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Emily DiDonato (born February 24, 1991) is an American model
Born in Goshen, New York, DiDonato is of Italian, Irish, and Native American ancestry. Her great-grandparents immigrated to the U.S. from Italy.
Emily was scouted at The Danbury Mall when she was 10 years old by Tina
Kiniry from John Casablancas Modeling & Acting Agency of
Connecticut. Tina introduced Emily to Request Model Management in 2008
and she booked jobs as the face of Guess? clothing for spring 2009 and as a model in Ralph Lauren’s “Rugby” spring 2009 advertisement campaign.
Emily is an American model that burst onto the scene in the
early 2000’s, and has been a fixture in the fashion industry since. She
was discovered by an agent at John Casablancas Agency as a young teen,
and eventually catapulted her success by starring in the GUESS by
Marciano campaign of Spring/Summer 2009, with photographer Matthias
Vreins-McGrath.Emily has also been featured in top campaigns for
Maybelline, Calvin Klein, Missoni, Longchamp and Gap. Didonato is
highly-desired model on the runway as well, walking for high-fashion
designers like Chanel, Balmain, Louis Vuitton and many more.
She made her Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue debut in 2013, with photos taken in Namibia.
Ariana Grande - The light is Coming ft. Nicki Minaj: 🔥🔥
“The Light Is Coming" is a song by American singer Ariana Grande, featuring American rapper Nicki Minaj. The song was released on June 20, 2018, along with the pre-order of Grande’s upcoming fourth studio album, Sweetener, as a promotional single. It was produced by Pharrell Williams.
Cardi B Confirms She and Offset Are Married: ‘There Are Moments I Want to Keep for Myself’
Yes, Cardi B and Migos’ Offset are married and no, no one knew about it — but the Invasion of Privacy rapper says that’s exactly the way she wanted it.
“This why I name my album Invasion of Privacy cause people will do the most to be [nosy] about your life. Well f— it,” Cardi B, 25, tweeted Monday after a TMZ report surfaced claiming she and her fiancé, 26, secretly tied the knot nine months ago.
“There are so many moments that I share with the
world and then there are moments that I want to keep for myself! Getting
married was one of those moments! Our relationship was so new breaking
up and making up and we had a lot of growing up to do but we was so in
love we didn’t want to lose each other, was one morning in September we
woke up and decided to get married,” she wrote.
“We found someone to marry us, and she did, just the two of us and my
cousin. I said I do, with no dress no make up and no ring! I appreciate
and love my husband so much for still wanting for me [to] have that
special moment that every girl dreams of when he got down on his knee and put a ring on my finger and he did that for me!!”
The pregnant rapper, who’s expecting a daughter
in early July, then ended her missive with a sassy kicker: “Well now
since you lil [nosy] fucks know at least ya can stop saying I had a baby
out of wedlock.”
A marriage certificate obtained
by TMZ on Monday shows that Kiari Kendrell Cephus and Belcalis Marlenis
Almanzar — a.k.a. Offset and Cardi B — were married on Sept. 20, 2017
in Atlanta, Georgia. Therefore, when Offset got down on one knee
on stage at the Philly Powerhouse concert on Oct. 27 and proposed to
the chart-topping artist, the two had already been married for over a
month.
Fans began speculating that the couple may be husband
and wife at the BET Awards on Sunday night. During his brief speech,
Offset gave Cardi B a shoutout, remarking “Thank God, I thank my wife,
you should thank yours.”
While the two have already said their vows, Cardi B told PEOPLE in January that she and her fiancé were planning an “extravagant” wedding.
“It’s gonna be extravagant. You know, we’re both
rappers,” she told the magazine. “We’re both artists, so it has to be a
very extravagant wedding.”
While it is unclear if the duo still plans on throwing a wedding
party, Cardi B and Offset promise to deliver on another event: The baby
shower for their first child.
“I want a lit baby shower,” Cardi B told Rolling Stone
in a recent interview. “My baby shower’s not starting at no 5:00. My s–
is going to start at 9 p.m. because that’s how I celebrate, that’s how
Caribbean people celebrate.”
For now, it seems like any marriage-related plan will take a backseat to the incoming addition, due in just a few weeks.
“Baby shower planning makes me not even wanna do a wedding,” Cardi B wrote on Twitter Saturday. “Shit soo overwhelming.”
