2019 has been a pretty successful year for Cardi B. In February, Cardi won a Grammy Award for “Best Rap Album,” and as of Thursday (April 26), the Bronx native was awarded Crossover Artist of the year at the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
The 26-year-old won over Demi Lovato, DJ Snake and Drake in the category. Cardi’s been featured on some of the hottest Latin records that have ruled both 2018 and 2019. She has her hit song “I Like It” with Bad Bunny and J. Balvin, and she’s featured in the tracks “Taki Taki” and “La Modelo” as well.
Cardi’s win makes her the first female rapper to ever win a Billboard Latin Music Award. The MC took to her Instagram stories to thank the publication for the award, a move that comes after a recent squabble she had with gossip page “The Shade Room.”
On Wednesday, in a series of now-deleted Instagram videos, Cardi slammed the gossip page for posts she felt harmed her husband Offset’s image. In the video, Cardi called out TSR for allegedly only sharing negative news about her label mates at Quality Management, rather than uplifting them and the rest of the black community.
“Everybody that they know that I’m cool with, they always try to get them set up for people to talk sh*t,” she said. “Offset donated 25K to the Ellen foundation for the kids in Africa. Did The Shade Room post it? No… are they posting any positive sh*t and investment talk that he’s been talking about in his interviews? No. But they sure post the way he had drama with his baby mom. They sure posting about his court cases, right?”
Congrats to Cardi on her win. See the complete winners list over on Billboard.com.
