Like It and WAP, and her albums Invasion of Privacy and Am I the Drama?.
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- Born
- October 11, 1992 · New York City
- Full name
- Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar
- Hometown
- The Bronx, New York
- Work
- Rapper and recording artist
- Breakout
- Bodak Yellow · 2017
- Debut album
- Invasion of Privacy · 2018
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How it started.
Before the records, fans knew Cardi through her candid social posts and Love & Hip Hop: New York. She released her first Gangsta Bitch Music mixtape in 2016, followed by a second volume and an Atlantic Records deal in 2017.
The breakout.
Bodak Yellow became her first No. 1 single in 2017. Her debut album, Invasion of Privacy, arrived in April 2018, with songs including I Like It alongside Bad Bunny and J Balvin. In 2019, she became the first solo female artist to win the Grammy for Best Rap Album.
The next chapter.
Her 2025 follow-up, Am I the Drama?, brought together collaborators including Kehlani, Summer Walker and Tyla. Cardi told Apple Music’s Zane Lowe about the writer’s block behind the long wait. In 2026, she took the album on the Little Miss Drama arena tour and brought a live band to NPR’s Tiny Desk.
Creditschronological, newest first
- 2026Don’t Chart (from GTAVI: The Album)Recording artist
- 2025Am I the Drama?Lead artist · Second studio album
- 2020WAPLead artist, featuring Megan Thee Stallion
- 2018Invasion of PrivacyLead artist · Debut album
- 2018I Like ItArtist with Bad Bunny and J Balvin
- 2017Bodak YellowLead artist
Awards
Quotes
If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can’t have it, you just go and get it.Cardi B, Recording Academy artist biography
Trivia
- Her stage name grew out of the nickname Bacardi, a nod to her sister Hennessy’s name. She explained the story to Jimmy Fallon in 2017.
- Her Tiny Desk band includes saxophone, trumpet and background singers, with Adam Blackstone on bass, keys and musical direction.
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