The couple have been on the fast track from the
beginning. Cardi B and Offset went on their first date at Super Bowl LI
in February 2017, and by May of that year, the couple were costarring in
Cardi B’s mixtape, Gangsta Bitch Music, Vol. 2. Offset proposed in October 2017 with an 8-carat pear-shaped diamond ring — but the couple was already wed.
The two hit a rough patch just a few months after Offset’s onstage
proposal when allegations swirled that Offset had an affair and made a
sex tape with another woman in January. But Cardi B stuck by her man.
“This is my life,” Cardi B told Cosmopolitan
in February. “I’m going to take my time, and I’m going to decide on my
decision… It’s not right, what he fucking did — but people don’t know
what I did, ’cause I ain’t no angel.”
Since the scandal, the couple has looked toward the future. Offset got a tattoo of Cardi B’s name on his neck, and the two confirmed their pregnancy — via a live baby bump reveal on SNL — in April 2018. Their daughter will be Cardi B’s first child, and Offset’s fourth.
“I have been so open to people about myself. People
cannot expect me to be open about everything. Certain things to me, it
has to be private. You cannot invade my privacy,” Cardi said — taking
the same approach to her marriage confirmation as she did her pregnancy,
despite rumors running rampant. “I’m not a damn animal at the zoo.”
Beyonce and Jay-Z Drop Surprise Joint Album ‘Everything Is Love’
It’s finally here! Beyoncé and Jay-Z surprised fans with the release of their highly anticipated joint album, Everything Is Love, on Saturday, June 16.
The superstars also dropped a music video for the nine-track project’s lead single, “ApeShit.”
The album is not the couple’s first collaboration. They had previously released 12 songs together, including “’03 Bonnie & Clyde” (2002), “Crazy in Love” (2003), “Drunk in Love” (2013) and “Part II (On the Run)” (2013).
Jay-Z, 48, revealed in a wide-ranging interview with The New York Times
in November that he and Beyoncé, 36, had begun recording a joint album.
However, the project was temporarily shelved as they shifted their
focuses to their most recent solo albums, 4:44 (2017) and Lemonade (2016), respectively.
“We still have a lot of that music,” the Roc Nation founder said at the time.
The pair are currently in the midst of their coheadlining OTR II tour. They
are traveling across Europe and North America from June to October,
with stops at U.S. stadiums such as the Rose Bowl in Los Angeles;
MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey; and Mercedes-Benz
Superdome in New Orleans. Queen Bey previously headlined the 2018 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California, in April with a show-stopping set that fans branded “Beychella.”
The Grammy winners — who are the parents of daughter Blue Ivy, 6, and
twins Rumi and Sir, 12 months — previously toured together in the summer
of 2014. Their HBO concert special from the Paris stops of the On the Run trek received an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Special Class Program.
This week XXXTentacion’s ‘Sad!’ Vaults From No. 52 to No. 1 on Billboard Hot 100 Following Rapper/Singer’s Death
The song, which reached a prior No. 7 high in March, surges after he was shot & killed June 18.
XXXTentacion posthumously tops the Billboard Hot 100,
as his single “Sad!” jumps from No. 52 to No. 1 for its first week atop
the chart. The song, which had first peaked at No. 7 on March 31,
reaches the summit after the rapper/singer died June 18 at age 20 after being shot in Deerfield Beach, Florida.
He is the first artist to top the Hot 100 posthumously in a lead role since The Notorious B.I.G., with “Mo Money Mo Problems,” in 1997.
Here’s
a deeper look at the top 10 of the Hot 100 (dated June 30), which
blends all-genre streaming, radio airplay and digital sales data.
All charts will update on Billboard.com tomorrow (June 26).
“Sad!,”
released on the Bad Vibes Forever label, and the 1,075th No. 1 in the
Hot 100’s 59-year history (and XXXTentacion’s first), likewise leads the
Streaming Songs
chart for the first time, surging from No. 34 (besting its prior No. 2
high), up 264 percent to 48.9 million U.S. streams in the week ending
June 21, according to Nielsen Music (a higher sum than projected last week before all streaming data was compiled).
