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Cardi B Just Accomplished Something Not Even Beyoncé Has Done

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Cardi B Just Accomplished Something Not Even Beyoncé Has Done

Cardi B accomplished something this week that no other woman- not even Beyonce- has ever done: She currently has five hits in the top 10 on the Billboard Hot R&B/ Hip-Hop Songs chart at once.

As Billboard notes, Cardi B is only the third artist to accomplish this; both Drake and Kendrick Lamar have done it before. What makes this even more special is that Cardi is the first person to do with her five chart entries.

I know my co-workers, my friends and everyone else around me is tired of hearing me talk about Cardi B. Last week or the week before, I pitched a post I wanted to write about Cardi B to my editor, Yesha Callahan and your mama was dead-add like, “No.” So imagine the joy that went through my body when Corey Townsend, our weekend social editor, posted this news in Slack.

I legit typed in all caps: “ME. I WANT TO WRITE THIS. CARDI B IS MY PRESIDENT.”

And so now I get to write the post that I pitched in the first place but Yesha …

 

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