Cardi B’s Rise To The Top: A Story Through Quotes
Fresh off her MTV EMAs win in the category for Best Hip-Hop, Cardi B sat down for an interview wherein she opened up about her climb to the top of the ladder. Following the success of ‘WAP,’ Cardi has become one of the most powerful rappers on the scene and yet, she has no plans of resting on her laurels, atleast not anytime soon.
“I’m such an ambitious person. I feel like I lost so much. Now that I’m winning, it’s a very addicting feeling. I can go to sleep with the No. 1 record, but I’m going to sleep and thinking, ‘I need my other album to go No. 1,’” Cardi explained. She went on to confess that with the building pressures of the industry, she’s always been one to push herself and her team to put out something fresh every single time.
“I’m very hard on myself,” she admitted, “I’m hard on my entire team. We don’t focus on nobody else, we are just focusing on our last — the last music video, the last collaboration, we always compare it to our last best. We want to do better and better. When I do something positive and when I see my things selling out or my record doing pretty good, I get this crazy rush of happiness, but then it’s this rush of overwhelmingness that makes me want more [and] want more.” And so, in light of Cardi’s journey to the summit, we’re here to show you how she’s made such a prominent mark on the music landscape. It ultimately all boils down to a raging passion, practicality and perseverance. Take a look-
Photo Credits: Cardi B Official Instagram
Presenting: The Cardi B Work Ethic
1. “When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.”
2. “This is my work ethic: I do not want to raise my future kids where I was raised, and I know the only way to do it is working, working, working, working, working.”
3. “I’m so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, ‘Ayyyy!’ No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.”
4. “When I do music, I don’t feel like it’s competition. Then again, it kinda is, but I don’t like thinking like that. And I don’t understand why they do that to women and, especially, women in hip-hop.”
5. “I need to make money for my family and my future family. I’m not a YOLO person.”
6. “What counts the most for women is having the confidence to make your own money.”
7. “I have a passion for music; I love music. But I also have a passion for money and paying my bills.”
8. “To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn’t art, but the person you become when you’re famous – your alter ego – that’s art.”
9. “The women that inspire me to be honest are the women that struggle.”
10. “A lot of people always question, ‘What else can she do, what else can she do?’ And I’m going to show you.”
By: Nina Karun
