We might be more than five years removed from Cardi B and Megan Thee Stallion’s raunchy Billboard Hot 100-topping smash “WAP,” but Cardi is keeping its saucy spirit alive in new Saturday Night Live promos.
Cardi B returns to the SNL stage this weekend as musical guest, joining first-time host Alexander Skarsgård for Saturday’s brand-new episode. In new promos, castmember Chloe Fineman deploys an uncharacteristically raspy voice when she tells the duo, “I’m so excited!”
“What’s going on with your voice there, Chloe?” Skarsgård asks, to which she replies: “I’ve been doing extremely Dry January. No liquor, no soda, no juice, no water,” she says, introducing her extreme version of the “Dry January” challenge that many partake in to abstain from alcohol to start a new year.
“No water?” Skarsgård asks. “Yeah! You guys should try going extremely dry.”
“No thank you,” Cardi says politely, adding with a suggestive roll of her tongue: “I like to stay nice and wet.”
“I, too, opt for wetness,” Skarsgård (dryly) adds.
Elsewhere in the promos, Fineman asks Cardi whether her stage name stands for “cartilage and bone” (prompting both the host and musical guest to call for the police) and Skarsgård doing the intros entirely in his native language of Swedish.
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Cardi B is making her second appearance as SNL musical guest, after first hitting the stage in April 2018 to promote her debut album Invasion of Privacy. Now, she’s promoting her most recent album, September’s Am I the Drama?, as well as the accompanying Little Miss Drama Tour, which launches next month in Palm Desert, California, on Feb. 11.
Skarsgård will make his SNL hosting debut this weekend to promote The Moment, the Charli xcx-inspired and -starring mockumentary in which he plays the director of the concert film within the film. The Moment just debuted at Sundance Film Festival and arrives in theaters on Friday via A24.
