Cardi B as soon as revealed it was an actress who impressed her to “dream big”

Cardi B has develop into one of the crucial prevalent feminine rappers ever. Aged 31, the emcee (actual identify Belcalis Almanzar) has already accrued a Grammy, seven Billboard Awards, 14 BET Awards, and 4 VMA’s. Nonetheless, the Bronx native labored her means up from the Highbridge tasks and was closely impressed by one explicit actress.

In 2021, whereas presenting an award on the Folks’s Alternative Award, Cardi unveiled that since she was a younger lady, Emmy-award-winning actress Halle Berry had at all times impressed her to “dream big”.

As Cardi B bestowed the Folks’s Icon Award upon Berry, she proudly instructed the group, “Halle Berry is one of my heroes. She’s strong, she’s brilliant, and she was the first woman of colour to win an Academy Award for Best Actress.”

She continued, “Little girls like me dream big, [Berry was] inspiring us to reach the stars and break records of our own.” The actress was honoured with the award for her work in movie and her activism. Berry has starred in movies corresponding to Boomerang, Monster’s Ball, the X-Males franchise, New 12 months’s Eve, Kingsman: The Golden Circle, and others.

In a wierd flip of occasions, after receiving the award, the 57-year-old actress admitted that the love was mutual and he or she was a terrific admirer of Cardi’s. Making a heartfelt acceptance speech, Berry started, “To have Cardi B present you with an icon award — I don’t think a moment could be bigger in my life.”

She continued, “Thank you, everyone. Thank you. The only reason I have been here for 30 years, still working, doing what I love on my own terms, redefining myself decade after decade, is because of all of you, every single one of you!”

Cardi had loved the luxurious of working with Berry earlier than the ceremony when she recorded a song for the soundtrack of the movie Bruised, Berry’s directorial debut. Singing the rapper’s praises to Billboard journal, Berry disclosed, “Cardi, being so of her word, didn’t say, ‘Oh, it can’t happen.’ She went the extra mile, and you made sure that we got the rights to use the record. I can say, honestly, not everybody would have done that, and I so respect her. She said yes, and she stood by her word.”

You possibly can watch Halle Berry settle for her Folks’s Icon Award within the video beneath.