AS far as American Pie legend Don McLean is concerned, the day the music died was when Cardi B released WAP.

The 75-year-old music icon has sparked the most unlikely showbiz feud ever by taking aim at stripper-turned-rapper Cardi’s explicit track with Megan Thee Stallion, which slid in at No1 last September.

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Cardi B in the music video for her hit WAP – featuring Megan Thee Stallion Credit: Refer to Caption
The American singer fumed: “That’s what we have on the radio and that’s what’s going to win Grammys.

“If that’s not decadence I don’t know what is. It’s disgusting, it’s horrible. And nobody wants to say anything.”

Referring to Cardi’s political sitdown with Elle magazine in August, Don told the Greatest Music Of All Time podcast: “Then they have her interviewing Joe Biden – I don’t even know what to say.

“I’m an unreconstructed Fifties boy and I’m proud of it . . . but I have my own measurement of things and the way I go about stuff.”

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American Pie singer Don McLean has slammed Cardi B’s WAP as ‘disgusting’Credit: AP:Associated Press

In fairness, Cardi does have an impressive list of accolades. She was the first female to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album with debut record Invasion Of Privacy in 2019, and was also the first female rapper to pass one billion streams on Spotify.

She also boasts four MTV VMA awards and was named Ascap Songwriter of the Year in 2019, which I imagine Don took particular exception to.

Get a mop, this could get messy.