Cardi B cleaned up nicely for the 2018 MTV Video Music Awards held at Radio City Music Hall in New York City on Monday. The 25-year-old Bronx rapper wore a crushed velvet fuchsia off shoulder frock for her first red carpet appearance since giving birth to daughter Kulture last month.

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Cardi trolled the MTV audience by pretending to carry her infant daughter out onstage.

Then she opened the blanket to reveal a MTV moon man award, which MTV is now calling a “moon person” trophy to avoid a liberal meltdown in Hollywood.

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