But instead of flat-out denying the charges, Cardi stood her ground. Nicki Minaj’s loyalists came out of the woodwork, accusing Cardi of using an uncredited ghostwriter. Shortly after the release of the single “Be Careful,” old video surfaced online of Fontaine rapping a verse from the song. It was around this time that fans started to take note of his name-though not for reasons he and Cardi would’ve liked. Fontaine has writing credits on both songs.
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The week of Invasion’s release, two of its singles, “I Like It” and “Be Careful,” cracked the top 15 on the Billboard 100. With this spring’s Invasion of Privacy, the success of “Bodak” proved not to be a fluke-for Cardi or for Pardi. “We was just like two kids at the candy store,” Pardi says of the release’s aftermath. Its success defied both Cardi's and Pardi’s expectations. 1 on the Billboard 100 by a solo woman rapper. It was a fine start.Īnd then came “Bodak Yellow.” Beyond dominating summer ’17, the song made history: It became the longest-running No. The pair collaborated on some warmly received early efforts. And with Cardi’s large following and even larger charisma, Pardi’s words landed in a way they had yet to coming out of his own mouth. His wit and swagger on the mic-"Think I love your baby mama, her pussy get dumb wet / I give your child a stepbrother then teabag your drum set” goes one line from “Oyyy”-naturally lent themselves to Cardi’s brazen persona. Now, music is more about the relation to the person than the music anyway.”Īny gaps Cardi may have had in technical skill or experience, Pardi helped fill in. “So I knew there had to be something there.
“I knew she was a personality on Instagram and that people already liked her,” Pardi says. And when Cardi had a notion that she wanted to get serious about music, she turned to Pardi. Pardi would bring Cardi to Newburgh, sometimes booking her to perform for special occasions. Thereafter, Pardi and Cardi-whose names rhyme just by coincidence-started spending more time together. So much so that she recorded a video of herself twerking to Pardi’s song “Oyyy,” which sent Pardi’s tally of followers through the roof. A mutual friend had introduced Cardi to Pardi’s music, and she was a fan. At the same time, around 2014, Pardi was trying to make a name for himself as a rapper, and he would sometimes perform at Sue’s. But they were a match made in Sue’s Rendezvous, a Mount Vernon gentleman’s club that, for those with a predilection for dancers “thick like a malted milkshake with honey and molasses,” was its own celestial paradise.īack before her days on VH1’s Love & Hip Hop, Cardi was a dancer at the since-shuttered club. Pardison Fontaine and Cardi B were not a match made in heaven. And Fontaine makes the rounds, shaking hands, signing autographs, and posing for pictures. Someone jams an aux cord into their phone and plays his thumping 2017 single, “For the Win,” on a small, overmatched set of speakers. With his race-car-size red Versace sneakers and matching flannel, the sparkling ice around his neck and wrists and on his fingers, and the trademark orange knit beanie atop his head, he’s the most striking figure in the room by a long shot. A few dozen local Pop Warner football players, their coach, and their parents are there waiting for the town’s most exciting export, the rapper and songwriter Pardison Fontaine.įontaine, who is 6’5” and has distinctive box braids, walks out of his Jeep and into the center, and it’s as though he brings Oz into Kansas.
Inside, the beige rec room is set up with rows of plastic fold-out tables and aluminum fold-up chairs. On an overcast day in late October, Newburgh looks especially desaturated, as though it’s awaiting color-correction.Īround noon, a conspicuously new Jeep Wrangler winds through the ramshackle town and parks in front of Newburgh’s Activity Center.
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Convenience-store Pepsi signs are washed out, home windows are boarded, and yellow billboards advertise their own availability. The small upstate New York city (really, a big town if we’re calling a spade a spade) is one of the most dangerous in America. From there, things don’t get much less dead. The first thing you see when you drive into the city of Newburgh is a cemetery.
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