If Cardi B doesn’t know already, she’s becoming a libertarian icon. The announcement of her new album, titled “Invasion of Privacy,” set to drop in early April, is cementing her place at the top of the ballot on the Libertarian Party ticket in 2028.
Look at this album cover.
Less than a week ago, Cardi B trashed Congress as well as state and local governments over the lack of transparency with respect to where her tax dollars went.
Next thing you know, Cardi B, born Belcalis Almanzar, will start railing against the government over issues like occupational licensing and gun control. And she’s already weighed in on how to improve school safety in the wake of the Parkland shooting.
What’s amazing about Cardi B’s libertarian leanings is that you simply do not expect to hear them in a world filled with liberal celebrities and entertainers. Cardi B is one of the biggest names, if not the biggest name, in hip-hop right now. She’s dropping chart-topping hit after chart-topping hit — and she’s dating one of the more talented and successful rappers in the game, Offset from Migos, to boot.
Whether she’s trying to highlight the bulk collection of metadata from people’s cellphones and computers from the National Security Agency or making light of Facebook’s Cambridge Analytica problem, Cardi B’s “Invasion of Privacy” will move units in a way that a woman in a male-dominated profession has rarely seen. Nicki Minaj was the last woman in hip-hop to have a debut album sell so well, and she sold more than 2 million of them.
So, yes, Cardi B might not get into the weeds about liberty or how we need to protect our privacy from big government on her album. But the themes are there, and her millions of fans will begin to recognize these important issues sooner rather than later.
