Author: Chris Richards / Source: Washington Post
If you know Cardi B’s music, you know she has a big mouth. And if you’ve caught her in concert, you know she isn’t shy about showing it off.
Never mind her tremendous gab-gifts. The woman’s smile is wide enough to span three Zip codes.She seemed especially smiley at the sixth annual Broccoli City Festival in Washington on Saturday. How come? Maybe because her debut album, “Invasion of Privacy,” went No. 1 earlier this month, cementing her spot in the American pop firmament. Or maybe it was because this would be Cardi’s last concert before the birth of her first child — with Offset of the Atlanta rap maestros Migos. Or maybe she just likes the way her blab detonates in her mouth as much as everybody else does. “I like dollars, I like diamonds, I like stunting, I like shining,” she rhymed at the top of her voice on Saturday night, joined by thousands of festivalgoers who like those things, too. If you weren’t shouting along, you were basking in her life force. The mood was pure joy.
And this was a family affair. During a headlining performance from Migos, Offset flaunted the locomotive force of his rhymes during “Walk It Talk It,” a mysteriously repetitive song where he and his comrades appear to be walk-talking in circles, but still manage to gain ground, as if scaling some M.C. Escher staircase. It was…
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