“Up” by Cardi B

Cardi B let "Up" loose through Atlantic on February 5, 2021, a pop-rap and hip-hop track that later found a home on her second studio album, Am I the Drama?, in 2025. DJ SwanQo, Sean Island and Yung Dza produced it, Leslie Brathwaite mixed it, and she shares the writing with a crew of collaborators, Edis Selmani, James Steed and Joshua Baker among them.

It entered the Hot 100 at number two, and no solo song by a woman rapper had opened that high since Lauryn Hill's "Doo Wop (That Thing)" in 1998. Then it climbed to number one, which made Cardi the only female rapper with more than one solo single to top that chart, "Bodak Yellow" being the first. At the American Music Awards it took Favorite Rap/Hip Hop Song, making her the first artist to take that category three times, and it picked up a Grammy nomination for Best Rap Performance; she performed it at the 63rd Grammys in March 2021.

Written with AI assistance from RockLists chart data, MusicBrainz and Wikipedia.