Cardi B is officially Billboard‘s woman of the year! On Dec. 10, the rapper took home the coveted award during the outlet’s virtual Women in Music event. The honor was presented by Breonna Taylor’s mother, Tamika Palmer, who introduced Cardi as someone who has “used her platform to spread the truth about what happened to Breonna and to reaffirm that Black women’s lives matter.”
While accepting the trophy, Cardi reflected on how the COVID-19 pandemic adversely affected her creativity. But she expressed gratitude for being able to drop her “WAP” collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion, which topped multiple charts and broke a streaming record. And, in true Cardi B fashion, she added a comedic twist to her message. “Not only was it an amazing song that broke so many records, but it was a conversation that I never thought was going to be so big,” s