“Sad!” re-enters Digital Song Sales
at No. 5 (surpassing its previous No. 26 peak), up 659 percent to
26,000 downloads sold in the week ending June 21 (as it makes the Hot
100’s greatest gains in streaming and sales). While the track has not
reached the Radio Songs chart, it nearly doubled its airplay audience to 2.9 million in the week ending June 24.
The song is from XXXTentacion’s album ?, which debuted at No. 1 on the March 31-dated Billboard 200 and bounds 24-3 as the June 30 chart’s Greatest Gainer (94,000 equivalent album units, up 397 percent, in the week ending June 21).
“Sad!” concurrently takes over atop the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and Hot Rap Songs charts (where it had previously reached Nos. 4 and 3, respectively), becoming XXXTentacion’s first No. 1 on each ranking.
XXXTentacion becomes the eighth soloist to have topped the Hot 100 posthumously, and the first in a lead role in over 20 years.
Static Major
had become the last act to reach No. 1 following his death, as featured
on Lil Wayne’s “Lollipop,” which began a five-week reign on May 3,
2008; Static Major died unexpectedly from internal bleeding Feb. 25 that
year. Before Static Major, Soulja Slim
led the Hot 100 posthumously as featured on Juvenile’s “Slow Motion,”
for two weeks starting Aug. 7, 2004; Soulja Slim was shot and killed
Nov. 26, 2003.
XXXTentacion is the first artist to appear atop the
Hot 100 posthumously in a lead role since The Notorious B.I.G., who
earned two No. 1s following his March 9, 1997, shooting death: “Mo Money
Mo Problems” (featuring Puff Daddy and Mase), which led for two weeks
(Aug. 30 and Sept. 6, 1997), and “Hypnotize” (three weeks, beginning May
3, 1997).
Cardi B and Offset: A Hip-Hop Love Story: July 2018 Rollingstone Issue
Inside the lives of two chart-topping pop stars as they prepare their greatest collaboration yet: A baby girl
One humid afternoon in Atlanta, Cardi B, the new princess of
hip-hop, wakes up in an endless white mansion flanked by tall trees.
This is her fiancé’s castle – he’s Offset from Migos – and there are
enough six-figure cars parked outside to form a small-town parade. By
the curved dark-wood door, his friends smoke blunts in tracksuits as
bright as British guardsmen’s jackets. Cardi, 25, and Offset, 26, are
buying a new home shortly, and building a dream house too. But for now,
this is the spot.
Waking up late, Cardi pads around the
house barefoot in a yellow cotton dress pulled tight over her swollen,
nearly seven-and-a-half-months-pregnant belly. She eats a salad, manages
the feat of typing on her phone with three-inch rhinestone-encrusted
fake nails, and relaxes into a leather chair. Half zoning out, half
watching Avatar, about a different princess and her race to save a
far-off moon, she lets out a deep sigh. We are in the late stages of
Cardi’s pregnancy and she’s finally wrapped the promotion for her first
album, Invasion of Privacy, which topped the charts and set a
record for the most first-week streams by a female artist on Apple
Music. The exhausting pace of the past months – spent recording songs,
perfecting a raft of lush videos and hiding her belly from the paparazzi
– is receding now. All she needs to do is enjoy the next seven weeks
before she becomes a mom.
But being Cardi, she can’t
quite do that. In her songs, she may seem like a 24/7 bad bitch, but
today, her face scrubbed clean of makeup and unbrushed, Rapunzel-like
blond wig hanging to her waist, she’s a curious combination of raunchy
extrovert and angst-plagued introvert. Right now, she’s worrying about
the upcoming baby shower for the girl inside her tummy, which she still
hasn’t planned. “I’ve got to buy mad flights for my friends from New
York,” she says, jiggling her leg, a childhood habit that she indulges
in when she’s nervous. “I haven’t even sent the invitations.” Her eyes
dart around the room. “I forget everything.”
She’s saying this to a couple of members of
Offset’s extended family who have dropped by for a visit, one of them
carrying an infant in tiny white, spotlessly clean sneakers. They listen
and nod along, then try to boost her confidence. “You got it like that,
you’re a ballplayer,” one says to her. “Ballplayer, my ass!” Cardi
replies, shaking her head. She closes her eyes, contemplating her to-do
list.
