Cardi B - WAP feat. Megan Thee Stallion

What this video is

Released August 7, 2020, during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, WAP emerged as a landmark assertion of female sexual agency in hip-hop, arriving at a cultural moment of heightened discourse around gender, censorship, and women's bodily autonomy. The song debuted at #1 on the US Billboard Hot 100 with the largest opening streaming week for a song at that time, and sparked widespread debate among cultural…

Why it matters

WAP represents a watershed moment for female trap and dirty rap, combining the lyrical explicitness historically associated with male hip-hop braggadocio with the visual grammar of luxury hip-hop video production. It extended Cardi B's record as the female rapper with the most #1 singles on the…

The director

Colin Tilley (born June 27, 1988) is a Grammy-nominated American filmmaker, music video director, and commercial director, and CEO of Boy in the Castle Productions, born and raised in Berkeley, California. A self-taught director who began his career at age…