– blogged by @lovelikejhoney
Female rap star, #CardiB, shocks the world again with her blatant honesty. This time, in a GQ Magazine feature, she shares her experience getting butt injections.
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“All right, here’s the thing,” begins Cardi B when asked about work done on her body. “When I was 21, I did not have enough meat on my body—if I was to get lipo, I wouldn’t have fat for my ass.” For only $800, in a basement apartment in Queens, New York, she soon underwent an illegal and dangerous procedure to inject her buttocks with fillers. “They don’t numb your ass with anything,” Cardi continued. “It was the craziest pain ever. I felt like I was gonna pass out. I felt a little dizzy. And it leaks for, like, five days.”
Despite the pain, the platinum recording artist says she wanted a bigger butt to make more money at the strip club—regardless of how well she danced, Cardi noticed the bigger the booty, the bigger the tip. It was also around the time, she found out her ex-boyfriend cheated on her with a woman who, Cardi described, “had a fat, big ass.”
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The next topic was one Cardi had been avoiding: her affiliation with the blood gang.
“I never really wanted to talk about that, because I always wanted a music deal. I always want to keep my endorsements. When I was 16 years old, I used to hang out with a lot of Bloods. I used to pop off with my homies. And they’d say, ‘Yo, you really get it poppin’. You should come home. You should turn Blood.’ And I did. Yes, I did.”
But it wasn’t until three years after her joining that she realized the damage. At age 19, Cardi began stripping and it changed her life. “One thing I could say….you could ask any gang member: Being in a gang don’t make you not one dollar,” she continued. “When I was a stripper, I didn’t give a fuck about gangs, because I was so focused on making money.”
“And sometimes I see people that’s in the same gang kill each other. So sometimes there is no loyalty. Sometimes you gotta do certain things to get higher, to get higher and higher. You’re doing all of that and you not making money off of it. That’s why I don’t talk about it much. Because I wouldn’t want a young person, a young girl, to think it’s okay to join it,” Cardi elaborated.
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The interview also spoke of her sudden success over the summer with her debut hit “Bodak Yellow”, followed up with two features both reaching Billboard’s Top 10. Prior to her musical accomplishments, Cardi was popular for her Instagram comedy and reality TV show ”Love and Hip-Hop”. “I feel like I’m not in control of my life,” she confessed. For a single day off, “I would have to call so many people. I would have to call the label, my management, my publicist. It’s like a partnership. I’m the artist, but I don’t feel like I have a higher position than anybody that’s working for me. If I don’t want to work tomorrow, I cannot just stop working, because then, how’s other people gonna feed their family? It is a lot of pressure.”
But like she said in her 5x platinum record, “I ain’t got no time to chill,” she meant every word.