Then they spring open. “I want a lit baby shower,”
she declares, waving around a bejeweled finger that catches the light
of a grand chandelier hanging behind her while echoing an earlier
thought. “My baby shower’s not starting at no 5:00. My shit is going to
start at 9 p.m. because that’s how I celebrate, that’s how Caribbean
people celebrate.” She lets out one of her trademark cackles. “I don’t
like baby showers that be at 5 p.m. in the backyard, eating, cooking
hors d'oeuvres. Nah.” She gets a mischievous look on her face. “Shit, I
might even drink some red wine. Red wine’s healthy, right?”
Offset’s
family was laughing, but this makes them stop. “Don’t let Mama see you
drinking that red wine,” says one of them, referring to Offset’s mom.
“She’s going to have a fit.” Cardi laughs, but then appears to think
this over. She’s going to be a mother. She has responsibilities to
assume.
In the year or so since she’s become hip-hop’s breakout
star, Cardi has come to represent the best of what we value as a
country: She’s our irrepressibly cute, sexy, silly, filthy-mouthed
Binderella who bootstrapped her way from the streets to celebrity. Once
positioning herself as little more than a “regular, degular, shmegular
girl from the Bronx,” she’s transformed into a multimedia artist with
powerful facets to her personality both on and off the stage. She’s a
Caribbean queen purveying the Latin-trap sound (see her Top 10 hit and
song-of-the-summer candidate “I Like It”); she’s an ex-stripper with
butt injections who’s after your money; she’s a possible former member
of the Bloods and such a city girl that she never got a driver’s license
and says today that she still carries a knife.
Growing
up with a cab-driving Dominican dad and a strict Trinidadian mom who
worked as a cashier, Cardi, born Belcalis Almanzar, rebelled early,
fighting with her mom and misbehaving at school. By 19, she was living
with a boyfriend who, she says, abused her. Stripping “saved me,” she
has said, meaning the money made her independent. She started hosting
parties (her job was to “get things turnt up”) and gathered 80,000
followers as a hot girl with a wicked sense of humor on Instagram. She
leveraged her role on VH1’s Love & Hip-Hop to launch a rap
career, which took off with the release of “Bodak Yellow” last June. “I
built the fan base,” she declares, whipping a few blond locks over a
shoulder. “No record label, no money, nothing can make you. You make
yourself.”
Even with her wild success, guileless
personality and castle-dwelling lifestyle, Cardi in conversation still
comes across as someone who might pull a knife on you if need be. She
expresses genuine indignation toward people who look down on her for her
accent and lack of education, and complains about trolls on the
Internet: “These people who want to take food out of my mouth, and my
future child’s mouth and my parents’ mouth – for what?” And when she
looks back at her past, it’s not through rose-colored glasses. She
resents growing up without money and the limited choices that
institutionalized poverty offered her, and uses that energy every day to
propel forward her music and her dreams, especially her dreams for her
baby.
The baby – that’s all anyone is talking about here
today. Bounding over with a beaming smile, Offset hands Cardi his phone,
where his mom is waiting to talk to her on FaceTime. She wants to
discuss whether Cardi should fly with Offset to New York soon, or if
flying late in pregnancy is dangerous for the baby, and also, by the
way, has she gone shopping for furniture for the new house yet? Cardi
listens, nodding her head, polite, but when Offset hangs up the phone,
she stares into space.
Born Kiari Kendrell Cephus, Offset has a rap sheet that
includes gun and drug charges and an eight-month stint in jail, and has
fathered three children with three different women. But the world knows
him from Migos’ platinum albums and the crossover success of “Bad and Boujee”
(which he chalks up to “people wanting the real shit!”). Wearing a
tight white T-shirt and multiple diamond chains wrapped around his neck,
and speaking in a tender tone, he is dapper and handsome, a lady killer
to Cardi’s sex bomb. When I ask if he has a jewelry addiction, he says,
“I don’t have an addiction, I have a fetish.”
Furniture
has been moved out of the first-floor parlor room in this home so he can
hang dozens of his outfits, paired with shoes, because he can’t fit all
his clothes in an upstairs closet; Cardi rolls her eyes at this and
says, “He’s a boy.” His hands are also cut up from a vicious accident
with his green 2018 Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat two weeks ago. Six
stitches cover the front of a palm. When Cardi first saw him after the
accident, covered in blood, she thought he was shot and almost lost her
mind.
