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  • -My first guest tonight is one of the biggest names in music.

  • She is a Grammy winner who's had four number-one songs

  • on the Billboard Hot 100.

  • Her latest single, "Up," has already gone up

  • to number one on Apple Music and iTunes.

  • Here is the one and only Cardi B!

  • -Whoo-hoo-hoo!

  • -It is so good to see you. You look fantastic.

  • -Thank you. -The last time

  • I think we were here together, we co-hosted the show.

  • And you had baby -- you were still pregnant with baby,

  • and now you have a little 1 1/2-year-old running around.

  • -Thank you. I can't wait --

  • Are we gonna host --

  • When the world is back open again,

  • I want to host your show again with you.

  • That was so fun. -You were fantastic,

  • and, honestly, it's an open invitation.

  • Come back whenever you want to, please.

  • I got to meet that baby. -For sure.

  • -You've had a very busy past few months.

  • In August, you released the song "WAP,"

  • and it became one of the biggest songs of the year.

  • And it had one of our pals on there, Megan Thee Stallion.

  • How did the song come together, and was --

  • was the plan always to have her on it?

  • -Well, I wanted a couple of girls in the song.

  • You know when you have ideas,

  • like, "I want to have this and that girl in the song,"

  • I really wanted to have Megan, but I didn't know her that well.

  • And our stylists linked us up,

  • and when our stylists linked us up,

  • we kicked it off really well. And I said, "Oh, girl, I got --

  • We'll just say, I got a song for you."

  • "Well, I got a song for you."

  • And she loved my song, and she hopped on it,

  • and we made "herstory." ♪ Herstory

  • -You've made "herstory." Oh, my gosh.

  • You did, you crushed it.

  • She is super-duper fun, by the way.

  • -She is. -Your new song, "Up,"

  • came out last week. Congrats on this.

  • Already number one.

  • After "WAP," did you go like --

  • Do you get pressure to put out another song?

  • Do you go like, "I don't want to do it.

  • I already scored"?

  • -Yeah, I do feel pressure, but then I feel, like,

  • pressure from my fans, like, "All right.

  • We want another -- We want another song."

  • -Ready. -So the pressure

  • was even more big because I haven't released

  • a solo single in like two years.

  • So I was like, "Oh, my God, I just want to go top 10."

  • And it's predicted to go probably number 2

  • on the Billboard Hot 100.

  • So I'm like, "Oh, wow. I exceeded my limit."

  • I'm extremely happy. -Oh, fantastic.

  • I love it. It's, like, up.

  • And then, "If it's up, then it's stuck"...

  • -Yeah. -...I'd never heard before,

  • but that's -- Did Offset -- Is that who --

  • I heard that he had something to do with that phrase?

  • -Well, he says that a lot.

  • I don't know if it's a down South thing.

  • Because after the song came out,

  • I thought it was, like, a Georgia thing,

  • but then people would say, "Ah, no, we say that

  • in New Orleans. We say that in Florida."

  • I'm like, "Okay, man, listen. All right, I guess, whatever."

  • -"You got it. It's yours, it's yours, whatever."

  • -"It's yours." [ Both laugh ]

  • -But if it's -- if it's up, then it's stuck.

  • -Yeah. -What does that mean?

  • -Um...

  • So, have you ever taken a poop, right?

  • -Hmm. -And it don't come out?

  • -Mm-hmm. -It's just up, and it's stuck.

  • -Okay.

  • -Yeah.

  • -Wow.

  • All right. I mean, I guess you could

  • take from it whatever you want, you know?

  • There's other...you know, ways to look at it, I guess.

  • -Yeah. -Yeah.

  • I was saying, if it's up, that it's up here forever.

  • Once you get up... [ Whistles ]

  • -It got -- It's a metaphor -- a metaphorical quote.

  • -Right? Yeah. -[ Laughs ]

  • You're floating, you're up, and you're stuck up,

  • and good for you, because you worked hard to get up,

  • and it's stuck, and now there you go.

  • -Yeah, stuck. -[ Laughs ]

  • -There's two -- There's different ways to look at it.

  • "Up" is already awesome.

  • Is there a new album on the way? Can we say anything or no?

  • -Um, I really want my next project

  • or anything that's related to music to just be my album.

  • I just got to focus on a couple of more songs

  • and do music videos,

  • and, you know, do the whole whoop-de-hoo,

  • so it's like, "Aw, man." We just gotta make sure.

