Cardi B is far removed from her days as a stripper and her time on the series ‘Love & Hip Hop: New York.’

Now, as she seeks and finds credibility as a rapper, she celebrates the success of her jam ‘Bodak Yellow’ which now seems to be on its way to rocking the Billboard Hot 100’s Top 5!

Doing so without the benefit of a featuring act Cardi’s brilliant feat carves out a glistening path for the album she is recording to support the single and the career her label, Atlantic Records, hopes to build out of it.

Why do you think Afro-Latina starlet is faring so well?