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On Thursday (Sep. 4), Cardi B accepted the 2025 Billboard impact of the year award at the R&B \/ Hip-Hop Power Players Event in Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
Presented by the senior director of R&B \/ Hip-Hop, Carl Lamarre, Cardi delivered a rousing speech, highlighting her love for hip-hop and building a long-lasting legacy. \u201cHip-Hop is a feeling. When I was growing up, I didn\u2019t want to be the Shakiras, the J-Los, and the R&B artists; I wanted to be like Trina and Lil Kim. I wanted to be like them.\u201d<\/p>\n
More from Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Cardi\u2019s affinity for the culture continued when she spoke on wanting to fulfill her passions for hip-hop as a child growing up, who was once fearful that she would shatter her dreams living situation.<\/p>\n \u201cI\u2019m just so happy that I\u2019m a part of something that I love. I always dreamed about this career \u2014 I just felt like with the environment that I was in, dreaming was dreaming. Reality crushes your dreams. So I\u2019m happy that my career is the career that I always dreamed of.\u201d<\/p>\n She added, \u201cI want to be spoken about forever. We talk about all these hip-hop artists who came out 20 years ago and 30 years ago, and I want to be a part of that. I don\u2019t want to be a moment. I want to be a legacy so I can die in peace one day and my kids can be like, \u2018That\u2019s my mama.’\u201d<\/p>\n Cardi was one of the handful of artists honored at the 2025 Billboard\u2019s R&B \/ Hip-Hop Power Players Event. Wu-Tang, a legendary hip-hop group, was inducted into Billboard\u2019s Hip-Hop Hall of Fame, while Leon Thomas, a rising star, earned breakthrough artist of the year. Gelo, Odeal, and Ravyn Lanae, promising newcomers, were each named rookie of the year for hip-hop, african music, and R&B, respectively.<\/p>\n Watch Cardi B\u2019s full acceptance speech.<\/p>\n Best of Billboard<\/strong><\/p>\n Sign up for Billboard’s Newsletter<\/a>. For the latest news, follow us on Facebook<\/a>, Twitter<\/a>, and Instagram<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.yahoo.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On Thursday (Sep. 4), Cardi B accepted the 2025 Billboard impact of the year award at the R&B \/ Hip-Hop Power Players Event in Brooklyn. Presented by the senior director of R&B \/ Hip-Hop, Carl Lamarre, Cardi delivered a rousing speech, highlighting her love for hip-hop and building a long-lasting legacy. \u201cHip-Hop is a feeling. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1999715,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25173],"tags":[29110,305552,21944,363151],"class_list":["post-1999714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artists","tag-billboard","tag-cardi-b","tag-hip-hop","tag-lil-kim"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/\u2018I-Want-to-Be-a-Legacy.jpeg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1999714"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1999714\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1999715"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1999714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1999714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1999714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}