Real name Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar (born in the Bronx district of New York on
October 11, 1992), Cardi B has added her pseudonym to the ranks of America's
greatest female rappers thanks to a long series of tracks, collaborations and a
number-one debut album in 2018: Invasion of Privacy. The daughter of a Dominican
father and a Trinidadian mother, she experienced a tumultuous youth of gangs,
odd jobs and domestic violence before emancipating herself. After a period in
striptease to pay for her studies, in 2015 she took part in the Love & Hip-Hop
show, while feeding her social ne...