1. Get Up Ten: Has Cardi Destigmatized Sex Work for Artists?
2. Drip: The Sociology of High Fashion & Hip-Hop
3. Bickenhead: Pussy in Popular Music
4. Bodak Yellow: Astrology and the Phenomenon of "Bodak Yellow"
5. Be Careful: A Brief History of Cheating in Popular Music
6. Best Life: 2014-2018 The Rise of Black Girl Magic
7. I Like it: The Latino Influence on Hip-Hop Culture
8. Ring: The Power of Femme Duets
9. Money Bag: Out of Necessity, Good Taste, and Disrespect, Aretha Franklin invents the "Money Bag"
10. Bartier Cardi: Explorations of the Femme Gaze in Pop
11. She Bad: BBLs and Hyper Femininity in Hip-Hop
12. Thru Your Phone: The Parallel Line Between Telephone Tech and Music Fandom
13. I Do: What Does a Femme Hip-Hop Matriarchy Look Like?

Ma'Chell Duma's work has long centered on sex-positive, intersectional feminism, and pop culture. As the founder of the award-winning STACKEDD Magazine she created the first femme and nonbinary centric publication in Seattle.

Her work has included columns on style, brunch & cannabis. Her first love is long form music writing.

Duma's childhood goals were to live in New York City, become a music scribe, and marry Slash.

She has, so far, accomplished two of the three.

The elusive apex of critical praise and commercial success is a metric achieved by a select few. In 2020 Cardi B has become synonymous with "record breaking" in the new millennium. Whether it's streaming, charting, views, likes, retweets or shares Cardi dominates. Cardi B's ascension to stardom is also pure 21st century; from welfare kid to unapologetic stripper, to reality TV persona, to social media maven, to a household name delivering one of the consummately executed albums in Rap History, it's easy to imagine future critics noting popular music as before and after the rise of Cardi B.
This in-depth look at Invasion of Privacy features a track-by-track breakdown of the album, with an accompanying conversation or essay from a collection of voices about a topic each song addresses. It explores the album's multicultural musical influences, technical elements of production, and the producers on the record. It includes a summation of awards and note the record's chart shattering success--going 5x Platinum while establishing Invasion of Privacy as the longest charting record by a female rapper in history.