Yes. Cardi B holds a writing credit on 100% of her tracks, writing her own rap verses. On her second album, Am I the Drama?, she wrote a large share entirely on her own, including songs like 'Up' and 'Hello.' On Invasion of Privacy she co-wrote every track, often with her longtime collaborator Pardison Fontaine and her producers.
Across all 36 tracks: how many Cardi B wrote alone, how many they co-wrote, and how many were written by others. The bracket marks every track they hold any writing credit on.
Share of all 36 tracks where they are personally credited, by role.
Cardi B's writing credit per album, in release order. Hover any bar for the album.
Where Cardi B sits on the scale from a pure performer (0%, sings songs written by others) to a complete author (100%, writes everything). The bright marker is their catalogue authorship score, plotted against other artists on the site.
Reference artists spread across the scale, closest by genre and era.
None of the signature songs above fall in this category.
Covers all 2 studio albums.
No albums from this decade.
Bubble size = tracks worked on together. PF Pardison Fontaine · KR Klenord Raphael · JW J. White Did It · LG Laquan Green · B Boi-1da · MB Marilyn Bergman
Data Insight
Cardi B's authorship profile reflects an artist who is genuinely a hands-on co-writer on her own material, a detail sometimes obscured by her larger-than-life persona and reality TV origin story. On Invasion of Privacy she co-writes virtually every track, bringing lyrical specificity and a first-person perspective that drives the album's commercial and critical success.
Quick Facts
Creative Fingerprint
A rapper who writes her own raps: Cardi B is credited on 100% of her tracks, writing her verses herself, often solo on her second album, and co-writing with collaborators like Pardison Fontaine and her producers on the rest.
The Story
Cardi B (born Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar, October 11, 1992) is a Bronx-born rapper who became one of the most commercially dominant and culturally visible artists of the streaming era, rising from social media personality and reality television star to Grammy-winning rapper in one of popular music's most rapid and unlikely ascents. Her breakthrough single 'Bodak Yellow' (2017) made her the first solo female rapper since Lauryn Hill in 1998 to reach number one on the Billboard Hot 100 with a debut single, a record-setting achievement that announced her arrival on her own uncompromising terms. Her debut studio album Invasion of Privacy (2018) debuted at number one on the Billboard 200, was certified diamond by the RIAA, and won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Album, making Cardi B the first solo female artist ever to win that award. The album's range is remarkable: it moves from the hard street rap of 'Bodak Yellow' to the Latin-inflected club hit 'I Like It' (with J Balvin and Bad Bunny, built on a sample of Pete Rodriguez's 1967 classic) to the vulnerable, slow-burning heartbreak ballad 'Be Careful.' Cardi B's lyrical voice, frank, funny, explicit, and deeply personal, connected with listeners precisely because of its specificity and authenticity, an unfiltered account of a woman navigating love, money, fame, and ambition on her own terms. The 2020 collaboration 'WAP' (with Megan Thee Stallion) became one of the most discussed and streamed songs of the decade.
