Cardi B revealed one of many downsides of constructing songs with raunchy lyrics.
Throughout a current interview on Scorching Ones, Cardi B answered a string of questions whereas consuming scorching wings that progressively bought hotter.
Cardi was requested how she feels about making radio-friendly variations of her songs, and she or he did not waste any time giving her reply.
“Annoying,” Cardi yelled. “So annoying. I simply did it virtually two weeks in the past. I used to be so over it.”
She revealed she recorded a clear model of her newest single, “Bongos,” that includes Megan Thee Stallion. And Cardi needed to get actual inventive with the brand new lyrics, as a result of even the opening line of the track is X-rated.
“In [‘Bongos’] I might be like, ‘N***a, eat this ass like a plum.’ So [when] I am doing the clear model, I am like, ‘Child, eat it up like a plum.'”
However even that slight change did not sit properly with radio executives. The lyrics had been nonetheless just a little too suggestive for the pop radio charts.
“They’re like, ‘No, you continue to cannot play that for pop radio.’ No matter. So I am like, ‘Child, eat these peaches and plums.’ That sounds so corny!”
“That appears like Kidz Bop. However I had no alternative. So child, eat these peaches and plums.”
Cardi and Meg carried out the track reside for the primary time on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards. That is their second collaboration collectively.
Whereas she may not be a fan of the edited model, the track is already doing numbers on the Billboard charts — it climbed into the High 5 Scorching R&B/Hip Hop songs chart throughout its debut.