Celebrate Cardi B's 30th With A Throwback: Stream "Lick" Featuring Offset

It's Bardi Day!

BYHayley Hynes
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Cardi B celebrates another trip around the Sun today (October 11), but it's not just any birthday for the mother of two – it's her 30th, which marks a major moment in life for a woman, especially one who's achieved as much as the rap diva has managed to throughout her illustrious career.

To commemorate the big day on our site, we're throwing it back to one of the Bronx-born beauty's breakout hits – and early collaboration with her now-husband, Offset – with 2017's "Lick."

The braggadocious song appeared on Gangsta Bitch Music Vol. 2 and has long remained a favourite amongst fans, particularly for the sheer confidence you can hear in Cardi's voice as she raps, "Look at me, look at me / They ain't like me before, now they bookin' me / The glow got bitches so shook at me / They like, 'Chef Cardi B, what you cookin' B?'"

While she's gone on to release plenty of music since then, the world is still eagerly awaiting the birthday girl's follow-up to her Grammy Award-winning Invasion of Privacy project, which we'll hopefully receive a release date for in the coming months.

Stream "Lick" below, and let us know what your favourite Cardi B throwback track is in the comments.

Happy Birthday, Bardi!

Quotable Lyrics:

Look at me, look at me
They ain't like me before, now they bookin' me
The glow got bitches so shook at me
They like, "Chef Cardi B, what you cookin' B?"

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Hayley Hynes is the former Weekend Managing Editor of HotNewHipHop, she stepped down after two years in 2024 to pursue other creative opportunities but remains on staff part-time to cover music, gossip, and pop culture news. Currently, she contributes similar content on Blavity and 21Ninety, as well as on her personal blog where she also offers tarot/astrology services. Hayley resides on the western side of Canada, previously spending a year in Vancouver to study Fashion Marketing at Blanche Macdonald Centre and Journalism at Mount Royal University in Calgary before that. She's passionate about helping others heal through storytelling, and shares much more about her life on Instagram @hayleyhynes.