Cardi B has been promoting her new song WAP by releasing some merchandise!
The rapper and Megan Thee Stallion left the world shook after the release of their explicit new song WAP, and now Cardi is asking her fans to open their wallets for some water-themed merch, which includes umbrellas, raincoats and spandex bras.
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The Bodak Yellow singer is also offering up a sports bra and biker shorts set, featuring airbrush-style writing, as well as a sweater, cropped t-shirts and more.
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This comes after Cardi B poked fun at conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, after he expressed outrage over her and Megan Thee Stallion's new single, WAP.
WAP, which stands for "wet a** p***y", has incited quite the furore on social media thanks to its explicit lyrics, and Shapiro is the latest right-wing figure to condemn the track for its apparent "vulgarity".
Shapiro, who is the co-founder of the conservative opinion website, The Daily Wire, took to his podcast to recite lyrics from the song. He then explained that WAP means "Wet a** p-word, p-word is female genitalia. And it gets significantly, significantly more vulgar, like a lot more vulgar".
"This is what feminists fought for," the 36-year-old continued. "This is what the feminist movement was all about, and if you say anything differently it’s ’cause you’re a misogynist, see?"
After clips from his podcast began making the rounds on social media, and attracting ridicule, Shapiro took to Twitter to write:
"Listen, guys. I fully explained on the show that it’s misogynistic to question whether graphic descriptions of “wet-a** p****” is empowering for women. “WAP” is obviously an incredibly profound statement of women’s empowerment, a la Susan B. Anthony. As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a “bucket and a mop” — get the medical care they require. My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."
Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, has now acknowledged Shapiro's sentiments in the best possible way.
The rapper shared a number of tweets mocking Shapiro. She retweeted an image of The Simpsons character, Waylon Smithers, covering his eyes and half-naked women dance in front of him.
She also tweeted, "I can’t believe conservatives soo mad about WAP."
Cardi B has poked fun at conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro, after he expressed outrage over her and Megan Thee Stallion's new single, WAP.
WAP, which stands for "wet a** p***y", has incited quite the furore on social media thanks to its explicit lyrics, and Shapiro is the latest right-wing figure to condemn the track for its apparent "vulgarity".
Shapiro, who is the co-founder of the conservative opinion website, The Daily Wire, took to his podcast to recite lyrics from the song. He then explained that WAP means "Wet a** p-word, p-word is female genitalia. And it gets significantly, significantly more vulgar, like a lot more vulgar".
"This is what feminists fought for," the 36-year-old continued. "This is what the feminist movement was all about, and if you say anything differently it’s ’cause you’re a misogynist, see?"
After clips from his podcast began making the rounds on social media, and attracting ridicule, Shapiro took to Twitter to write:
"Listen, guys. I fully explained on the show that it’s misogynistic to question whether graphic descriptions of “wet-a** p****” is empowering for women. “WAP” is obviously an incredibly profound statement of women’s empowerment, a la Susan B. Anthony. As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a “bucket and a mop” — get the medical care they require. My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."
Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, has now acknowledged Shapiro's sentiments in the best possible way.
The rapper shared a number of tweets mocking Shapiro. She retweeted an image of The Simpsons character, Waylon Smithers, covering his eyes and half-naked women dance in front of him.
She also tweeted, "I can’t believe conservatives soo mad about WAP."
Love it or loathe it, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's WAP is one of the most memorable songs of 2020, shooting to the number one spot in both the UK and the US.
Now, the rapper has allegedly filed a WAP trademark for a new line of merchandise, NME reports, having already released a number of waterproof WAP items.
According to TMZ, Cardi B is now planning to sell WAP-titled alcoholic and soft drinks.
The news outlet has reported that the rapper also plans to put the WAP logo on clothing, headwear, footwear, athletic bags, purses, and jewelry.
The trademark has reportedly also been applied for use on marketing spirits, beer, sports drinks, soft drinks, fruit juices, mineral water, and more.
These items could be added to the merchandise that is already available on Cardi B's WapStore.
The water-themed merchandise currently includes umbrellas, raincoats, and spandex bras, along with a biker shorts set, a sweater, cropped t-shirts, and more.
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The WAP raincoat which is currently retailing for $125 (£95) is available in black, purple, or white and has the ‘WAP’ slogan across the front along with an XXX and 18+ warning on each arm.
Meanwhile, the WAP umbrella, available in black or purple, retails for $25 (£19).
News of the trademark comes after a tumultuous time in the rapper's personal life, having recently filed for divorce from her husband Offset.
However, the rapper recently revealed that she has 'not shed not one tear' since filing for divorce.
In an extended video posted to her 75 million Instagram followers, the “WAP” singer revealed how, though she was grateful for the outpouring of support she had received from fans, she was in a good place following the split.
The rapper also went into greater detail than ever before on the reasons behind the couple’s split, refuting claims that Offset was expecting a child with another woman. As Cardi put it:
"This time, I wasn't crying. Wanna know why? The reason my divorce is not because of none of that s— that ever happened before. It's not because [of] the cheating."
