*Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s “Bongos” music video cost $2 million to produce, according to the Bronx rapper.
In an interview for Yee’s “Way Up” show, Cardi explained that the original plan was to shoot the video outside of the United States but ended up filming in Malibu due to hurricane season.
“Malibu always [has] paparazzi and everything so we hired about 20 guards, 15 guards just guarding the whole area,” she said.
As Variety reports, the crew “deployed geofencing which issues an alert when a mobile device enters a mapped, pre-established location,” the outlet writes. During filming, Cardi, Megan, and their dancers used special in-ear headphones to avoid having to play the music out loud during production.
“This type of stuff cost a lot of money for the videos and rehearsals every day — it cost a lot of money, it’s a lot of work,” Cardi explained.
In a recent interview with The Breakfast Club, Cardi B said her team initially wanted a Latin artist featured on the song.
“My team wanted to go like more like Latin artists, and I was like, ‘I hear Megan, yeah I hear Megan,” Cardi said. “They’re like, ‘Really? You don’t see it? Like you don’t see this like more Latin?” But I’m like, ‘Right, No I see Megan,’ and then, like exactly what I was like hearing in my head, I sent her the song.”
Meanwhile, we reported previously that Joe Budden has slammed “Bongos,” claiming the single doesn’t have “lasting power.”
“This record don’t seem like it has lasting power,” Budden said on the latest episode of The Joe Budden Podcast, Complex reports.
“It’s that hard-ass beat, the hook is not hooking for me, there’s nothing in it to make it stay, one, and two, I know y’all think Sexyy Red is paying me she’s not, but this commercialized ratchet has passed,” he continued.
Cardi B calls out Joe Budden for interviewing Tasha K & His Recent comments on her “Bongos” Song ???????????? pic.twitter.com/tqVAwkWMmr
— POLO WORLD (@Billionairepolo) September 13, 2023
“It’s ghetto ratchet time. Neither one of them are ghetto ratchet on this song. I think they both have potential to be, and Cardi normally smokes ghetto ratchet, but she’s too big,” Budden added. Listen to his full commentary via the Twitter clip below.
Joe Budden feels like Cardi B & Megan Thee Stallion’s new single doesn’t have lasting power, it sounds like two women who can’t make a song & think they need their old writers back ???????????? pic.twitter.com/e47bLtVB14
— ✨GOT DA SCOOP✨ (@GotDaScoop) September 9, 2023
Overall, Budden thinks the single is a “2-pack of ass” — meaning, it stinks. In the clip below, Budden responds to Cardi B clapping back at his criticism of her new song.
Joe Budden responds to Cardi B not feeling his criticism of “Bongos”. #TheTownMag pic.twitter.com/v3mRhgV7zZ
— TheTownMag (@TheTownMag1) September 14, 2023
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