Cardi B talks 'Cardi Tries__' series and why 'feminist' song of the year 'WAP' was 'cultural reset'

At last weeks Billboard Women in Music ceremony, when Cardi B accepted the nights top award for 2020 Woman of the Year, she explained her work ethic, saying, Life is about making your dreams come true but in order to make your dreams come true, don’t think that it’s gonna come and fall from the sky to your lap. You actually gotta put in the work. I practice, so I can become better and better.

This is a mindset that Cardi is now applying to her new eight-episode series on Messengers Watch Together, Cardi Tries__, premiering this week with the hip-hop superstar taking a ballet lesson from famed (and Fame!) choreographer Debbie Allen. Later, shell try stunt-car driving with Michelle Rodriguez and Bri Lynch, sushi-making with Yamashiro head chef Vallerie Archer, and ranching with country singer Mickey Guyton, among other new endeavors. Despite her above-mentioned can-do attitude, the Grammy-winning rapper freely admits, I wasn’t trying to be like trying to be, like, the best I could be at something, because OK, there’s [an episode] where I’m playing basketball with Damian Lillard and I will never be the best at that, because I’m just not a sporty girl! However, she confesses that it was the ballet class with Allen that was toughest challenge of all. It hurted, she chuckles. It hurted a lot.

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