Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion brought the heat with their performance of “Bongos” at the 2023 MTV Video Music Awards on Tuesday, September 12.
Cardi B, 30, and Megan, 28, carried out their new unmarried live for the first time in matching blue bodysuits. The two girls coordinated their hairstyles as neatly, opting to wear their tresses down and curly.
The number, which was once complete with numerous twerking, won the approval of Cardi B’s husband, Offset. The 31-year-old Migos member hyped up his wife’s set with a status ovation at the top of the performance.
The second marked the primary time Cardi B and Megan carried out on the VMAs main degree. Each had in the past appeared solo at the pre-show, Cardi in 2017 and Megan in 2019. Their duet also served as the are living debut of “Bongos,” which dropped on Friday, September 8.
Both of the rappers are nominated at the awards exhibit. Cardi B’s collaboration with GloRilla, “Tomorrow 2,” is up for Best Hip-Hop Video, whilst Megan’s song “Her” won nods for Best Direction, Best Choreography and Best Art Direction.
Cardi B and Megan’s first collab, the 2020 hit “WAP” become the first female rap collaboration to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot one hundred chart. Cardi B opened up earlier this month about how she conceived the pair’s 2d duet.
“I had the beat for a minute, and then I had the report for a minute. Like, the beat used to be in order that plain, and the feel is so plain,” she explained on SiriusXM’s Hip-Hop Nation, noting that she had already workshopped several lyrics sooner than deciding to include Megan. “But it still sounded incomplete. So then I started placing my verses on it the place, like, the portions where Megan is at … nevertheless it simply sounded to me like a long-ass song.”
That’s when she imagined the music as a duet. “I’m like, ‘This tune wishes dynamics, so it wishes a characteristic. Like, it just can't sound like me, me, me, me, me, me, me. ‘Cause it simply seems like an extended, long sentence,’” she recalled.
Ahead of the one’s release, Cardi B shared at the “WHOO’s House Podcast” how the women have bonded through their paintings.
“We put in our sweat and the whole lot,” she stated, including that the 2 “accept as true with” each different. “It’s like on some ‘Bitch, you soar, I leap. If you wit it, I wit it. We’re gonna do it.’ We labored so arduous at the tune video. You’re gonna see. … That’s idea put into that.”
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As for the music video, Cardi initially wanted to shoot it out of the country to avoid leaks, however hurricane season made her plans unattainable. The venture ended up costing $2 million on account of her efforts — including geofencing that allowed the staff to observe cellular units within the space and in-ears that stored the track from being played aloud — to ensure the song and the video stayed below wraps until its liberate.
“Malibu always [has] paparazzi and the whole lot, so we hired about 20 guards, 15 guards just guarding the whole space,” she instructed the Way Up radio show previous this month. “This type of stuff value a lot of money for the movies and rehearsals each day — it value some huge cash, it’s a lot of paintings.”
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