Cardi B is a female American hip-hop artist, rapper. social media icon and TV entertainer coming from Bronx, New York.

Cardi B Net worth

Her stardom started when she discussed her past job as a stripper in an online media that has been blowing her career up since then. She is also signed up to Atlantic Records and her career has been steady ever since.

Cardi B Before She Became Famous

Born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar on 11th October 1992, in the Bronx, New York. She was born in a multicultural family as her father is a Dominican while her mother is a Trinidadian. She spend most of her time as a child at her grandparents house

Cardi B teenager self was actually a member of a street gang known as “Bloods”, she also stated that she had attended renaissance high school, taking musical theatre and technology as her major and worked at a supermarket before she decided to do stripping at the age of 19.

In one of her interviews, Cardi stated the reason why she became a stripper was to escape poverty and domestic violence of her past toxic relationships with some men. With her hard earned money as a stripper, she could go back to her school and pursue her degree.


The Career of Cardi B

Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar shortened her name to Cardi B, liking it to the name of the rum Bacardi.

In 2013 her social media accounts gained a lot of traction through her Vine and Instagram accounts going viral.

Her career started when she joining a reality TV shows called “Love & Hip Hop: New York” in 2015.

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She made her debut single with “Boom Boom” in November 2015 and “Cheap Ass Weave” that bang her first step of a music career in the industry.

From that year onwards, she released a number of mixtapes and singles. Cardi B was also featured in some magazines like Vibe which grew her reputation in the fashion industry. All of her mixtapes around 2016-2017 helped to make her a huge hit in 2017.

In 2017 she also partnered with MAC cosmetic for the big annual fashion week.

Her song, “Bodak Yellow” had been on the top US billboard hot 100 charts for a period of time. She is also the first female rapper to secure a place in the Hot R&B/ Hip-hop single chart and has had three entries in the top 10 of the hot 100 Billboard chart.

 

Cardi B Net Worth in 2019

In 2019, Cardi B’S net worth around $9 million and earns around $1.5 to $2 million per year, thanks to her career advancement in the past years.

Recently, she has bought a Cadillac that was worth around $100.000 to be added into her car collection. She is also reported to own a house worth of $900.000.

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