Cardi B Dances To Celebrate Cinco De Mayo, Jokes About Being Considered Mexican

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NEW YORK, USA - MAY 01: Cardi B departs The Mark Hotel to attend the 2023 Met Gala Celebrating, an annual fundraising gala held for the benefit of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's Costume Institute, in New York, United States on May 01, 2023. (Photo by Lokman Vural Elibol/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images)

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Cardi B found that the best way to wish everyone a happy Cinco de Mayo would be to show off her impressive dancing skills. Moreover, she uploaded a clip to Twitter of her busting some moves to a live rendition of "La Chona" by Danny Felix, popping her belly out and hopping along. It's not quite the fantastic fluidity that one expects from a track like that, but we'll take what we can get. Regardless, the recent Met Gala show-stopper faced a lot of people online claiming that she is Mexican, or at least assuming her heritage. After having some fun with people's confusion online, she tweeted out a joke about her presumed nationality.

"We'll never beat the Mexican allegations omg," one fan wrote on the social media platform. Then, Cardi B quote-tweeted a cheeky response. "I mean they claim I'm Mexican... I might as well embrace my new nationality lol." However, the Bronx rapper then deleted her post for unknown reasons, though it's possibly due to people bashing the statement for its potential insensitivity. After all, Cardi faced a lot of criticism in the past for identifying as a Black woman when many others would say otherwise. For the record, she is of Dominican and Trinidadian descent with African and Spanish roots.

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No matter your view on her nationality, at the end of the day, it was just a fun video that she might have put her foot in her mouth over. Still, it must take a toll on her if other events like the Met Gala, for example, already give her anxiety. "Every single time that I got to the Met, it’s fun of course,” Cardi B said in a behind-the-scenes clip from the occasion. “After my first time going to the Met, I always get anxiety. And the anxieties just grow and grow and grow. Maybe because my looks are so spectacular that people just expect every year to be more amazing than the last. And it’s so hard because imagine competing with myself. That is sickening."

Meanwhile, the 30-year-old remains as entertaining as an artist as she does an online personality. Recently, her and her husband Offset recreated the viral "spicy bowl" to fruitful results. Whether she's participating in trends or setting them, everything she does seems to have a dash of fun-loving energy in it despite potential controversy. For more updates and the latest news on Cardi B, come back to HNHH.

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Gabriel Bras Nevares is a music and pop culture news writer for HotNewHipHop. He started in 2022 as a weekend writer and, since joining the team full-time, has developed a strong knowledge in hip-hop news and releases. Whether it’s regular coverage or occasional interviews and album reviews, he continues to search for the most relevant news for his audience and find the best new releases in the genre. What excites him the most is finding pop culture stories of interest, as well as a deeper passion for the art form of hip-hop and its contemporary output. Specifically, Gabriel enjoys the fringes of rap music: the experimental, boundary-pushing, and raw alternatives to the mainstream sound. As a proud native of San Juan, Puerto Rico, he also stays up-to-date with the archipelago’s local scene and its biggest musical exponents in reggaetón, salsa, indie, and beyond. Before working at HotNewHipHop, Gabriel produced multiple short documentaries, artist interviews, venue spotlights, and audio podcasts on a variety of genres and musical figures. Hardcore punk and Go-go music defined much of his coverage during his time at the George Washington University in D.C. His favorite hip-hop artists working today are Tyler, The Creator, Boldy James, JPEGMAFIA, and Earl Sweatshirt.