Everybody begins someplace. Now a Grammy-winning world sensation with 5 No. 1 singles to her title, Cardi B simply shared a throwback to what she was doing about seven years in the past: posing for some promo images for her first mixtape, 2016’s Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1.
“My first mixtape promo images ….I had a dream,” the rapper tweeted Wednesday (Dec. 28), captioning a trio of snaps taken main as much as the mixtape’s launch.
In one of many images, she pours a cup of detergent right into a washer at a laundromat whereas carrying a black underwear set that exhibits off the vast majority of the signature peacock tattoo on her thigh. In one other, she stands at a range carrying a crimson bikini prime and bandana in her blue hair, stirring a pot together with her tongue protruding.
“’I don’t prepare dinner I don’t clear’ again within the day once you cooked and cleaned,” joked one fan within the replies, referencing considered one of Cardi’s “WAP” lyrics.
Every of the images is labelled with a reminder to pre-order her debut mixtape. Over a photograph of the Bronx native posing on prime of a graffitied blue mailbox reads the message, “Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1 2 DAYS LEFT to pre-order. Free copy name 718.215.0159.”
Although Cardi has launched two extra mixtapes and a debut studio album since Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 1, the mixtape was as soon as once more on the middle of public focus this 12 months. In October, the “Up” artist gained a lawsuit filed in opposition to her by a person who claimed his rights had been violated after his tattoos had been Photoshopped onto the again of a male mannequin on the duvet of the mixtape.
The Gangsta Bitch promo images aren’t the primary time that Cardi has appeared again fondly on previous profession moments. On Monday (Dec. 26), she retweeted a clip from her 2017 “Lick” music video that includes Offset, the Migos star whom she would marry later that 12 months.
“I couldn’t even breath doing this video,” she wrote. “I used to be crushing laborious on Set.”
See Cardi B’s throwback tweet beneath:
