--- title: Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed Her Carpool Karaoke description: On her episode of Carpool Karaoke with James Corden, rap star Cardi B had a bit of a driving accident. canonical: https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/ author: Raisa Bruner article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2018-12-14T20:53:39.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:56:27.899Z og:title: Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed the Carpool Karaoke Car og:description: The "Bodak Yellow" rapper crashed James Corden's car while filming og:url: https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea9116b19611500b/6989418a929fad8645bf252f/Screen-Shot-2018-12-14-at-3.23.18-PM.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1678 og:image:height: 944 og:image:alt: cardi-b-carpool og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed the Carpool Karaoke Car twitter:description: The "Bodak Yellow" rapper crashed James Corden's car while filming twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea9116b19611500b/6989418a929fad8645bf252f/Screen-Shot-2018-12-14-at-3.23.18-PM.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed the Carpool Karaoke Car With James Corden > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically.  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 14, 2018 8:53 PM UTC  YouTube  by [Raisa Bruner](https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/)  ## Raisa Bruner Dec 14, 2018 8:53 PM UTC When [Cardi B](http://time.com/5438809/nicki-minaj-cardi-b-feud/) jumped in a car with James Corden to record her episode of the Late Late Show host’s viral hit segment [Carpool Karaoke](http://www.thedrive.com/news/21715/let-it-be-james-corden-breaks-down-with-a-beatle-in-latest-carpool-karaoke-episode), Corden was probably thinking most about making sure he had prepped enough to match the [_Invasion of Privacy_](http://time.com/5455075/best-albums-2018/) rapper line for line on her chart-topping, tongue-twisting songs like “Bodak Yellow” and “I Like It.” But Corden was in for a surprise when he decided to put Cardi behind the wheel for a driving lesson, as a preview for Monday’s episode shows. The singer may make spitting rhymes look easy, but she’s somewhat less comfortable when it comes to using a steering wheel. “I hit something!” she admits after the video shows her backing up into some flags in a parking lot. “You think?” Corden responds drily. Cardi also shouts out some advice to kids at a playground as they drive by: “Stay in school! Listen to your mom! Or you won’t be getting no Christmas gifts!” she recommends. (She is a new mom herself, having [given birth](http://time.com/5373093/cardi-b-vmas-2/) to baby Kulture, her daughter with Migos rapper Offset, in July.) Since putting out her debut album in the spring and giving birth in the summer, Cardi has also released a single this fall, “Money,” and made select performance appearances. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/"},"headline":"Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed the Carpool Karaoke Car With James Corden","datePublished":"2018-12-14T20:53:39.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:56:27.899Z","description":"Cardi may not belong behind the wheel","url":"https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","carpool karaoke","Cardi B"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea9116b19611500b/6989418a929fad8645bf252f/Screen-Shot-2018-12-14-at-3.23.18-PM.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Raisa Bruner","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/raisa-bruner/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltea9116b19611500b/6989418a929fad8645bf252f/Screen-Shot-2018-12-14-at-3.23.18-PM.png?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"cardi-b-carpool","caption":"","creditText":"YouTube","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/5480357/cardi-b-carpool/","name":"Cardi B Quite Literally Crashed the Carpool Karaoke Car With James Corden"}}]}] ```