Cardi B hints at run for office. She wouldn’t be the first chart-topping politician

Rapper Cardi B hinted at running for office in a series of tweets late Sunday night, saying she loves government, “even tho I don’t agree with Government [sic].”

The New York City-based rapper, whose real name is Belcalis Almanzar, said on Twitter that she feels she could be a part of Congress if she goes back to school.

“I just need a couple of years of school and I can shake the table,” she tweeted.

Cardi B wouldn’t be the first musician-turned-politician. John Hall of the band Orleans served as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives for New York’s 19th district from 2007 to 2011, becoming the first Democrat to hold that office in nearly a century.

Perhaps the most famous example is the late Sonny Bono, who made a series of hit songs in the ‘60s as Sonny and Cher. Bono was elected to the House in 1994, and he remains the only member of Congress to have had a No. 1 pop single on the Billboard Hot 100 chart.

Cardi B has become an outspoken voice in politics since her hit “Bodak Yellow” soared to the top of the charts in 2017. She posted a video on Instagram criticizing the federal government shutdown in 2019, and has repeatedly praised former President Franklin Roosevelt and First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt. The rapper also posted criticism of President Donald Trump’s actions in Iran, saying at the time she was filing for Nigerian citizenship.

Cardi B has endorsed Democrat U.S. Sen. Bernie Sanders for president, and she joined him for a campaign video last year.