YMMV / Cardi B

• Awesome Music: "Bodak Yellow" and "I Like It" are probably her two most beloved/celebrated songs.
  • Her features on "Girls Like You", "Motorsport", "Finesse", and "No Limit" are also big hits.
• Best Known for the Fanservice: Her music videos. They often feature her and other women dancing in raunchy attire.
• Critical Dissonance: In spite of numerous awards, critical acclaim, and even being awarded Woman of the Year by Billboard in 2020, Cardi B has a very vocal group of detractors thanks to Hype Aversion and her equally vocal regular fandom, to the point where she even reaches Memetic Loser status on sites like Reddit and certain parts of YouTube. The success (and controversy) of her song "WAP" has only made her hatedom even more vocal, even attracting the attention of politicians on both sides of the spectrums.
• Fandom Rivalry: Cardi B vs Nicki Minaj, seeing as they're the two biggest female rappers. This is further amplified by their real-life catfights.
• Fan Nickname: Cardigan Backyardigan, after this tweet.
• Fountain of Memes: Cardi has had a lot of memes centered around her, such as;
  • The meme of Cardi as an upsetting tattletale child (the one using a throwback photo of her when she was 5 years old) is the most infamous.
  • #SurivingCardiB^Explanation Backlash followed when a 2016 livestream of Cardi claiming she drugged and robbed men in her early days, with people comparing her to Bill Cosby and R. Kelly, hence the hashtag. This was made worse when she made an excuse she did so to survive, though it would eventually go away when she took back her claim and declared she never drugged anyone.
  • "CORONAVAHRUS! Shit is real!" ^Explanation  a video Cardi put on Instagram featured a rather animated rant about coronavirus - numerous Voice Clip Songs ensued - one by a DJ known as iMarkkeyz even got to #11 on the iTunes chart, helped along by Cardi herself retweeting the remix
• Fridge Brilliance: The floor panels in the WAP music video resemble the floor pattern from the Black Lodge in Twin Peaks. Now look at what Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are flaunting.
• Never Live It Down: Her comments about allegedly drugging and setting men up during her days as a stripper are still a bit unsettling.
• No Such Thing as Bad Publicity: In an interview, she admitted that she was surprised that a certain subset of conservative white men (notably Ben Shapiro) took such umbrage to "WAP" because all they were doing was giving her and Megan Thee Stallion free marketing. She welcomed them to keep talking about it because that meant more streams.
• Signature Song: "I Like It" and "Bodak Yellow", though "WAP" may be giving them a run for their money as well.
• Squick: Some listeners find that the line "macaroni in a pot, that's some wet-ass pussy" from "WAP" is pretty gross, to the point of being Fetish Retardant. Some of them have even had trouble eating mac & cheese after listening to the song.

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