A biography for Cardi Bhasn’t been written yet.
“If you want it, and the more you keep hearing you can't have it, you just go and get it.”
“I don't feel like anyone should follow what I did.”
“I'm surprised Beyonce liked me. I met Beyonce!”
“When you hear my lyrics, you hear the shots that I throw at people. I throw shots because I always been the underdog. I got rejected so many times, and I say it in my lyrics constantly.”
“I really don't look up to anybody that is doing that great in life, because I don't know their story.”
“I cry sometimes. I get very upset.”
“I have real good parents. They poor. They have regular, poor jobs and what not. They real good people and what not; I was just raised in a bad society.”
“I was always scared to follow my dreams because if I follow my dreams and I fail, I can't dream about it anymore. It's easier to settle for less.”
“I think beautiful is like looking like you take care of yourself.”
“No one calls me Belcalis except for my family, my mother, and my daddy.”
“It's just like, damn - I'm competing with myself.”
“People want me to be so full of shame that I used to dance. I would never be ashamed of it. I made a lot of money. I had a good time, and it showed me a lot.”
“I was a loner; I was never the crazy party girl.”
“I'm so free-spirited. Everyone has a me inside them: that loud girl that just wanna go, 'Ayyyy!' No matter if you a doctor, a lawyer, a teacher, it comes out.”
“What I'm trying to say to girls is don't let these guys be in your head.”
“I'm about this shmoney.”
“To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame? Fame isn't art, but the person you become when you're famous - your alter ego - that's art.”
“I'm on my phone 24-7. I see everything. I hear everything. I am the voice of the streets.”
“I'ma sound like all your favorite rappers.”
“I'm not domestic. I think I will be. I love kids. I really want to have a kid, but I'm not a domestic person.”