Keep in mind the summer season of 2020 when Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s “WAP” was inescapable? The primary feminine rap collaboration to debut on the high of the Billboard Sizzling 100 had the nation (and the world) entranced, even because the true that means of the acronym resulted in some embarrassed mumbling when grannies requested us what it stood for.
The latter would possibly clarify why the dynamic duo didn’t submit the tune for Grammy consideration that yr. The truth is, throughout a sit down with Jason Lee for his REVOLT present this week, Cardi — by no means shy about sharing her most intimate emotions and ideas on-line — mentioned she held the tune again as a result of she was nervous about what the web would say.
“You recognize what? That is one thing that — it’s like, I have to cease letting the web management my life,” Cardi informed Lee. “As a result of I didn’t need to submit ‘WAP’ as a result of I used to be afraid that if I win or if I… You recognize what’s so loopy? The web acquired me even afraid of profitable. That’s insane.”
Lee mentioned when he heard that Cardi was shy about submitting the sex-positive anthem for potential Grammy gold, “I wished to leap via the telephone and scream at you. As a result of what I cherished about this tune is that it united two superstars.” The tune, which was Cardi’s fourth No. 1 and Megan’s second within the U.S., spent 4 weeks atop the Billboard Sizzling 100 and have become the primary No. 1 on the inaugural Billboard World 200.
Watch the “WAP” discuss beneath.
