Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are giving away $1 million to "powerful women"
Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion are celebrating the success of their record-breaking single ‘WAP’ by giving away a million dollars.
The song shot to number 1 in the Billboard Top 100 chart while racking up an impressive 93 million streams in the United States after its August 7th release date – the highest amount ever recorded in an opening seven-day period.
“Y’all made ‘WAP’ amazing,” Cardi B told her followers on Twitter yesterday. “We’re partnering with Twitter and Cash App to give away a total of $1 million dollars to celebrate all you powerful women out there. Tell us why you or a woman you know can use a piece of the $”.
The two rappers have since retweeted numerous women posting about the $500 they received.
YOOO IM LITERALLY CRYING THANK YOU SO MUCH 😭😭😭 @iamcardib 💓💓💓 IMMA RIDE OR DIE FOR U NO MATTER WHAT I HOPE YOU KNOW THAT !! pic.twitter.com/V5qAjTnF63
— d ✧ (@lrrepIaceable) August 19, 2020
A hot topic of debate since its release, the track’s sexually explicit nature has been championed by many as a feminist masterpiece, however, it has also received a considerable amount of backlash from those on the right-wing end of the spectrum and beyond. Tiger King’s Carole Baskin recently labelled the song “lurid” while speaking out against the use of wild cat imagery in the music video.
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