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Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B Just Won the 2021 Grammys With Their Performance
It's official: Megan Thee Stallion and Cardi B just won the Grammys 2021 with their first-ever live performance of “WAP.”
Watch a clip of it for yourself, below:
https://twitter.com/MikeAdamOnAir/status/1371284784169750532Megan Thee Stallion, who won Best New Artist Award, also performed “Body” and “Savage" during the set, while Cardi B performed “Up.”
https://twitter.com/MikeAdamOnAir/status/1371283280507600898https://twitter.com/MikeAdamOnAir/status/1371283908638212101This Grammy 2021 performance is the cherry on top of what's been an exciting year for Megan Thee Stallion. The 26-year-old rapper received four nominations at this year's Grammys: Record of the Year, Best Rap Song, and Best Rap Performance—all for the “Savage” remix with Beyoncé—plus Best New Artist.
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“WAP, which abbreviates “wet ass pussy," ruffled some feathers with conservatives upon its release last year, but neither Megan nor Cardi is sweating it.
“First of all, I wanna say thank you to Cardi for even putting me on the song,” Megan told Stephen Colbert on The Late Show December 9, 2020. “But, I mean, I felt like [the backlash] was really, like, a little weird. I know the Republicans have been having a bad year, and they probably needed to take their frustration out somewhere.”
She continued, “But I wanna tell them thank you for the streams! Because without you, I don't know if we would've been here! But no, them people crazy—why you worried about my WAP?”
Cardi B has similar thoughts. “The people that the song bothers are usually conservatives or really religious people, but my thing is I grew up listening to this type of music,” she said in August 2020 on the Australian radio show The Kyle and Jackie O Show. “Other people might think it's strange and vulgar, but to me it's almost like really normal, you know what I'm saying?”
She added, “You wanna know something? It's what people wanna hear. If people didn't wanna hear it, if they were so afraid to hear it, it wouldn't be doing as good.”
For more info on the Grammys 2021, click here.
This story originally appeared on: Glamour - Author:Christopher Rosa
