Arriving with uncanny timing, a day after Cardi B pleaded not guilty to assault in an ongoing case around an incident at a New York nightclub last August, the rapper has dropped an eye-popping new video for her latest single “Press” that features violence, nudity, multiple murders and, wow, lots more.
Clocking in at just three-and-a-half minutes, the video opens with a sex scene apparently involving two women and Cardi’s man, then we see her smoking a cigarette, pulling out a pistol and then fading quickly to black as shots are heard.
Then we’re in a police holding cell where Cardi flirts with a police officer, then a big courtroom drama with irate judges and attorneys, and finally a prison cell where the video concludes with Cardi encountering one of the women seen early in the video and drowning her in a toilet.
Intersperses are nude dancing scenes — with Cardi and the dancers’ privates obscured in a strange hermaphroditic effect — and then a scene with all of the dancers murdered.
In addition to her court hearing Monday, Cardi opened the show at the BET Awards Sunday night with a performance of “Clout,” alongside Offset, and “Press,” in its TV debut. She also appeared at the 2019 Met Gala earlier this month.
