"This is a incredibly spare song. It's almost spoken word in a way very clearly about Cardi's divorce from Offset, and it is laden with disappointment and emotional nuance. It's really refreshing to hear Cardi rapping like this, because what it really reminds me of is how Cardi tweets. If I were to say that about most artists, that's probably an insult. But for Cardi, that's high praise. Cardi is one of the great emotional expressers of our time."
"I think of her first album, Invasion of Privacy, as a genuine New York rap classic. To me, it's a clear inheritor of two to three decades of New York rap music, Jay-Z and Biggie, and certainly even earlier than that. When you think of Cardi in those terms, that pugnacious, ready-for-war flow, that baddapba, baddapa, someone who wants to foreground toughness. But if you see Cardi on Twitter talking with fans, talking with enemies, she's incredibly blunt."
Cardi B delivers a spare, almost spoken-word performance that centers on her divorce from Offset, filled with disappointment and layered emotion. The track recalls her blunt, conversational presence on Twitter while revealing technical skill in internal rhyme and polysyllabic phrasing. Earlier work like Invasion of Privacy established her as a New York rap heir to Jay-Z and Biggie with a combative, tough flow. The new song shifts focus to candid vulnerability, balancing accusations toward Offset with admissions of personal shortcomings and absence within the relationship.
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