Their romance is a hip-hop love story – a first date at the Super Bowl in 2017 (“That’s a power move,” Offset told Rolling Stone),
followed about eight months later by his marriage proposal, on his knee
with an eight-carat engagement ring, onstage during a Philadelphia
concert. A couple of months later, there was a slight derailment in the
tunnel of love: An iCloud hack allegedly caught Offset in a compromising
position with another woman, but he and Cardi made amends, and he inked
a new tattoo of Cardi’s name on his neck. (Cardi defended her decision
to forgive him, in part, by telling a magazine, “I ain’t no angel.”) In
April, Cardi publicly debuted the baby bump on Saturday Night Live in a form-fitting white dress, followed by a video posted online of her jumping around backstage yelling, “I’m finally free!”
As
the lovebirds chat, Cardi absentmindedly caresses Offset’s arm, and
later she says, “People want to make fun of me, saying I’m the fourth
baby mom,” but “I know I’m not having a baby with a shitty-ass man.”
Offset explains, “We really love each other. She’s real. I wanted real. I
also wanted successful.” He isn’t threatened by his fiancée’s success,
as some men might be. “My mama was the man of my household,” he says,
adding, almost as a proclamation, “Guys, fellas! You’ll lose your wife
trying to stop them from being the best they can.” These days, Offset is
trying to take a page from Cardi and become more open and engaging in
public, instead of portraying himself as hard. “That’s what I need to
work on – my charisma in front of people,” he says solemnly.
Motherhood, the circumscribed world of diapers and
bottles and putting up play swings – Cardi is looking forward to
crossing into it. She has a strict mom, Offset has a tough mom, and she
grew up with a Caribbean vision of motherhood that involves tending
closely to your child and trying to keep them from “eating in the
streets.” Of course, she’s nervous, too, about her new responsibilities:
“I’m scared I won’t be that kind of mom,” she confesses.
Was
the baby planned? Well, no. Late last year, Cardi began to be grossed
out by food and not feel quite right. She and Offset had had some sexy
pillow talk about making a baby, but she didn’t mean it – not right now.
When a home pregnancy test came back positive, she immediately
FaceTimed him. “He was like, ‘What? Are you sure?‘ ” she says. “I said,
‘Yeah.’ And then he just started smiling really hard.”
At
first, she kept the pregnancy quiet, talking with Offset about what to
do. “He said, ‘What do you mean, what are you going to do? You’re going
to keep it.' ” She was consumed with worry. “A lot of successful women
have kids, and a lot of successful artists have kids, but not at the
peak of their career,” she says. And when she told her close friends and
her team, they were apprehensive. “It was like, ‘You can’t do this.
This might fuck up your career,' ” she declares, resting her hands on
her lap.
Making Invasion of Privacy became a
logistical puzzle. Even as Cardi was trying to sync competing demands –
keeping club appearances and concerts she’d already booked, starting
work on the album, lining up directors for her videos – word leaked to
Atlantic, her label, that she was pregnant. “The media didn’t even let
me tell people, and I hated that,” she says. “I really wanted to tell
them [Atlantic Records] myself, to sit down with them and tell everybody
that I am pregnant and I have a plan.”
The label recommended that
Cardi record far from New York, to avoid the distraction of friends and
family. At four months pregnant, she says, she entered a studio in L.A.
but was too drowsy from pregnancy hormones to concentrate. “We were
making green juice and coffee,” she says. “I used to tell God, ‘Please
don’t make me sleepy.' ” After confessing her pregnancy to her engineer,
she asked him and producers to tag along with her, to where she had
prebooked appearance dates, to record on the fly. “All of the creative
team kind of followed her around the country, from L.A. to Miami to
Atlanta to New York, back to Atlanta,” says Craig Kallman, the CEO of
Atlantic Records. Some nights, she’d sleep in the studio; others, she
would try to get a good night’s rest to maintain her health for herself
and the baby. “I was blown away by her stamina,” Kallman says, plus “her
inner strength and her creative instincts.”
