Cardi B’s Instagram messages usually have a solid cadence to them, and meme savants the Gregory Brothers have turned their songifying skills to her passionate rant against President Trump and the GOP over the government shutdown. Titled “Yeah B—h / Nah B—h,” the short clips mashes up several of Cardi’s lines with the beat from her 2017 starmaking hit, “Bodak Yellow.” A rep for Cardi did not immediately respond to Variety’s request for comment, although the rapper posted about the shutdown again on Thursday night (below). so excited for our first co-write with @iamcardib, Yeah Bitch / Nah Bitch 🔊🔊🙏 pic.twitter.com/CoCV7hQPHa — The Gregory Brothers want you to register to vote (@gregorybrothers) January 17, 2019 Cardi’s original message, posted Wednesday, called out the U.S. government for the shutdown that began Dec. 22. “Trump is now ordering federal workers to go back to work without getting paid,” said Cardi, who went on to defend Obama’s shutdown in 2013, noting that it was “for healthcare.” In her signature delivery, she argued, “So your grandma could check her blood pressure and y’all bitches could go check y’all pussy at the gynecologist without no motherf—ing problem. … Our country is in a hellhole right now. All for a f—ing wall. We really need to take this serious.” “Bitch, I’m scared,” she concluded. “This is crazy and I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to f—ing work to not get motherf—ing paid.”<doc-sep>The folks behind Auto-Tune the News from days of internet past now worked their magic on Cardi B’s government shutdown rant. The Gregory Brothers — a.k.a. Evan, Andrew, Michael, and Sarah — gave the internet viral hits like “Bed Intruder” with Antonie “Hide Your Kids” Dodson and “Can’t Hug Every Cat.” Now they give us “Yeah B— / Nah B—,” a remix of Cardi B’s no-holds-barred takedown of President Trump and the longest government shutdown in the history of the country. “So excited for our first co-write with @iamcardib,” The Gregory Brothers, who tapped the Invasion of Privacy rapper’s beat from “Bodak Yellow” for the video, tweeted. Cardi B’s original video, posted to her Instagram on Wednesday, called out Trump and the White House for “ordering federal workers to go back to work without getting paid” during the shutdown. The 26-year-old has since posted a response to users online arguing she “shouldn’t talk about politics.” “Well I know a little something something,” she fired back on Instagram. “That is the most amazing thing ever! That is so dope,” Trevor Noah said on The Daily Show of Cardi B’s comments. “How cool would it be if Cardi B somehow ended the shutdown?” he continued. “Like we find out Trump is a major fan because ‘Bodak Yellow’ is his favorite song and also the color of his hair.”<doc-sep>Cardi B has some thoughts on the partial government shutdown — and she’s not holding back. The 26-year-old Bronx-born rapper posted a video on Instagram on Wednesday night addressing the now 27-day government shutdown and blasted President Donald Trump for refusing to fund the government over a “fucking wall.” “This shit is crazy,” she said in the profanity-laced video. “Like, our country is a hellhole right now, all for a fucking wall. And we really need to take this serious.” She pointed out that the shutdown has been going on for more than three weeks and noted that federal government workers were being forced to work without pay. “Now, I don’t want to hear y’all motherfuckers talking about oh, but Obama shut down the government for 17 days. Yeah, bitch, for health care,” she said. “So your grandma could check her blood pressure and you bitches could go check your pussy in the gynecologist with no motherfucking problem.” Cardi B, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, later continued, “I feel like we need to take some action. I don’t know what type of action, because that’s not what I do, but bitch, I’m scared. This is crazy. And I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to fucking work to not get motherfucking paid.” The video, posted to Cardi B’s nearly 40 million followers, quickly went viral. By Thursday morning, it had racked up more than 9.4 million views. It obviously generated buzz on Twitter, including among lawmakers in Washington, DC. Sens. Brian Schatz (D-HI) and Chris Murphy (D-CT) discussed whether they would retweet the video, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer weighed in on the debate. “Guys, I’m still holding my breath. Are you gonna RT Cardi B or not?” Schumer tweeted. Cardi