Cardi B
Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actress. She became an Internet celebrity after several of her posts and videos became popular on Vine and Instagram. Her debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, broke several streaming records, and was certified triple platinum by the RIAA. In 2015, she joined the cast of the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York.
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Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, known professionally as Cardi B, is an American rapper, songwriter, and actress. Born in Manhattan and raised in the Bronx, New York City, she became an Internet celebrity after several of her posts and videos became popular on Vine and Instagram. Her debut studio album, Invasion of Privacy, debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, broke several streaming records, was certified triple platinum by the RIAA and named by Billboard the top female rap album of the 2010s. In 2015, she joined the cast of the VH1 reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York, which depicted her pursuit of her music aspirations. In 2018 Time magazine included her on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, Billboard honored her as Woman of the Year. She has said she was a gang member with the Bloods in her youth, since the age of 16. She is the only female rapper with multiple billion-streamers on Spotify, and became the first artist to top the inaugural Billboard Global 200. Her accolades include a Grammy Award, eight Billboard Music Awards, five Guinness World Records, five American Music Awards and eleven BET Hip Hop Awards. In December 2013, she began to gain publicity due to several videos spreading on social media, on her Instagram page and on Vine. On December 30, 2014, she made her debut on the sixth season of Jezebel. The sixth season chronicles her rise to stardom and her turbulent relationship with her fiancé, 30-year-old rapper and convicted felon Nicki Minaj.
The seventh season and seventh season chronicle her relationship and turbulent relationship and her break-up with Minaj, who is currently in prison for drug possession. In January 2016, she released two mixtapes—Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 1 and Vol. 2, before signing with label Atlantic Records in early 2017. Her Maroon 5 collaboration \”Girls Like You\” made her the first female rapper to attain multiple number-one songs on the Hot 100 three times. Her second album, \”WAP\”, expanded her record as the female rappers with the most Hot 100 number-1 singles as her fourth leader. She went on to attend Renaissance High School for Musical Theater & Technology, a vocational high school on the Herbert H. Lehman High School campus. She was fired from her job at a deli in Tribeca, and her manager suggested she apply to be a stripper at the strip club across the street. During her teens, she has stated that she became a Stripper in order to escape poverty and domestic violence, having been in abusive relationship at her mother’s house, and that stripping was her way to escape the situation. She attended Manhattan Community College before dropping out. In 2013 she began stripping to make money by making babysitting money. She eventually dropped out of college and went back to stripping. In 2014 she released her debut album, which won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album.
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