Cardi B’s sophomore album Am I the Drama? is lastly right here.
After a number of delays and false begins to the highly-anticipated follow-up to her blockbuster 2018 debut, Invasion of Privacythe Brimcess is bringing all of the drama in her first full-length studio album in seven years.
“Seven years of love, life and loss. Seven years I gave them grace, but now I give them hell,” Cardi stated within the album’s teaser video launched in June. “I learned power is not given, it’s taken. I’m shedding feathers and no more tears. I’m not back, I’m beyond. I’m not your villain, I’m your karma. The time is here, the time is now.”
The 23-track set consists of some acquainted entries, such because the beforehand launched “Outside” and the Jay-Z sampling “Imaginary Playerz.” Other songs, reminiscent of “Up” from 2021, and “WAP” that includes Megan Thee Stallion, are additionally included. Another beforehand teased monitor “Bodega Baddie,” which samples the 2003 merengue hit “Ta’ Buena” by El Prodigio, can be included within the set.
Bardi secured some main names to faucet in with visitor verses reminiscent of Summer Walker, Selena Gomez, Kehlani, Lizzo, Cash Cobain, Lourdiz, and Tyla.
In a uncommon transfer, Janet Jackson is lending her vocals on the monitor “Principal,” making it certainly one of Jackson’s few visitor appearances in latest reminiscence.
“I feel like people are expecting something and it’s not what they expect,” Cardi advised Complex’s Jordan Rose in June in regards to the album. “Even my intro is something that people are not even going to expect from me, and a lot of songs are like that too.”
“I just felt like for a long time I got whooped with fame, relationships, everything,” she continued. “It woke me and tugged me, and people have made so much, like, assumptions about me and I feel like I never get to really pop my shit. Like, I feel like people try to humble me so much … I’ma show you that I’m not to be played with.”
After welcoming her fourth youngster—her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs — Cardi will hit the highway in February 2026 for her her Little Miss Drama Tour, set to kick off after her due date.
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