Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion Dimitrios Kambouris/Getty Pictures (2)
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion introduced the warmth with their efficiency of “Bongos” on the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, September 12.
Cardi B, 30, and Megan, 28, carried out their new single reside for the primary time in matching blue bodysuits. The 2 ladies coordinated their hairstyles as properly, opting to put on their tresses down and curly.
The quantity, which was full with loads of twerking, gained the approval of Cardi B’s husband, Offset. The 31-year-old Migos member puffed up his spouse’s set with a standing ovation on the finish of the efficiency.
The second marked the primary time Cardi B and Megan carried out on the VMAs fundamental stage. Every had beforehand appeared solo on the pre-show, Cardi in 2017 and Megan in 2019. Their duet additionally served because the reside debut of “Bongos,” which dropped on Friday, September 8.
Each of the rappers are nominated on the awards present. Cardi B’s collaboration with GloRilla, “Tomorrow 2,” is up for Greatest Hip-Hop Video, whereas Megan’s track “Her” obtained nods for Greatest Route, Greatest Choreography and Greatest Artwork Route.
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Cardi B and Megan’s first collab, the 2020 hit “WAP” grew to become the primary feminine rap collaboration to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 chart. Cardi B opened up earlier this month about how she conceived the pair’s second duet.
“I had the beat for a minute, after which I had the document for a minute. Like, the beat was simply so plain, and the texture is so plain,” she defined on SiriusXM’s Hip-Hop Nation, noting that she had already workshopped a number of lyrics earlier than deciding to incorporate Megan. “But it surely nonetheless sounded incomplete. So then I began placing my verses on it the place, like, the components the place Megan is at … but it surely simply sounded to me like a long-ass track.”
That’s when she imagined the track as a duet. “I’m like, ‘This track wants dynamics, so it wants a function. Like, it simply can not sound like me, me, me, me, me, me, me. ‘Trigger it simply appears like an extended, lengthy sentence,’” she recalled.
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Forward of the one’s launch, Cardi B shared on the “WHOO’s Home Podcast” how the ladies have bonded via their work.
“We put in our sweat and all the pieces,” she stated, including that the 2 “belief” one another. “It’s like on some ‘Bitch, you bounce, I bounce. Should you wit it, I wit it. We’re gonna do it.’ We labored so arduous on the music video. You’re gonna see. … That’s thought put into that.”
As for the music video, Cardi initially needed to shoot it overseas to keep away from leaks, however hurricane season made her plans not possible. The undertaking ended up costing $2 million due to her efforts — together with geofencing that allowed the crew to watch cellular units within the space and in-ears that stored the music from being performed aloud — to make sure the track and the video stayed underneath wraps till its launch.
“Malibu all the time [has] paparazzi and all the pieces, so we employed about 20 guards, 15 guards simply guarding the entire space,” she advised the Means Up radio present earlier this month. “One of these stuff price some huge cash for the movies and rehearsals on daily basis — it price some huge cash, it’s lots of work.”
