Joey Bada$$ reveals issues with Cardi B’s hit song ‘Bodak Yellow’
Flatbush rapper Joey Bada$$, a man known for being opinionated, has admitted that despite loving Cardi B, he has a big issue with her 2017 global hit ‘Bodak Yellow’ being classed as a New York anthem.
As fans know, both musicians are from New York, and are hailed as musical royalty from the Big Apple. This has led to questions about whether Cardi’s breakout hit is indeed a “New York anthem”. However, Bada$$ asserts that the flow of ‘Bodak Yellow’ is similar to that of Kodak Black song, a Florida rapper, meaning that musically, the track does not spiritually fit in with the music of their native city.
Bada$$ revealed all during an interview with fellow New York legend, Wu-Tang Clan’s Method Man for Billboard. He started: “This is my disclaimer with ‘Bodak Yellow.’ First of all, I love Cardi B … But, for me, ‘Bodak Yellow,’ is literallya Kodak Black flow. Like, it’s a Florida flow, you know what I’m saying? … We having a conversation about New York anthems.”
Continuing: “While, okay, yes, I think that it definitely was an anthemic record for beyond New York, I think that it just has this DNA of not a New York song. Let’s be real about it. If Kodak Black didn’t exist we would have never have gotten ‘Bodak Yellow.’”
Elsewhere this year, Bada$$ took to X to discuss why he thinks first-week sales aren’t all they are cracked up to be. He said: “I feel really compelled to say: F*ck first week sales. They simply don’t matter anymore for the simple fact that no one is buying albums. I mean, when’s the last time anyone you know bought an album?!”
The rapper added that as everyone can all stream anything we want to now, therefore, for it to count as an actual album sale, you need to listen to every song “like 1000+ times.” The ‘Head High’ rapper maintained that the powers that be are trying to make it seem like musicians are faltering, when in reality they just changed the rules.
As for Cardi B, she recently gave birth to her third child, and has continued to tease details about her long-awaited second album, the follow-up to 2018’s Invasion of Privacy. “Album still sellin like good quality pussy,” she recently joked on X about her debut. “OKAY OKAY let me stop playing and drop this second album [shh emoji]:.
Elsewhere, Cardi also weighed in on comparisons to other rappers as the bitter Ice Spice and Cleotrapa feud continues to unfold.