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I just want to go home to my kids. I get it. Get it. This is crazy.
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Hey, what's going on everybody?
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For First We Feast, I'm Sean Evans and you're watching Hot Ones.
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It's the show with hot questions and even hotter wings.
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And today we're joined by Cardi B.
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She's a Grammy Award-winning artist with more number one singles than any other woman in hip-hop history and she has yet another record climbing the charts as we speak.
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It's called Bongos alongside Megan Thee Stallion as to be expected an immaculate music video to match. Check it out.
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But first, Cardi B, welcome to the show. Hey.
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What's going through your head as you prepare to take on the gauntlet? Are you nervous at all?
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Are you naturally a hot sauce person?
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I'm I'm nervous because it's like I'm setting myself up to have diarrhea.
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So it's like I like know what's going to happen like later on.
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But this is worth This is worth it, though.
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It's worth it because I'm telling you like my fans been begging me to do this show for so so so so long.
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I have to give it to them and I'm so scared. Oh my gosh. Ooh. Hello. Okay. She's cute. Mhm. She's cute. I like her. I like her.
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So let me congratulate you on a flawless rollout for Bongos.
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Great song, aced the video, bodied the performance at the VMAs earlier this week.
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And I know that you're very picky about the beats that you choose to work with.
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Do you remember your initial reaction to hearing that dembow style bongos beat for the first time?
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Like did you immediately recognize its potential to be a hit?
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Um I don't I don't know if I like realized it was like a potential to be a hit.
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I just as soon as I heard it was like "Hey, hey." Hey, like a drum.
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I I automatically liked it and and um even with my mans, right?
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Like even with my husband like like you know I'll be I'll be playing him like not every day but like it's like you know we go to the studio a lot so it's like "Oh, what you've been working on?
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What you've been playing on?"
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And then he heard the song he's like "Oh, this is fire."
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And then I was really impressed with the hairy read headpieces and their ability to hold their position, you know, even in the face of such intense choreography.
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What were the conversations like surrounding hats for the music video?
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Bongos like it just has a theme like you could just hear tropical music, beach, pool party.
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So it's like how can we make beach luxurious?
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And that's exactly what we do, honey.
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That's what we do and like nothing more luxurious than hats and big feathers and big everything everything grand. I love big. I'm extra. I'm a Libra. I want to smell it. Angry goat bell pepper. This is shishito.
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Shishito Oh, and I like shishito pepper. You do?
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Yeah, I eat it at Nobu all the time. I like Okay. Okay, let's try it.
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I could I could taste the shishito. Mhm.
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Little garlic trailing a little bit. Mhm. She's not spicy. So far. You're good. Don't worry. You're on top of it. Mhm. Shishito wings. Wow, creative. Working for you. I like it.
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So get up 10 from Invasion of is in my opinion like a top-tier kicking off the album pure bar kind of song. Mhm.
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What in your mind is the aim or goal of just a great album intro song? He's a scammer.
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Yeah, you never really know with the shishito peppers.
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You know, when you eat them like they can all be like one out of 10 of them kicks, you know?
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Yeah, he's a little scammer because he wasn't spicy.
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Now all of a sudden I feel a little Something. tingle in my mouth. Yeah.
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So, um a lot of people tell me that I should put my pain, my struggle in my music.
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A lot of my pains and a lot of my struggles or whatever the crap is going on, I feel like the the masses might not be able to relate.
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You know what I'm saying?
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Like the like the masses might not be able to relate.
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Like it's like, "Oh my gosh, they're tearing a new [ __ ] on Twitter on me because I said this this and that."
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The average person is like, "Girl, shut up.
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I got I got to work up at 7:00 in the morning.
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I got to do this this and that."
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So, is that I don't really like to make music like I would normally do a intro.
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Like I would just literally like to make my intro of everything I'll addressing all the [ __ ] addressing the [ __ ] addressing the [ __ ] that I got to go through, and then and then just the whole album just be about fun cuz I like fun.
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You know what I'm saying? I like fun.
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So, I think the first like my intro I feel like it's it should be like just me popping my [ __ ] popping my [ __ ] and after that I let's pop some pus.
