Cardi B’s Met Gala debut left the internet breathless

It’s safe to say that 2018 has so far been the year of Cardi B, which means she had big expectations to fill for her first-ever Met Gala in her hometown of New York City Monday night. The annual event, co-hosted by Vogue and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, invites pop culture’s biggest celebrities to dress up in a museum-oriented theme and attend a huge gala party in conjunction with an exhibit. Over the years, it’s come to be one of Hollywood’s biggest (and most daring) fashion nights.

If Cardi B doesn’t show up to the Met Gala looking like a whole Latina Guadalupe prayer candle I’m gonna be pissed.

— 20DaysofJune (@20daysofJune) May 7, 2018

Luckily, the rapper knocked it out of the park. Cardi currently has nine simultaneous songs on the Billboard’s Hot 100 chart, a baby on the way, and “came through drippin” in head-to-toe Moschino with designer Jeremy Scott on her arm.

Fans on Twitter were impressed by her interpretation of the night’s “Heavenly Bodies: Fashion and the Catholic Imagination” theme, to say the least:

CARDI B LOOKS ABSOLUTELY STUNNING! SHE’S SHOWING THESE GIRLS HOW IT’S DONE AT HER FIRST MET BALL #MetGala pic.twitter.com/7oIujv1tuI

— taylor (@taylorrxs) May 7, 2018

Cardi B in her Met Gala fit looks like the goddess you pray to to get knocked up. I feel like I might get pregnant just looking at her. Lawd.

— Bae O’Wulf (@KiaJD) May 7, 2018

https://twitter.com/WeAreCardiB/status/993653496716152832

https://twitter.com/BellissimaBree/status/993633229226893312

Cardi B letting us ALL know who’s QUEEN OF THE DAMN Bronx. Eowwwwww –#MetGala pic.twitter.com/zO1kACutxy

— Strong Black Lead (@strongblacklead) May 8, 2018

How can I recreate Cardi B’s met gala look for my pregnancy shoot?

— Kris (@kris_wya) May 8, 2018

https://twitter.com/WeAreCardiB/status/993848272648368128

She even managed to squeeze in a photo-op squashing beef rumors between her and fellow New Yorker Nicki Minaj:

Nicki Minaj, Jeremy Scott and Cardi B at the 2018 #MetGala / “Visitation”, from Altarpiece of the Virgin (St Vaast Altarpiece) by Jacques Daret, c. 1435 pic.twitter.com/V5MKBYoxvu

— rei kawakubo (@reimagneaux) May 8, 2018

Queen Cardi reigns on.