Offset consulted with Cardi each step of the way. She has broken up
with her manager Klenord “Shaft” Raphael, who is suing her and her new
team for more than $10 million. She’s not embarrassed about using
“co-writers”: Pardison Fontaine, who wrote the main verse of “Be
Careful,” is a “dope-ass artist,” she says. Offset helped with Invasion of Privacy,
he says, by, among other things, calling Chance the Rapper to
collaborate on “Best Life.” “She doesn’t want to call and ask, ‘Can you
do this song?’ You don’t think she’s shy, but she don’t like asking for
no feature or no song, nothing. But I don’t give a damn.”
Invasion of Privacy
is the great album that Cardi didn’t really need to make, converting
her huge personality into hooks, laugh lines (“Only thing fake is the
boobs!”) and whispers about wanting a man who’ll take care of her heart.
It’s the music version of her Instagram – all killer, no filler. Offset
says their artistic instincts are mostly aligned, though he loves
Auto-Tune, she hates it. She doesn’t want to pretend, doesn’t want to
assume a generic voice. “She wants you to hear the struggle, so you feel
it,” he says.
Offset’s musical ambitions are vast. He’s
considering putting out solo tracks this summer, including
collaborations with 21 Savage and Metro Boomin. He wants the legacy of
artists he idolized growing up: Michael Jackson, Sammy Davis Jr., James
Brown and Prince, plus Lil Wayne and Lil Boosie (now Boosie Bad-azz). He
was a standout dancer as a kid, putting on Jackson’s dress shirt and
socks to entertain his mom, and even performing behind Usher and Whitney
Houston in music videos shot in Atlanta. “Everything has to be tight,”
says Offset. “It’s got to be a masterpiece like Michael Jackson’s, the
same way he treated his music, his dance moves, his stage presence, his
outfit, his hair, makeup, whatever it was.”
When I ask each of
them what they do for fun, they laugh. They aren’t into clubs (“Too much
bull,” says Offset), or cooking (amply clear from a kitchen filled with
takeout containers) or even binge-watching TV. What music do they
listen to? Their own, mostly, both to enjoy it and to meditate on how to
make it better. The previous week, Cardi even tweeted that she was
amazed that Donald Glover and Childish Gambino look so much alike, not
realizing they’re the same person. “When you look for him on Apple, his
covers are not his face, so how the fuck am I supposed to know him?” she
says today of Gambino. “Everybody’s judging me and calling me stupid,
and it’s like” – here comes the heavy Caribbean accent – “ ‘Fuck ya,
leave me alone.' ”
Summing up their lives together, Offset says,
“We work. With a day off, we’ll be in bed all day, just enjoying each
other’s company. It ain’t about going to no movie, no dinner, nothing.
We can go eat McDonald’s or Wendy’s. She might want a chocolate Frosty.”
He adds, “We done so much bizarre shit with each other – rings and cars
and chains. We got that out of the way.”
Offset runs away and Cardi’s back on her phone, handling her
business with her talons and jiggling that leg up and down. If Atlanta
is her new home, she’ll make it work, though she sometimes feels trapped
in the castle, since she doesn’t know how to drive. But “my boo is very
down-South,” and she needs to respect that. Offset doesn’t like the
weather or the pace in New York, and wants to build an empire down here,
not necessarily a Jay-Z-and-Beyoncé-style music empire, but one
primarily made of straight cash. Cardi says they’ll invest in anything
that “makes our money work,” like apps, Subway franchises or nail
salons.
We talk about the news for a while: She’s disgusted by
President Trump and wants her fans to vote in upcoming local elections.
“Every artist has explained how harmful he is,” she says. “He has made
divisions in this country – he almost made a crazy civil war between the
blacks and the whites. He has proven himself to be a madman so many
times, and proven himself to be disrespectful to women, and that still
hasn’t gotten him impeached.” Then she adds, “Clinton got impeached for
cheating on his wife, and it’s so clear that this nigga has sex with so
many porn stars, and he’s just been shown to be a dickhead, and it’s
like, ‘Nope.’”
This leads into a conversation about gun laws,
which Cardi thinks should be stricter and involve mental evaluations,
though she supports the right to bear arms. “God forbid, the government
tries to take us over, and we can’t defend ourselves because we don’t
have no weapons.” She adds, “How do you think American colonizers went
to Africa and it was so easy for them to get those people? Because they
had guns. No matter what weapon you have, you can’t beat a gun.” She
shrugs. “They have weapons like nuclear bombs that we don’t have. So
imagine us not having any weapons at all.”
