Hello, this is Sarah's great aunt Nancy. This week on the show, NPR political reporter Danielle

Kurt Slaven and reporter for Marketplace from American Public Media, Kimberly Adams.

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From NPR, I'm Sarah McCammon. It's been a minute.

Sam Sanders is enjoying the week off, which means I got to pick this song. We'll talk about it in

a second. But first, I want to say hello to my guest, Daniel Kurt Slaven from NPR's Washington

desk. We do a total of 12 from our days together on the NPR politics podcast. We do.

And joining us from American Public Media's Marketplace, Kimberly Adams, good to see you.

Likewise. So this song, this is I Like It by Cardi B.

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been out for a few weeks. You've probably heard it. But it hit number one this week.

And if you recognize it from maybe a long time ago, it's because it's a remake of the 1967 hit.

I like it like that.

Do you guys recognize this? Oh, yeah. The song? Oh, yeah. From my workout mix.

Absolutely. Well, and also don't forget, jock jams in the 90s.

Mix this song as well. That's right.

I think that was in my like drive to work mixed in the early 2000s, which makes me feel so old.

But this song is significant for a couple of reasons. First, Cardi B is now the first woman,

the first female rapper to have two number one hits. And as Layla Kobo wrote in Billboard this week,

the bigger story is the fact that that second number one, I like it, is a fully bilingual song,

where Cardi B wraps in English and her two fellow artists, Bad Bunny and J Balvin,

rap and Spanish. And she says out of a 13 track album featuring a bunch of options,

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