Cardi B

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar born October 11 1992 known professionally as Cardi B is an American rapper songwriter and actress Her first studio album Invasion of Privacy 2018 debuted at number one on the Billboard 200 was certified triple platinum by the RIAA and was the bestselling female rap album of the 2010s according to Billboard Critically acclaimed it made Cardi B the only woman to win the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album as a solo artist and marked the first female rap album after fifteen years to be nominated for Album of the Year It spawned two numberone singles on the Billboard Hot 100 With Bodak Yellow Cardi B became the first female rapper to achieve a Diamondcertified song by the RIAA as well as the second female rapper to top the Hot 100 with a solo outputfollowing Lauryn Hill in 1998 I Like It marked the first time a female rapper attained multiple numberone songs on the chart With her feature on Girls Like You with band Maroon 5 she became the first female rapper to achieve multiple Diamondcertified songs by the RIAA Her accolades include a Grammy Award eight Billboard Music Awards five Guinness World Records six American Music Awards fourteen BET Hip Hop Awards and two ASCAP Songwriter of the Year awards In 2018 Time magazine included her on their annual list of the 100 most influential people in the world and in 2020 Billboard honored her as Woman of the Year Cardi B made her film debut in Hustlers 2019 directed by Lorene Scafaria opposite Jennifer Lopez and Constance Wu