How Old is Cardi B and What Did She Do Before She Became Famous?

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Despite growing up in the ghetto, Cardi B has impressively scaled through the hurdles of life and transformed into one of the hottest rappers in the music industry. She is a New York-born rapper, songwriter, singer, TV personality, and actress. While her emergence to fame is not surprising to those who consider her as a very talented artist, many of her fans wonder just how old Cardi B would be to have achieved this much.

What was Cardi B’s life like before fame came along and what did she do for a living? To answer the questions, here are facts about the rapper.

How Old Is Cardi B?

The American rap star Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar was born in Manhattan, New York, on October 11, 1992. Although she was born in the United States, from her looks, one could easily guess she is of multiple races. Her mother is Trinidadian and Spanish while her father is Dominican. Cardi B grew up in South Bronx, Highbridge where she spent much of her early years with her paternal grandmother. She also claimed to have developed her thick accent from there. Her stage name Cardi B was coined from her previous nickname Bacardi.

Cardi B was asthmatic when she was much younger. It made her mother uneasy and she would often stay awake at night to avoid losing her to an asthma attack. That illness is all in the past now.

Cardi B has a younger sister named Hennessy Carolina Almánzar. Hennessy began to receive attention from the media after her elder sister started achieving fame as a rapper. Hennessy fancies the spotlight and continues to savor the attention she receives by now becoming a television personality, as well as being a social media star.

Even though she was brought up in a rough neighborhood, Cardi B was still enthusiastic about attending school. She attended Renaissance High School for Musical Theater and Technology and graduated in 2010. She then took Political Science, Western Civilization and French classes at Borough Manhattan Community College. She dropped out of college after just a few semesters.

What Did She Do Before Her Fame?

Growing up in the ghetto had a bad effect on her. She mixed up with the wrong people and they influenced her into joining the street gang known as Bloods. She joined the New York gang when she was 16. Ever since she became a public figure, Cardi B has condemned her act of joining the gang and urges her fans to stay away from joining street gangs.

Before she found her fame in music, Cardi B worked as a cashier at a supermarket in New York at the same time she was still schooling. She was, however, fired, after which she went in search of better opportunities as her pay from the job was not yielding much income. She started working as a stripper at the age of 19. Cardi claimed being a stripper freed her from her financial problems. It also helped her to muster the courage to leave her abusive boyfriend who she was living with.

Cardi’s family members were unaware of her stripping job and she lied to her mother that she earned her money through babysitting kids of rich folks. It was in 2013 that she began to gain publicity. Videos she shared on her various social media accounts started going viral, mostly on Instagram and Vine. Her fame blew up when she began to feature in VH1’s reality television show Love & Hip Hop: New York. She made her appearance on the reality show in the 6th season.

Career Achievements

The New York-born singer kicked off her musical career in 2016 and she is already having such an incredible and successful record. So far, she has dropped just a single studio album, 27 singles, 2 mixtapes, and 14 music videos. She signed her first major label deal in 2017, with Atlantic Records.

In just a short period, Cardi B began to enjoy the benefits of her hard work. She has so far been nominated for 260 awards and emerged as the winner in 91 occasions. She has a Grammy Award to her name, earned in the category of Best Rap Album at the 2018 Grammy Award for her album titled Invasion of Privacy.