
Cardi B, Megan Thee Stallion, and Beyonce Getty Photographs; FilmMagic; Wireimage
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion‘s new video has all the things: bikinis, booty, and … a low-key shout-out to Beyoncé?
Cardi, 30, and Megan, 28, dropped “Bongos,” the religious successor to “WAP,” on Friday, September 8, and shortly after it was on-line, some followers remarked the colourful video had some Bey vibes to it. Viewers particularly clocked that the mansion featured within the video was the identical luxurious palace Beyoncé, 42, utilized in her “Temper 4 EVA” visible. “Did anyone catch this?” remarked one fan. “Come on, Black Is King Mansion,” commented one other.
Others in contrast the scene with Meg and Cardi on the seashore to how Beyoncé carried out “Standing On The Solar,” with flowing clothes and tons of pores and skin. “Very standing on the [sun emoji] impressed,” one fan tweeted whereas displaying a side-by-side of the 2 performances. “Queen acknowledged Queen!” snapped a second fan, including that the video was “giving colourful realness like Beyoncé.”
“Bongos” marks Cardi’s fourth main single of 2023, having teamed with husband Offset for “Jealousy,” with FendiDa Rappa for “Level Me 2” and Latto for “Put It on da Flooring Once more.” The track will as soon as once more elevate questions on whether or not she plans to launch her sophomore album, the follow-up to 2018’s Invasion of Privateness, earlier than the yr ends.
“I’m conserving it underneath wraps. I’m type of nonetheless working, however I’ve a date in thoughts,” Cardi stated of the highly-anticipated album whereas talking with Whoo Child for his SiriusXM present Whoo’s Home. When Whoo Child talked about that Cardi’s birthday – October 11 – is perhaps a superb time to drop the album, she shut that down. “It’s not coming round my birthday. It’s not. It’s not. … Matter of reality, I don’t need nothing popping out within the month of October. October is my month.”
Throughout the dialog, Whoo Child talked about how Beyoncé despatched Cardi flowers “final yr or [a] yr earlier than” earlier than asking if Bey can be on the subsequent album. Cardi dismissed the query however wasn’t so coy when discussing Megan’s involvement in “Bongos.”

“The half the place Megan is type of at within the track, as a result of we chopped the track loads, just like the half the place like she’s at, or not it’s like ‘Bong, bong, bong,’ and I used to be planning for that to be the hook, however it simply sounded so incomplete. Then, we similar to, ‘This track wants a characteristic,’” she stated.
Cardi continued: “So it’s like lots of people wished it to go the Spanish route with it, and I’m like, ‘I may see that.’ I may see that, undoubtedly. In fact, you might really feel it, however I used to be like, ‘I really feel like I hear Megan on this.’ It’s like, ‘Actually? You don’t suppose …it’s extra like of the Latin half,’ and I’m like, ‘Yeah, however I hear her on this. Like, I do know it. I do know I may hear her on this.’”