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Cardi B tells Apple Music about \u201cImaginary Playerz\u201d and why she can never get a seat at Carbone ever again:
So last summer, I was big as f**k, I was pregnant with Blossom, and I\u2019m not even gonna lie, I had a whole plan planned out: I\u2019m gonna record all summer so that my album can be out in the beginning of the year. I was in the studio all summer, all locked in for like four days, five days in, sleeping in the studio, wearing motherfuckin\u2019 Target clothes all day, f**king wig coming off and all that sh*t. There was just one day where I had an argument the night before, and then on that day, I was just laying on the studio couch. My engineer, Ed, it was like 1 o\u2019 clock, and Ed\u2019s like, \u2018Come on! Look outside, get up!\u2019 I\u2019m just like, \u2018I\u2019m not in the mood.\u2019 I was really, really sad. I felt sad, I\u2019m big, I\u2019m pregnant, I\u2019m f**ked up, you know, I haven\u2019t gotten my hair done in a minute. He said \u2018Get up! and then he just started playing \u2019Imaginary Players,\u2019 and I just started laughing and smiling. I was like, \u2018This sh*t would be hot if I f**king do this song like my version, like the female version.\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s so funny to me, because growing up in New York, especially having my uncle Jeffrey, he always used to play this song. He was a cute pretty boy, drug dealer boy\u2014they deported his ass\u2014but he went to state, he went to G Dubs, if you from the Heights you should know. This song, when I hear the beat start playing, I don\u2019t know what it is, some music, some songs, I don\u2019t know, it\u2019s so weird to say\u2014it has a feel, but it also got a smell to it. I could really smell summertime, I could really smell my grandma\u2019s block. My mom, she didn\u2019t used to like me hanging out on the block in the Bronx, but my grandma would let me hang out in front of her building. I remember when my uncle Jeffrey used to come around, he lent me three dollars, and he used to play this song a lot. For Ed to randomly play that song, it got me up and lifted me up. And I was like \u2018Yo, it would be funny if I flipped this sh*t.\u2019 So yes, I started working on this song last summer, on my lowest, and this song just got me up, and got me giddied up and stuff. And now when I\u2019m doing it, I\u2019m like, god, I\u2019m a little f**kin\u2019 scared, because it\u2019s like, you never know when big artists or someone who\u2019s a whole billionaire is even listening to your shit. But I was like, hold on: if this record is gonna be cleared, it gotta be cleared by the JAY-Z, so I just started taking my time. I was like, what\u2019s something that\u2019s fire, and every bitch is doing? I was looking at all the scammer bitches from Brooklyn at what the fuck they doing, I was looking at all the fly shit these bitches be doing, and I was also talking about my f**kin\u2019 life, because you bitches\u2014you know what I be hating? I really hate when bitches think they can relate to me. You can\u2019t relate to me, bitch. You can\u2019t. But anyways. I just started taking notes on seeing what\u2019s fly and what\u2019s not. <\/p>\n
\u201cThe only that I really hate about this record is I\u2019m never going to get a seat at Carbone ever again. They never gonna give me a seat, and I\u2019m a little sad about it, but I took that risk. Because I really wanted to shit, but like, I really hate that I had to sh*t on one of my favorite restaurants, so no more rigatoni for me or branzino. So anyways. I\u2019m very, very, very thankful that JAY-Z cleared it. I know the risk that I was gonna take, and I know the risk that it was going to be for this song to be out, because I know y\u2019all was gonna critique it, but it\u2019s like, y\u2019all gonna critique anything I do.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardi B tells Apple Music what summertime feels like to her
\u201cHonest truth: What I envision in my head for summertime, it never goes for me. Last year, summertime, I wanted to go out, be with my friends, I thought my album was gonna come out, but it\u2019s like, I didn\u2019t finish my album, I was very depressed in the beginning of the year. So summertime never look like what I expect it to be. This year, I haven\u2019t been able to get in the pool because I been working so hard! I can\u2019t even dip my feet in the pool. But summertime to me is being in my house and my pool, going outside, being sluts with my friends, drinking and all that stuff. So that\u2019s what summertime give to me: being on the block. This July 4th, I was overseas, but usually on July 4th I love going to the Bronx and sh*t, and seeing the fireworks in the Bronx, and chilling with my n***s and my bitches. That\u2019s what summertime gives to me, but unfortunately, work is like, artist life.\u201d<\/p>\n
Cardi B picks songs for every mood\u2026<\/p>\n
Kehlani\u2019s \u201cFold That\u201d: This song right here, I picked it, it\u2019s the type of song\u2014you ever haven\u2019t talked to your man for five days? The first two days of you not talking to your man, it\u2019s like, aight, you angry. Then the third day it\u2019s like, you kind of get it over with. And then the fourth day, you horny. Like, oh my gosh, I wanna f**k him right now. But it\u2019s like nah, f**k him\u2014not literally f**k him, but f**k him. That\u2019s what you wanna do. But this song right here is from Kehlani ,\u201cFold That.\u201d Fold me up, motherf**ker! Split me in fuckin\u2019 4, 5, 6! Put me in 7 different positions! Put me in the corner of the motherf**kin\u2019 bed! Put me everywhere! Fold me up!\u201d<\/p>\n
On Summer Walker\u2019s \u201cKarma\u201d: The next mood is when you want a man car to crash. You know what, sometimes, you gotta give it to God. The next song right here is when you in that mood. You could be petty. You know you got the power to be petty. You know you got the power to be a bitch. You know you got the power to get a n***a beat up. You know you got the power to break a n***a crib up. You know you got the power to expose a n***a. But you know what? Sometimes you just need to shut the fuck up and let karma deal with them.\u201c<\/p>\n
On Selena Gomez & benny blanco\u2019s \u201cOjos Tristes\u201d: \u201cI grew up listening to the original song of this record [Jeanette\u2019s 1981 single \u201dOjos Tristes\u201c]. I really, really love, she\u2019s one of my favorite artists, the original record, so I was surprised that Selena Gomez even know this song, but she do, and she actually killed it, and she sounds so pretty. This song is, I\u2019m pretty sure it\u2019s from the \u201870s.\u201d<\/p>\n
On Lady Lava\u2019s \u201cRing Finger\u201d: \u201cI wanna say happy birthday Lady Lava. I know she\u2019s in New York so I just might go to her party. This song right here, I\u2019m sure I\u2019m outside with my girls this summer, you don\u2019t have a ring, you don\u2019t have a mister, if you don\u2019t have a fuckin\u2019 ring, you don\u2019t have a mister. Don\u2019t be like, \u201cI\u2019m not going outside, my man\u2014\u201d stop that shit! This is the song. She\u2019s Lady Lava, she\u2019s really one of my favorite artists right now. I love her. I might go see her this Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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