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Pop my [ __ ] and then pop some pus.
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Passion fruit is one of my favorite fruits.
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I feel like we're kind of on your palate a little bit. She's cute.
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Shishito, passion fruit, there we go.
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That's what I was hoping for. She's a little cute. There we go.
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Yeah, y'all y'all y'all little dry with the sauce now.
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I see no reason to be nervous, Cardi. You had this all along.
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No, I've seen I've seen some clips. I've seen some clips.
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How would you describe the aesthetic appeal of Thierry Mugler to somebody who wouldn't know the difference between Tom Brady and Tom Ford?
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He's just really one of my favorite favorite favorite designers and this is like it's it's a dream like All right, so like a couple of months ago I saw like a piece a a vintage piece that I wore.
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But I'm like scrolling through Instagram and I see it I'm seeing it and I'm like, "Wow, I already had that on my body."
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And I started like tearing because I was like it's just like such a such a proud moment that out of anybody in the world he picked me and he trusted me to put on a a museum piece.
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That means everything to me and I'm just so happy that I met him.
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He was so amazing to me and I cannot Those are the type of things that is like when I'm old older and I have my own grandkids be like, "Yeah, cuz Yeah, cuz you know Thierry Mugler? Oh, he Yeah, he big.
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He had me with his [ __ ] When I wore that thing to grab me, [ __ ] was shook.
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Yeah, cuz I was a bad [ __ ] I was a bad [ __ ] Ooh, this is a This ain't a good interview.
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Oh, I could I could smell it though.
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I could smell the Damn, I could smell everything. Okay, okay, okay.
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What's it like to record a clean for radio version of a Cardi song like So annoying.
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Like how upset How cuz I cuz I just did it like practically 2 weeks ago and I was like so over it because it's like it's like you know like my new song I'll be like, "Nigga, eat this ass like a plum."
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Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
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So like you know I'm doing the the version and it's like, "All right, baby, eat it up like a plum.
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And it's like, no, it's still you still can't play that for a pop radio or whatever.
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And I'm like, baby, eat these peaches and plums. And I was so over it.
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Like, it's like, I'm like trying to look up like cuz I cannot say that.
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Like, that is that sounds so corny.
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Like, that sounds like a Kidz Bop whatever myself. But, I had no choice.
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So, baby, eat these Eat baby, eat these peaches and plums.
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I've been looking at this. It's like, what is this?
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This look like very interesting. Okay, let's try it. What is this, honey?
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Oh, [ __ ] No, this is the first kind of jump, I feel like, in the That was a little jump. Mhm. I agree with you. Yeah.
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Why you talking about like I agree with you like you didn't know that this was GOING TO HAPPEN?
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SO, I COULDN'T help but to notice that in your 73 questions interview with Vogue, you said that you wish people would ask you about current events more.
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So, it seems like not a week goes by that I don't see, you know, a whistleblower testifying about alien extraterrestrial material or UFOs and government cover-ups.
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Where are you on that whole thing?
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Like, do you have any thoughts on aliens and the possibility that they visited Earth?
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I don't believe that aliens are real.
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I really don't believe that aliens are real because it's like, okay, so if aliens are real, and they're smarter than us, right?
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I feel like it's like, why they just haven't invaded us?
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So, aliens, if they smart, they know how humans are.
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Humans are like despicable.
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They want to take over everything.
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They just want to have power over everything.
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And then people be like, "But why would aliens would want to invade Earth? Earth is ghetto.
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They probably They probably They probably like so advanced.
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Like they probably don't They probably think that that Earth is like a small fry."
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And it's like it's not about that. Right. It's the art of war. I'm following.
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That all makes sense to me.
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So it's like if they're so smart, like people think that they are, they would have been invading us just so they could just have us and not I just know that they ain't real. I don't care. I don't care. This sounds good. Whiskey smoke ghost? Yes, it sounds good. Mhm. You're pondering.
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I see some pondering going on.
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A little kind of a sharp hit, yeah. Yeah.
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Oh, [ __ ] you caught me. Cuz she's good. Mhm. No, wait. Don't touch me. Oh, she's back. Oh. Oh my god.
