The calendar says September, however Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B are clearly not prepared to surrender their Scorching Lady Summer season within the new video for his or her newest joint single, “Bongos.” The Technicolor extravaganza that dropped on Friday (Sept. 8) is crammed to bursting with a rainbow of high-fashion seems to be, sneakers so impossibly stacked that even Woman Gaga would have hassle balancing in them and, in fact, lyrics that may preserve censors working extra time.
For his or her first collab since 2020’s Billboard Scorching 200 No. 1 smash “WAP,” the pair tapped Ukrainian director Tanu Muino (Lil Nas X, Lizzo, Harry Kinds), who kicks issues off with a shot from behind of dancers in brightly coloured bathing fits bouncing alongside to the tune’s hypnotic “bong, bong, bong” chorus as they stability on beachside chaise lounges on geometrically formed excessive heels.
After a fast glimpse of Cardi laying within the sand in a purple and pink bikini with a big furry matching hat, the “Jealousy” rapper struts her stuff in Carnival-like blue, pink and yellow flamingo headdresses and matching bathing fits for a mansion filled with males in bikinis as she busts out the tune’s provocative first verse. “N—a eats this a– like a plum/ This p—y tight like a nun/ Higher chew it up prefer it’s gum/ Then wipe your mouth once you’re achieved,” she raps over the tune’s insistent beat.
“I’m sizzling like Nevada/ P—y get popped, piñata/ B–ch, I appear to be cash/ You can print my face on a greenback,” Cardi provides earlier than the “Beat it up (bong bong bong bong)” chorus comes round and Cardi twerks in entrance of an open fridge whereas rocking a burgundy string bikini and matching cascading braids.
Cardi warned followers in a preview DJ Whoo Child interview that followers shouldn’t anticipate the “Bongos” video to serve up the identical vitality she and Meg introduced within the eye-popping “WAP” clip, however the two positively share the same high-fashion, all-the-colors-of-the-rainbow aesthetic, minus the latter’s celeb (and massive cat) cameos, in fact.
Cardi kicks off the second “Bongos” verse modeling one in every of her wildest outfits ever, a body-hugging paisley bodysuit that matches the sample on a sofa she grinds her hips on whereas dissing unnamed “dusty-a– hoes.” After Cardi’s surfside hip-swiveling routine with a half dozen dancers, Megan will get her spot, getting into the motion in a provocative inexperienced monokini and matching headdress whereas posing on a diving board.
“This a– sit just like the stallion/ All these wannabes my lil’ ponies/ These hoes camped out within the feedback/ All the time talkin’ like they know me/ Thick b—hes within the black truck, packed in,” Meg raps earlier than busting out her personal routine on a swim-up platform in entrance of a large mansion whereas bragging a couple of purse so huge “needed to deal with it like an individual.”
And whereas Cardi promised Whoo Child the video was “intricate [and] stunning” and that it had a “totally different theme” than the “WAP” visible, don’t fear, there are nonetheless loads of be-thonged butts shaking all through, in addition to a Bollywood-style part the place Cardi, Megan and their dancers rock the sand in vivid, gauzy outfits that includes billowing materials on their hips fanned out like wings.
Alongside the way in which the pair pose provocatively on a strip-club-worthy oceanside jungle health club earlier than Cardi steals the present with a last, over-the-top look that features a flowing curly copper wig, monumental orange and purple earrings and foot-high chunky heels that will make an acrobat topple over.
Watch the “Bongos” video under.
