Cardi B has introduced the follow-up to her 2018 debut, Invasion of Privateness. Her first album in seven years is known as Am I the Drama?, and it drops September 19 through Atlantic. The 23-track effort will embrace “Outdoors,” “Up,” and “WAP.” See the album cowl under.
Cardi B returned final week with “Outdoors,” her first solo tune in additional than a yr, produced by Charlie Warmth and HeyMicki, with co-production from DJ SwanQo. Two days later, she teased a brand new announcement. “Seven years, and the time has come,” she mentioned. “Seven years of affection, life, and loss. Seven years, I gave them grace, however, now, I give them hell. I discovered energy will not be given; it’s taken. I’m shedding feathers and no extra tears. I’m not again; I’m past. I’m not your villain; I’m your karma. The time is right here. The time is now.”
Earlier than “Outdoors” got here “Sufficient (Miami),” which, in flip, was her first formal solo single since 2021’s “Up.” Within the meantime, she has launched quite a few collaborations, together with 2023’s “Bongos,” with Megan Thee Stallion, and “Put It on da Flooring Once more,” with Latto; 2022 songs with Kanye West, Glorilla, Kay Flock, and Rosalía; and, in 2021, collaborations with Lizzo (“Rumors”), Normani (“Wild Facet”), Migos (“Sort Shit”), and Summer time Walker (“Bitter”).
Cardi B’s greatest hit since Invasion of Privateness, after all, was the Megan Thee Stallion–assisted “WAP,” from 2020. That single was not submitted for Grammy consideration—although they did carry out it on the 2021 gala—as a result of, representatives mentioned, a Grammys marketing campaign was brewing that yr round a brand new Cardi B album. The file by no means materialized to qualify. On the finish of 2022, Cardi B responded to the leak of purported (and finally phony) new materials with a brief clip of an unidentified, unreleased monitor. “HERE some scraps since yall STARVING 😫😂😂😫😂😫😫,” she wrote.
Outdoors of music, Cardi B has spent a few of her put up–Invasion of Privateness time stumping for Bernie Sanders, interviewing Joe Biden, and appearing within the comedy movie Assisted Dwelling—which she finally exited, inflicting manufacturing to shutter. In 2020, she starred within the Fb Watch collection Cardi Tries, the place she examined her efforts at studying new abilities: ballet, gaming, ranching, stunt diving, and extra.
Examine Invasion of Privateness in Pitchfork’s “The 200 Greatest Albums of the 2010s.”