This is straying far
from baby talk, so we discuss how she’s going to deal with the infant on
her upcoming tour (she will be opening for Bruno Mars for seven weeks
beginning in September). Cardi is not sure about breast-feeding – she
says her breasts are overly sensitive and she can’t imagine how she
would deal with a little baby “milking” them – but she wants her kid to
be with her constantly. “What I envision is my tour bus has my own
personal room, and I just want to be with my baby,” she says. “Only time
I don’t have my baby with me is when I’m getting my hair done, makeup
done, performing.” She adds, dreamily, “I don’t want to miss one second.
I don’t want to miss no smiles, I don’t want to miss no new movement, I
don’t want the baby to confuse me and the babysitter.”
Cardi
wants to be the same woman she is today after giving birth. “Just
because I’m a mom, my street credibility’s not gone, my sex appeal’s not
gone,” she declares. But how will she open her life up on social media,
as she does, with a kid? She’s unsure. “I’m iffy about it,” she says of
showing her kid online. “My feelings get hurt when people online
talking about family members. I think I’ll kill somebody if somebody
talking about my child like that.”
Cardi may not have planned her
baby shower, but she has plans about how she’ll treat her child. Her
mom was too strict, she thinks, and that’s part of why she rebelled.
Cardi and her daughter are going to be best friends. She’s going to
teach her English and Spanish, and wants her to start learning French by
the time she’s four, and she’ll be a little genius. Maybe she’ll take
ballet lessons, though toe shoes can mess up your feet. She’ll
definitely put her in kid boxing lessons. “I don’t want my kid to get
picked on and she don’t know how to defend herself,” says Cardi. “I have
a little brother and I always put in his head, since he was two years
old, ‘Somebody hit you, you kick, you kick, you kick.' ”
And when the baby gets older, Cardi will tell her about her mom’s crazy life. “I’m going to tell her everything. Everything,”
she says, beginning a long soliloquy addressing her unborn child. “You
have a choice. I could maintain you. I could spoil you if you go to
college. Or if you want to be independent, go ahead. When you a teenager
and you 18, 19, you can’t get no job that pays you more than $200 a
week.” Her voice starts to rise. “You want to become a stripper? 'Cause I
became a stripper 'cause I ain’t have no choice. You gonna be getting
your ass smacked by niggas that have less money than you, less of an
education than you, but they going to feel like they better than you
because they feel like you need them. You want to live like that?” She
sits back, satisfied by the rant. “That’s how I’m going to talk to my
kid.”
Soon she pads across the living room in bare feet, making
her way over to a beige chenille couch. Then she lies down on her side
and neatly places a lime-green fleece blanket on top of her small shape.
“I used to tell myself I would buy a house before I turn 25,” she says,
before she dozes off, dreaming a million new dreams.
Twenty-year-old rapper XXXTentacion has been shot in Broward County. His status is uncertain, but witnesses tell TMZ, which first reported the news, that he appeared lifeless and unconscious at the scene.
When asked about the TMZ report, the Broward County Sheriff’s Office told Billboard
they received a call of a shooting in Deerfield Beach, Florida, at 3:57
p.m. ET on Monday (June 18) and that an “adult male victim” was
transported to the hospital from the scene.
The embattled rapper (real name: Jahseh Dwayne Onfroy) – whose rise to rap’s mainstream has been mired in legal trouble,
as he’s facing more than a dozen felony charges and allegations of
domestic violence – was shopping for motorcycles when shots rang out,
TMZ reports. XXXTentacion is currently awaiting trial on the charges.
XXXTentacion recently earned his first No. 1 album on the all-genre Billboard 200 chart with ?, which debuted atop the list dated March 31. The set, which was released on his own Bad Vibes Forever label, gave him a second top 10 set, following 17, which debuted and peaked at No. 2 last year. The same week that ?
opened at No. 1, he notched his first top 10 song on the Billboard Hot
100 with “Sad!,” which has so far peaked at No. 7. Collectively, his
albums have earned 2 million equivalent album units in the U.S.,
according to Nielsen Music, through June 14. In total, his catalog of
songs have tallied 3.96 billion on-demand streams (audio and video
combined).