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Kind of like the taste, but the trail it leaves behind.
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Some violence in the trail that is left behind, yeah. violence behind. Oh my gosh.
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So as we celebrate hip-hop 50, there are now so many different archetypes for what a legacy rap act can look like from Queen Latifah to Jay-Z, Missy Elliott to Nas.
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When you look into the crystal ball and see Cardi B in the year 2043, are there any artists, anybody that you look to as a role model for how you might want to age or mature as an artist?
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Who I look up to, it would be like Jay-Z, Rihanna, because I just feel like they're they're like super moguls.
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And I feel like I feel like my my tongue is drunk.
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Like I feel like my tongue is drunk.
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Like it's like I'm trying to say something and it's like I can't even focus on the [ __ ] question because it's like blah That's the show. That's the show. For better or worse.
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It's like what the [ __ ] you asking me? My mouth is hurting.
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On that note, are you ready to move on to sauce seven?
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This one kind of looks gross.
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So I kind of wonder A tropic star here in the seventh spot. Oh, she's not gross. A suspicious look. Cuz I know she's coming.
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Yep, I knew she was coming. Yeah, yeah. Mhm. Ooh, but she's good. I'm torturing myself. Okay. Ooh. With the milk.
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This is how all worth it, yeah.
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This is how I imagine my breast milk to taste like.
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So as a rap fan, I've always been appreciative of a good esoteric sports reference.
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Like when you did that nod to WWF Hall of Famer Jimmy Snuka and the off the top rope superfly [ __ ] When you work in a reference like that, is that like a salute to the person or is it more about, you know, finding a name that fits a particular rhyme scheme or metaphor?
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I really wanted to say Triple H, but it didn't rhyme. It didn't rhyme.
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So I just said Jimmy Snuka.
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So it was like So that worked in the So it's kind of a little bit of both then.
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Yeah, cuz I was picturing like like on I like on top like jumping like a wrestler.
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Like yeah, but I really wanted to say Triple H, but it's like that wouldn't even rhyme.
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Like it's not even going with this flow or anything.
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So I just said Jimmy Snuka off the top rope superfly [ __ ] And then as a wrestling fan, do you have an idea of like what like the wrestling the WrestleMania fit for Cardi B would be? Very skimpy.
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But, I got I feel like I feel like my my entrance have to be like grand. Like, what's her name?
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Her name was Melina, right? Melita or Melina?
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Do you remember her that she used to like walk in with two guys and then like she would do like a whole split on the ropes?
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She would like enter like on a split.
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Like, I have to like enter like grand like that.
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She was just crazy with her.
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I'm telling you, she looked like a poison from SpongeBob. Splitting that open. Oh. Oh, she stinks. Oh my god. Oh my god, I'm scared. I'm scared.
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I knew that that would go that way.
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Never gets any easier for me, either, by the way. I'm scared. I'm scared. We're doing laps. I'm scared. Let it out. Okay, what can I do? Whatever you got to do. Whatever you got to do.
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Do you have a lasting memory from taking David Letterman to get a chopped cheese sandwich?
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You know, as a fan of both Dave and New York's greatest sandwich, it was quite the cultural moment to witness.
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Okay, when does it leave All right.
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When does it leave my tongue?
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So, it's going to kind of be like this.
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We're going to kind of be in this hot tub, I think, for a little bit. I know. I know. The body still on top. Still on top. Going for the lifelines.
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When does it stop burning? WHEN DOES IT STOP?
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IS THAT THE spiciest thing you've ever eaten?
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Oh my gosh, when does it stop? It doesn't stop. Doesn't stop. We got some ice cream. You want some ice cream?
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Oh my gosh, like all right, so This should help. This should help. Okay, I see it.
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Oh my god All right, okay, I got to get I got to call my composure.
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What what you was asking me?
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Oh, about uh taking David Letterman to get a chopped cheese sandwich.
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You know, did you have a lasting memory from that?
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Kind of an amazing cultural moment to witness.
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I that wasn't even like my favorite part.
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I don't really care about that part.
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What stays in my mind for a long time is that I went to FDR's house.
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If anybody knows me, knows me, I love FDR. FDR?
