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Cardi B made history Sunday night with the first Grammy win of her career. The rapper took home Best Rap Album for Invasion of Privacy, the first time in Grammys history that a solo female artist has won the award.
Cardi is only the second woman to receive the honour; Lauryn Hill took home the award as a member of The Fugees in 1997 for the group’s album The Score (21 years ago). Throughout this whole time no other female rapper has managed to win this award.
People took to social media to bash on Cardi B winning as they thought she shouldn't have won. The reason: she has a ghostwriter.
I don’t know why people care so much about ghostwriting, especially in hip hop when so many pop artist have a team of writers and no one bats an eye lid. Cardi B is not the only rap artist to have a writer and she's not the first one. People have become so obsessed with authenticity that they've forgotten that music itself is like a group project, where an artist, producer etc shares a vision and want to see that come to life.
Cardi B came from nothing to becoming one of the biggest artists in the industry in just two years. Starting her career on Love & Hip Hop to creating the biggest songs of 2017 Bodak Yellow, which has accumulated 730million views on YouTube and topped the Hot 100 for three consecutive weeks, making it the second solo hip-hop number-one single by a female artist in the chart's history, following American rapper Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" in 1998.
On the 15th April 2018 Cardi B dropped her highly anticipated sophomore album Invasion of Privacy. A 13 track masterpiece that takes inspiration from Cardi’s Latin roots with ‘I Like It’ featuring J.Balvin and Bad Bunny to heartbreak with ‘Ring’ featuring RnB songstress Kehlani and learning to have fun with ‘Bickenhead’ with attitude like no other.
Last year people complained that Cardi B hadn’t been nominated for Record of The Year for Bodak Yellow and this year she was nominated alongside Pusha T’s Daytona, the late Mac Miller’s Swimming, Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap and Travis Scotts’ Astroworld. Which are all incredible albums and shouldn’t be disregarded as anything else. But Cardi’s performance style, personality and history-making records deserved the win.
The aftermath of Cardi winning was her having to defend her win against trolls - she took to Instagram with a video (that is no longer available as Cardi has now deleted her Instagram) but I’ll leave you with this quote from her "I remember last year when I didn't win for 'Bodak Yellow' and everyone was like, 'Cardi got snubbed.' Now this year's a fucking problem? My album went two-times platinum. Every chart that there was, my album was top 10. No. 1 album as well. I fucking worked my ass off and locked myself in the studio for three months. Didn't go to sleep in my own bed sometime for four days straight pregnant!"
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