The Bite Magazine - Summer 2019 - Issue 25

bite music celeb isn’t the first scandal that has befallen the artist. When her first hit ‘Bodak Yellow’ dropped, fans began to speculate that Cardi might be a member of the Bloods gang. In 2018 she confirmed the speculation to GQ, but said she left when she was 19. It was in 2015 that we first caught sight of Cardi B when she appeared on reality television series Love & Hip Hop: New York . Her rise to stardom was chronicled in the sixth and seventh seasons as well as her turbulent relationship with her incarcerated fiancé, but at the end of 2016, she announced she would be leaving the show to pursue a career in music. In the same year, she had made her musical debut on Shaggy’s remix of his single ‘Boom Boom’, followed by a music video debut on ‘Cheap Ass Weave’, a rendition of ‘Queen’s Speech 4’ by English rapper Lady Leshurr. After leaving the show, the artist released her first full-length mixtape Gangsta B*tch Music, Vol 1 , appeared on the digital cover Vibe magazine’s ‘Viva’ issue and then released the com- pilation Underestimated: The Album , a collaboration between her and other KSR Group artists HoodCelebrityy, SwiftOn-