[2] An explicit song that expresses sexual liberation, "Bickenhead" builds on Cardi B's affinities with Southern rap, while serving as a response to Project Pat's "Chickenhead.
"[3][4] Chickenhead is a derogatory term popularized in 1990s hip hop music that refers to a woman that performs oral sex indiscriminately.
[5] Dion Norman, who co-wrote the sampled song "Bitches (Reply)", stated about "Bickenhead": "I was really amazed that it would be Cardi B that would do the record, especially her being from the Bronx.
It sounds like the song Cardi's been waiting her whole career to make, and she swan dived right into the depths of pearl-clutching crassness that we've come to love her for.
[6] Writing for AllMusic, Neil Z. Yeung felt Cardi B gets "filthy" on the "explicit" track, that "it could make Lil' Kim or Foxy Brown blush.