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"I'm seeing people [saying] 'Oh, he has a baby on the way.' That's a whole f****** complete lie. No, that's bull****.
"I just got tired of f****** arguing. I got tired of not seeing things eye to eye. When you feel like it's not the same anymore, before you actually get cheated on, I rather just be... you know what I'm saying? Like, I'm tired of people."
"I don't do stunts. I don't need stunts and I don't need any stunts that comes to family to sell anything. I don't understand why people want [the] reason for the divorce to be something so, so bad.
"Nothing crazy out of this world happened. Sometimes people really do f****** grow apart. I've been with this man for four years. I have a kid with this man.
"You just get tired of the arguments and the buildup. You get tired sometimes. And before something bad happens, before you get left, before you get cheated on, you sometimes you just want to leave. What is so bad about that?"
The couple share a two-year-old daughter, Kulture Kiari and were together on and off since 2017.
"There’s some? wh*res? in this house? / I said certified freak, seven? days a week / Wet a** p***y, make that pullout game weak, woo."
After Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion's 'WAP (Wet A** P***y)' dropped last Friday, conservative pundit Ben Shapiro, was quick to issue comment on the black-women led production. "It gets really, really, really vulgar," he said on his eponymous show, which aired on the August 10.
What followed was nothing short of cringe-induing. He recited the song's NSFW lyrics, while the music video played in the background - taking care to replace "p***y" with the "p-word" - as if uttering a popular term for the female genitalia was powerful enough to align him with libertarian values. It was painful to watch, entirely memeable, and, naturally, it went viral.
Shapiro didn't stop there. He proceeded to mansplain a reductive, tokenistic view of feminism - and went so far to implicate himself in giving his wife an STD, by quoting her "doctor" diagnosis that having a "wet a** p***y" could mean you have "bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis [sic]."
"This is what feminists fought for," the 36-year-old said. "This is what the feminist movement was all about, and if you say anything differently it’s ’cause you’re a misogynist, see?"
After clips from his podcast began making the rounds on social media and attracting ridicule, Shapiro took to Twitter to clarify:
"Listen, guys. I fully explained on the show that it’s misogynistic to question whether graphic descriptions of “wet-a** p****” is empowering for women.
"'WAP' is obviously an incredibly profound statement of women’s empowerment, a la Susan B. Anthony. As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a 'bucket and a mop' — get the medical care they require. My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."
And so, the public humiliation of Ben Shapiro was complete.
Of course, being the subject of mockery has been Shapiro's calling card since he became the youngest nationally syndicated columnist in the United States at the age of 17 (at the time of writing, he has 7 million followers on Facebook and 3 million on Twitter, respectively), but his views are representative of the larger backlash the track has received.
The most vocal proponents of the criticism surrounding 'WAP' are, like Shapiro, right-leaning, male, and, white.
It's to be expected; two women, black to boot, who openly celebrate female sexuality, and describe the female genitalia in candid detail - bodily functions and all - would inspire repugnance in such a demographic.
Shapiro giving his unsolicited opinion on a rap track is a savvy career move.
The clip of him reciting the track's lyrics has launched countless memes, and currently has 6.3 million views on Twitter. Consequently, the outrage that Cardi B and Megan's track incited has eclipsed the fact that the music video garnered 26 million views on YouTube in its first day, thereby breaking the record for the biggest 24-hour debut for an all-female collaboration on the platform.
But it's not just the likes of Shapiro that took umbrage with WAP. In a recent interview with Far Out Magazine, CeeLo Green, an African-American rapper, namechecked Cardi B and Nicki Minaj as releasing music that is "very unfortunate and disappointing on a personal and moral level".
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"There was once a time when we were savvy enough to code certain things. We could express to those it was meant for with the style of language we used. But now music is shameless, it is sheer savagery. There should be a time and a place for adult content," Green said, adding: "You have the ‘Heads of State,’ like Nicki Minaj or someone who is up there in accolade: success, visibility, a platform to influence. Nicki could be effective in so many other constructive ways, but it feels desperate."
In the interview, Green only references female rappers; thus equating their sexually explicit lyrics to the "shameless" state of the music industry.
Speaking on 'WAP', Green continued: "Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion, they are all more or less doing similar salacious gesturing to kinda get into position. I get it, the independent woman and being in control, the divine femininity and sexual expression. I get it all." He then asks, "It comes at what cost?"
The irony doesn't go unnoticed. It was Green, of course, who glorified violence against women in Gnarls Barkley's 'Necromancer'. In it, he raps, "It’s naughty, very naughty necrophilia / Without a care I’m compassionate about killing her / I’d have my way with what’s left of the will of her / Cosmopolitans, and cocaine, and an occasional pill in her / When she spoke I saw a spark, but it was dark so / I drove her home when she died, sexy suicide."
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While black male rappers have long incited criticism for their use of sexually explicit lyrics, it's hard to remember a time in recent years that one particular individual has been called out in the way that Cardi B and Megan have.
