Best Life
by Cardi B (featuring Chance the Rapper)

Album: Invasion of Privacy (2018)
Charted: 39
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Songfacts®:

  • This uplifting song finds Cardi B hooking up with Chance The Rapper as they both explain how they continue to live their "Best Life" every day. The track was the first collaboration between the pair.

    "I felt like he was so perfect for the song," Cardi B told Beats 1's Ebro Darden of Chance's contribution. "It's really positive, really energy, something really different for me. He was very easy to work with."
  • Cardi B geeks out in the third verse about meeting Beyoncé and her mother.

    I took pictures with Beyoncé, I met Mama Knowles
    I'm the rose that came from the concrete in the Rolls


    Cardi met Beyoncé and her mom, Tina Knowles at Jay-Z's Made in America Festival, in September 2017, the month that her breakthrough single "Bodak Yellow" first reached the Top 10 of the Hot 100. The Bronx rapper felt that her meeting with Beyoncé was a marker of having arrived as an artist.

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