- I'm Cardi B's mom.
- [Director] Are we rolling on that?
(laughs)
- Oh I'm sorry, (laughs)
I'm Mayor Allison Madison and most people know me
from the Cardi B memes.
- The small community elected it's first African American
and first female Mayor, Derrion Henderson reports.
- That's just awesome to me, (laughs)
and I guess I'm happy about that.
He was asking me how I felt about it
and what were my plans for the city.
And I was laughing on the interview
and I think that's where that came from
because of the fact I was laughing and she normally
has her tongue out.
When I did the interview I just thought that was it
it wasn't gonna be anything else, so when the memes started
happening, I mean, I was like, oh God,
first of all where did it come from
and then where is it going?
The first time I seen my face all over the internet
I was excited, I couldn't believe it,
and then I thought, Derrion, why did you do this to me?
Okay, here I am in this small town, a house wife,
then I am a mayor, but I'm compared to Cardi B, a rapper,
that's famous, that's rich, that's cool.
You know, it's really, it is cool.
- Have you seen this meme of this older woman
they say looks like you?
- You know what?
- Is she related to you in any way?
- She's not.
- My daughter sent it to me
and she said look, look on Facebook, look, you're famous.
- And she's from like Ohio or something.
- You know I'm not from Ohio, I really am somebody,
I am a mayor.
- Now why would you all do that to me.
- Say 50 years, so you'll be 73.
- When they showed my picture I'm like,
I look pretty good on the picture.
If I was gonna say anything to Cardi B I would tell her
you go look good in 40 years.
(laughs)
- She fake kind of look at me (mumbles)
- There are similarities with me and Cardi B.
Where she came up from, and she's always been honest
about what she was.
And as far as I'm concerned to be a good leader
you need to have some personal feelings in it
and as far as Cardi is concerned,
she does Cardi.
- I like to make hits.
I like to make money, I don't really give a (beeps)
about being lyrical, I don't give a (beeps) about this
and that, if that shit don't work for me, I don't care,
I like to make (beeps) that's gonna make me (beeps) money.
- She's not worried about what people think,
what they say, she is who she is.
I've had a little adversity you know,
and that comes with the territory,
men don't like the fact of a woman being over them,
no domination.
- Tell her nothing, she's a woman you fool.
- People have a mindset that it's a man's world
and it's not like that.
There's qualified women, there's some very intelligent women
and why stop progress because of the fact it's a woman?
You can do this, nothing can stop you but you.
- [Burgundy Shirt] Him's, that's Offset
and Cardi after she took him back
the 15th time.
(laughs)
- [Allison] Thank you baby.
I promise I won't do it no more.
(laughs)
- She's gonna be the mayor forever, I already told her that.
They love here, nobody else is gonna run.
The guy that she actually ran against
had a lot of negative things to say,
just because she was a black woman.
It's a little bit of sour grapes.
But you take it in stride because at the end of the day,
the work speaks for itself.
The same thing with Cardi, her work is speaking for itself,
you know no matter what anybody has to say
about who she is and where she came from,
- [White shirt] You can't take away from her.
- [Burgundy Shirt] You cannot take away
from what she's accomplished.
- And it goes to show, like the same with Cardi,
it's just like, you see how genuine she is,
you see how people love her because she's herself.
- When God is for you, it doesn't matter
about what people think about you
or what the world thinks about you.
Whatever he has for you nothing can stop it,
even for Cardi.
- [Allison] If there's any woman out there that wants to run
for political office I think you should do it.
I think they should, don't let the fear of what this one
will think about you, what this man can say
or this woman, because there's both ways,
you know just do it.
Pave the way, be the first,
that's all, just be the first.
(laughs)
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