B apparently didn’t realize what had happened with the video until she signed on to Twitter Wednesday night, when she asked why she was trending. Why am I trending? — iamcardib (@iamcardib) January 17, 2019 In a separate Instagram Live video this week, she blasted Trump’s insistence on the border wall, according to the Hill. “You promised these fucking racist rednecks that you was gonna build the wall, but you know that was impossible,” she said. “But they voted for you and you promised them this shit, so now you have to do it.” Trump appears dug in on his insistence that he get $5.7 billion for some 200 miles of barrier along the US-Mexico border in order to sign a bill to fund the government. It’s not clear what, if any, plan he has to negotiate his way out of this. Join the Vox Video Lab Go behind the scenes. Chat with creators. Support Vox video. Become a member of the Vox Video Lab on YouTube today. (Heads up: You might be asked to sign in to Google first.) This isn’t the first time Cardi B has made her thoughts known in the political realm. As Antonia Noori Farzan at the Washington Post notes, she’s previously weighed in on the United Nations’ role in Libya and US gun laws. “I love political science. I love government. I’m obsessed with presidents. I’m obsessed to know how the system works,” she said in a 2018 interview with GQ. In the same interview, she said she comments on world events because she’s genuinely interested. ”Me, I’m always watching the news,” she said. “I’m always looking at it on my phone. I hate when you talk about something that’s going on in the community, people think, because you’re famous, you doing it for clout. But you concerned about it because you are a citizen of America; you are a citizen of the world. If I want to get cool points, I could take a picture with a thong and my ass and y’all gonna give me the same amount of likes. I’m gonna trend even bigger.”<doc-sep>After she skyrocketed to fame with the release of 2017′s “Bodak Yellow,” fans rushed to claim her as an avatar for their own personal political beliefs. A viral Twitter thread that year offered a tongue-in-cheek Marxist interpretation of the lyrics to “Bodak Yellow,” suggesting that “These is red bottoms, these is bloody shoes” could be translated to mean “overthrowing the bourgeoise may be a bloody affair, but the working class will prevail.” Several months later, the singer posted a rant about taxation on Instagram, leading Reason magazine to dub her “your new libertarian hero.” Her vague remarks last April about having a baby because she “didn’t want to deal with the whole abortion thing,” likewise, prompted antiabortion groups to hold her up as a symbol of the movement, even though Cardi has never publicly stated where she stands on the subject.<doc-sep>
Rapper Cardi B got congressmen talking in Washington after she posted a foul-mouthed rant on Instagram about the government shutdown. In a video posted Wednesday night, the 26-year-old called the country a "hellhole right now, all for a "f****** wall." “Now, I don’t want to hear y’all m*****f****** talking about, 'Oh, but Obama shut down the government for 17 days.' Yeah, b****, for health care. So your grandma could check her blood pressure and you b****** could go check your p**** in the gynecologist with no m*****f****** problem.” She added: "I feel like we need to take some action. ... I’m scared. This is crazy. And I really feel bad for these people that gotta go to f****** work to not get m*****f****** paid.” Democrats are going head-to-head with President Trump to reopen the government, which has been partially shut for 26 days, but have avoided giving him money for his wall. Some top lawmakers on the left appreciated Cardi's support and had fun with her outburst. (Trying to decide whether or not to retweet the Cardi B video) January 17, 2019 Omg, I had the same argument with myself 30 minutes ago! January 17, 2019 Ok you do it. And say retweets are not endorsements, especially the language, and I will retweet. January 17, 2019 I had to google that. Fair enough. See you tomorrow Murph. January 17, 2019 Guys, I’m still holding my breath. Are you gonna RT Cardi B or not? January 17, 2019 When Cardi opened Twitter after the Dems' back-and-forth, she tweeted, "Why am I trending?" Cardi has noted that she likes to weigh in on politics, saying in an April 2018 interview with GQ, "I love political science. I love government. I'm obsessed with presidents. I'm obsessed to know how the system works." RELATED STORIES