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Yes, and I love Eleanor Roosevelt.
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And you know how he got us through the Great Depression. And won the war. Mhm.
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Only president to get elected four times while he's in a wheelchair.
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As I grew up reading a lot about Eleanor Roosevelt, she had a very sad life.
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And like when I went to her her house, well, she she had different house from her from her husband because, you know, um FDR's mama, she was always around.
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Like and she didn't really like that.
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Like Eleanor wanted her space.
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Just like me, I want my own space all the time.
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I saw the room where Churchill and FDR was talking about the nuke. That is crazy to me.
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Like like I'm really here.
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Like I like I don't know why I'm obsessed with war.
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I don't know what I could hear with the aliens.
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You know I'm obsessed with World War like I love World War like you know I like reading about that.
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But World War II, I'm obsessed with just learning everything about it.
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So, for me to be in the same room that Churchill and FDR was discussing the nuke is like it was just such a moment for me.
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Like y'all probably think I'm crazy but like it was just like I love this. I just I don't know. I don't know.
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Oh my god, my mouth is not burning anymore.
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You know that's all it took.
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You just had to walk down and you know do a historical re-envisioning of FDR, you know? Yeah.
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That's all it took all along.
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We just had to talk some American history.
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This ice cream is made by the best cow. I don't want no more.
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Nothing fun but after the last one kind of like kind of clears everything out the pain a little bit, right? Sure. Is it rap mom?
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Is there a children's book that stands out to you for having like the hardest bars?
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Like is it Llama Llama Red Pajama? Ah. I I I love that book.
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Every single time that I think about that book I I could only I could only picture my head when like the Migos was doing it.
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I love I love good memories.
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I love having good memories of them in my head. I'm dying. Yeah, I'm dying. I know. Wait. How is this one?
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So, this is the last dab.
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We call it the last dab cuz it's traditional to put a little extra on the last one.
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You don't have to if you don't want to, by the way.
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Let me use yours cuz mine's is closed. Sure. I'd be honored. Here you go, Cardi. Here you go, Cardi. Oh my gosh.
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Well, it's like you have just tweezers. It's amazing. Mhm. The face says it all. That's all. You know what?
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Cardi, that is that is good. That is good.
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And the wings of death, they're behind us, okay? The eating is all over. I get it. I get it. I get it.
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What does it It's not even about the spiciness.
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It's just like the taste of it.
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It just tastes like Hard, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It's big.
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So, to close things out, I love this quote of yours in a 2017 interview that you did with Elle reacting to Andy Warhol's quote about fame being art, you said, "To me, music is art and fashion is art, but fame, fame is an art.
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But the person you become when you're famous, your alter ego, that's art."
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How do you think about the connection between who you are in and out of the spotlight?
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You know, cuz I'm a person.
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I still get I get panic attacks, you know what I'm saying? Yeah.
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So, it's like you know, like like if something's really spicy, I feel like I can breathe.
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Oh, [ __ ] Why the more I more I talk the What the [ __ ] The more I talk I feel like it's burning my mouth.
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I just want to go home to my kids. I get it. I get it. This is crazy.
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I mean, ain't no real difference between Belcalis and Cardi B.
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They both some sensitive ass [ __ ] Um [ __ ] I can't even Okay, focus. That's all right. My legs shaking.
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That's all right, cuz Cardi, you gave it your all today and it was so much more than we deserved.
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And now, all All left to do is roll out the red carpet for you, Cardi B.
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This camera, this camera, this camera, let the people know what you have going on in your life. Woo!
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Um I'm just happy that I'm I'm just happy that I'm going to make my fans happy.
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Ah, at the expense of my pain. But I had a good time.
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And your questions were so amazing and different cuz I hate when people ask me the same [ __ ] You know what I'm saying? Like I appreciate it.
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But I like I mean, who don't love ice cream? Oh!
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What I think I LIKE THE BEST THIS IS CRAZY. Oh my god. This is torture.
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From here, do you think you'll be more of a hot sauce person or less of a hot sauce person?
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I don't I don't want to see buffalo wings for [ __ ] two years. fair. I think THAT'S FAIR. AH!
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