  • -Is it tough, with the pandemic and everything,

  • to do, even to record a song, let alone do a video for it?

  • -Videos, yes, of course.

  • Because there's certain things that you can't do.

  • Like, you can't --

  • All right, so I did this pyramid, right?

  • I did this pyramid with some girls.

  • And the pyramid, we have to do it less than 10 seconds

  • because it was more than six people.

  • And due to COVID, people can't be touching.

  • Even though you get tested before the music video --

  • three times -- you get tested the beginning of the week,

  • the day before, and the day of.

  • So that's extra, the money... -Yeah.

  • -...spending in production. -Oh, exactly.

  • But didn't -- also, didn't you just --

  • didn't you, like, lick each other at some point

  • in the video? -Yeah, like --

  • Yeah, we had to, like, beg.

  • -So, the pyramid -- the pyramid, they go,

  • "No, you cannot do the pyramid." -Yeah.

  • -"But you can French kiss each other."

  • -Because there was six --

  • Wait. It was five of us in the shell.

  • But there was, like, how many girls?

  • Like 10 girls together.

  • It cannot be more than 10 people in a room.

  • Like, it's just -- the craziest protocols.

  • The craziest. -It's like, "No pyramid!

  • Stop it! Whoa. Licking?

  • Oh, three of you can lick each other.

  • Two --" [ Both laugh ]

  • "Only two people in a pyramid. Hey! Don't even --

  • Yes, you can lick. Of course you can lick each other."

  • It's like, "What is going on?" [ Both laugh ]

  • We don't know the rules. -I'm telling you,

  • it's the craziest thing.

  • If you work in production, you understand.

  • It is the craziest thing ever.

  • -The new "Fast and Furious."

  • Everyone's talking about this 'cause it's supposed

  • to come out in May. We don't know.

  • But "Fast and Furious," it's "F9."

  • You're in the movie. -Yeah.

  • -Well, this is major. Wait, but --

  • -It is major. -I have questions for you.

  • Cardi, you don't drive. Is that right?

  • -No. -So this is really acting.

  • [ Both laugh ]

  • 'Cause I know you have cars, but you don't -- ha ha!

  • But you don't -- Why don't you know how to drive?

  • Why don't you want to know? Don't you want your license?

  • You have to. -I do want my license,

  • because sometimes at nighttime, like at 3:00 in the morning,

  • I want some ice cream. -Yeah.

  • -And my husband is just laying, sleeping.

  • I'm like, "Oh, gosh.

  • I'm just gonna go to bed hungry."

  • -I checked out a couple of episodes of "Cardi Tries"

  • on Facebook.

  • I love the idea of this.

  • It's basically you try a bunch of things.

  • -Yeah.

  • -Is there anything that you would not try?

  • -I will not try garbage pickup,

  • like garbage man and stuff like that.

  • Because from the garbage, a lot of rats

  • and frickin' raccoons be coming out the garbage,

  • and I don't deal with that,

  • especially because I'm a New Yorker.

  • So, no, no, no. I will not do that.

  • -How about, uh -- How about, like, bungee jumping

  • or jumping out of a plane, all that stuff?

  • -Oh, no, no, I can't do that neither

  • because I am very afraid of heights.

  • I do not like -- I don't like excitement.

  • -I think your life is exciting enough.

  • You don't need more excitement. -No, I'm not an exciting person.

  • I do not like being on Jet Skis, none of that.

  • Like, your girl can't swim. I can't swim.

  • You know, I can't drive, I can't swim.

  • I don't know what to do. I just know how to rap, okay?

  • I just know how to rap and eat.

  • So... -Well --

  • -That's what I want to do. -It's really fun.

  • All the episodes of "Cardi Tries"

  • are on Facebook Watch.

  • I want to show everyone a clip.

  • Here's Cardi B trying out life on a ranch

  • in the latest episode of "Cardi Tries."

  • Take a look at this.

  • -[ Laughs ] He's like, "More for me."

  • -Do you think you're gonna want some pigs?

  • -Knowing that I gotta feed them slops, I don't think I can.

  • They're so stinky and oppressive.

  • They will run over my daughter. -Right?

  • -We don't want pigs, sorry.

  • We don't want pig-ass men,

  • and we don't want pigs as animals.

  • -No, we do not.

  • [ Both laugh ]

  • -I'm funny. -More with Cardi B

  • when we come back. Stick around, everybody!

-My first guest tonight is one of the biggest names in music.

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