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Nothing was even remotely close to Cardi on my year-end list.
"Bandcamp hardcore + Cardi B" is basically my taste profile.
Also, I went to Damaged City the weekend that Invasion of Privacy came out, and bands were banging that album from phone speakers at their merch tables. Cardi played the fuckin Knockdown Center! The idea that that hardcore and Cardi are incompatible is frankly baffling to me.
Still going back and forth on that. The first one listed is "Come Together"/"Something," but then "Something" went to #3 on its own, so it seems like not even Billboard knew what it was doing with that.
I'm kinda inclined to just go with the A-sides, but I also don't like the idea of not writing about "California Love."
1. Terror Squad: True Story
2. Terror Squad: The Album
3. Fat Joe & Remy Ma: Plata O Plomo
4. Remy Ma: There's Something About Remy: Based on a True Story
5. Cuban Link: 24K
6. Cuban Link: Chain Reaction
7. Fat Joe: Don Cartagena
8. Fat Joe: Jealous One's Envy
9. Fat Joe: Jealous Ones Still Envy (J.O.S.E.)
10. A playlist of "Lean Back" 14 times in a row
