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Cardi B shocked many when now President Joe Biden was running to get elected in 2020 when he sat down for a political chat with the WAP star. David Letterman spoke to her in the 4th season of his new show My Next Guest Needs No Introduction where a preview showed him telling her, “I think people in your position have a strength in terms of political activism and changing the world and changing the way people feel and think, not only about themselves, but the problems of the world at large is wonderful.”
“I don’t really put a lot of political things in my music, but I used the f–k out of my platform,” Cardi explained. “And I have used my platform even when I was a dancer. Because you might think that people are not looking, but they are.” She went on to say, I mean, I’m a hood chick, and I’m from the Bronx,” Cardi said. “A lot of people relate to me and follow me because they want to see how I’m dressed, they want to see my lifestyle. I feel like I have a responsibility to also share to them like, ‘Hey, while you here and you’re checking my outfit and checking my music, check out what’s going on over here in this part of the world.’”
In other Cardi news, her new show Cardi Tries shows her expanding her horizons and participating in fields she’s never considered before and using skillsets she likely didn’t think she’d ever tap into. During an Insider interview this week she explained about her favorite episode being one that hadn’t aired yet. It’s titled Cardi Tries Fishing which features her friend Keke Palmer and spoke on an episode in which she tries to prepare and serve sushi.
“It’s funny because one of my favorite ones is the one that I least think that I would ever do again,” she said. “It was very stressful,” she continued. “I was like, ‘Oh my gosh, I can’t believe that waitresses and waiters and everything go through so much.’ It seems easy, that’s an easy job like, ‘Oh, hey. Yeah, just get my food, and blah, blah, blah.’ But it’s actually very fucking difficult to do.”
The experience, Cardi says gave her a new found respect for essential workers as well as how difficult it is working in a restaurant saying, “For example, being a waiter or being a waitress, you don’t really need a degree for it. But it’s actually something that is like, ‘Oh my God, there is so much to do. This is so much stress to your body and such a fast pace,’ that it just makes me tell the whole world, ‘Listen, please tip your waiters and your waitresses and your busboys and shit, because this is a lot.'”
TO her point about her poltical talk, she has a platform and an opinion and she wants to share what she values with the public, that’s up to her. More people should be involed in the political process and the reaction many gave to her doing it was simply uncalled for, to be honest. And as for her show, Cardi Tries, it is a testament to her personality and how much people enjoy seeing her. That’s why her political advocacy matters because it shows she wants to do something productive with her platform and voice, something we should have much more happnening, if you ask us.
