Cardi B wants to get paid for the remix of her coronavirus rant

While the rest of us huddle in place as society grounds to a halt due to the novel coronavirus covid-19, Cardi B is trying to get paid.

The irrepressible rapper stayed in the spotlight this week after a remix that prominently featured a chunk of her profane rant about the pandemic quickly went, well, viral. And, as always, Cardi would like her check.

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“The fact that this damn coronavirus song is charting on iTunes. Hold on … let me hit the DJ up and [her record label] Atlantic so I can get my damn coins,” she wrote on Instagram Tuesday.

Keeping your Cardi B coronavirus remixes straight does require some sleuthing, however: DJ iMarkkeyz put up the “original” on March 14, which is, for roughly 75% of its runtime, just Cardi yelling “Coronavirus, s–t is getting real!” over a fairly standard trap beat and some sound effects, including, cheekily, a cough.

Apparently cracking up in his own self-quarantine, DJ Snake released his own remix of Cardi’s rant, one that gets slightly more creative, sampling and pitch-shifting some of Cardi’s vocals into an Ibiza-worthy drop.

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