Source: ED Publications PR
By: Dave Manack
Cardi B and the concept of “stripper revenge” – Have club customers become the “bad guys”?
As the Editor-In-Chief of the gentlemen’s club industry’s only business magazine, its only national convention and only national awards show, I really enjoy seeing people who’ve had some attachment to our industry going on to achieve mainstream success. One good example of this is Diablo Cody. After writing the book “Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper” in 2005, we asked Diablo to be the Keynote Speaker at the EXPO in 2006. She did, gave a great speech, had a great time and went on about her way. Just two years later, she won an Academy Award for Best Screenplay for “Juno,” and she was the toast of Hollywood. Of course, I enjoyed telling people, “She was at our EXPO!”
Which leads us to Cardi B. Not only had a “former stripper” become one of the most popular hip-hop performers in the world, she readily embraced her past rather than hiding from it, as so many in her position tend to do. In a recent interview with CBS Sunday Morning, Cardi B reminisced about her days at the Satin Dolls club in Manhattan.
“A lot of women here, they taught me to be more powerful,” she said in that interview. “I did gain, like, a passion and love [for] performing. It made me feel pretty… I’m glad for this chapter in my life. A lot of people always want to make fun of me— ‘Oh, you used to be a stripper!’—I don’t ever regret it, because I learned a lot. I feel like it matured me.”
A stripper-makes-it-big feel-good story, right? Absolutely—until it all came crashing to a halt this past Sunday, March 24th, when she offered a shocking and disturbing revelation on her Instagram Live account. While discussing her past as a stripper, she discussed situations where customers asked her to leave the club and go to a hotel with them. “[I’d say], ‘Oh yeah, you want to f*ck me? Yeah yeah yeah, let’s go back to this hotel,’ and I drugged n****s up and I robbed them. That’s what I used to do.”
Think she was going to apologize for admitting to drugging and robbing men? Think again. Read the rest of the story here:
