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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!"