A 2012 Billboard article features the subheading: "The 10 hip-hop stars with the filthiest lyrics, from Lil Wayne to Akinyele to Plies, all for your nasty listening pleasure." The artists referenced are all male, and their graphic lines don't seem to render them "shameless", rather, it's the very "filthy" nature of their content that makes their music worth listening to.
Ultimately, men are able to rap about women's p******s, but those who possess them cannot.
A prime example is Lil Wayne's 2008 track, P***y Monster, in which he spits the bars: "When I lift my top lip I can still smell you / When I swallow my spit I can still taste you / Put that p***y in my face you / It goes P-*-*-*-Y because / It's the reason I am alive / Mama I need just to survive / It's like I got to eat to stay alive."
We are still uncomfortable with women expressing their sexuality, and we're even more squeamish when it comes to talking about their reproductive biology.
In popular culture, the vulva is only depicted as a flower or an aesthetically pleasing segment of fruit - tampon commercials remain clinical in their failure to depict menstrual blood - and so we infer that vaginas are something to silently possess, not something to talk about openly - whether they be dry, damp, or "wet".
Following the release of her number one single, 'WAP', with Meghan Thee Stallion, Cardi B is now launching an OnlyFans account.
Over the past week, Cardi B - whose real name is Belcalis Almánzar - has been teasing a partnership with OnlyFans. On Twitter, she said that she would use the subscription-based platform to share behind-the-scenes content, and address any rumors about her.
In a now-deleted tweet, Cardi said: "Everytime some1 start a rumor I will be addressing it there. What else should I post besides rumors and behind the scenes? Maybe a video of me cleaning my home with my nails? [sic]"
Now, the rapper has officially unveiled her new account.
Per Dazed, a press release confirms that the mother-of-one's account will be used to "release behind-the-scenes content, address ongoing rumors, share glimpses into her personal life, connect closer with her fans," and more.
OnlyFans is a subscription-based service, which was launched back in 2016, to allow people to sell content on their own terms for a fee. While the platform has come to be associated with sex workers, everyone from chefs and musicians are able to share their artistry on the platform.
This comes after Cardi hit back at conservative pundit, Ben Shapiro after he criticized WAP's "vulgar" lyrics.
Shapiro, who is the co-founder of the conservative opinion website, The Daily Wire, took to his podcast to recite lyrics from the song. He then explained that "WAP" means "Wet a** p-word, p-word is female genitalia. And it gets significantly, significantly more vulgar, like a lot more vulgar".
"This is what feminists fought for," the 36-year-old continued. "This is what the feminist movement was all about, and if you say anything differently it’s ’cause you’re a misogynist, see?"
After clips from his podcast began making the rounds on social media, and attracting ridicule, Shapiro took to Twitter to write:
"Listen, guys. I fully explained on the show that it’s misogynistic to question whether graphic descriptions of 'wet-a** p****' is empowering for women. 'WAP' is obviously an incredibly profound statement of women’s empowerment, a la Susan B. Anthony.
"As I also discussed on the show, my only real concern is that the women involved — who apparently require a 'bucket and a mop' — get the medical care they require. My doctor wife’s differential diagnosis: bacterial vaginosis, yeast infection, or trichomonis."
Cardi has now acknowledged Shapiro's sentiments in the best possible way.
The rapper shared a number of tweets mocking Shapiro. She retweeted an image of The Simpsons character, Waylon Smithers, covering his eyes and half-naked women dance in front of him.
In case you're one of the three people that may have missed it, last month, Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion dropped their latest track 'WAP' - and it immediately started hitting headlines and shattering records.
And the single has become a rather unexpected icon in popular culture, with Cardi B releasing a range of 'WAP' merchandise (waterproofs, of course) and the 'WAP Challenge' taking over social media - which sees people attempting to recreate the sexy moves from Cardi B's music video... with varying results.
However, the 'WAP' Challenge can step aside, because a sign language expert by the name of Libbey has come along with the most unique and surprisingly raunchy adaptation of 'WAP' yet.
Libbey Ketterer - who runs the YouTube channel The Daily Sign - recently uploaded a video of her interpretation of 'WAP', signing the entire track and all it's x-rated lyrics in American Sign Language (ASL).
You can check out Libbey's interpretation below (expect strong language):
The 22-year-old from Ohio currently boasts over 529,000 subscribers on YouTube, with the talented ALS experts sharing her interpretations of songs like 'Bad Guy' by Billie Eilish, as well as useful tips and lessons in sign language.
This Tiktokker combined Taylor Swift and Cardi B for the best 'WAP' Challenge yet):
As well as being an incredible statement of female sexual empowerment, the music video broke the record for the biggest 24-hour debut for an all-female collaboration on YouTube, amassing over 187 million views on the site (as of this writing).
In addition, the single debuted at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 - giving Cardi B her fourth number-one single in the US - further extending her record as the female rapper with the most number-one singles in Hot 100 history.
Now, who is up for starting a petition getting Cardi B to hire Libbey as her official on-stage interpreter?
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