Cardi B Announces Long-Awaited Sophomore Album "Am I the Drama?"
Yara Sameh
More than seven years after the release of her Grammy-winning debut album 'Invasion of Your Privacy,' Cardi B has announced that the follow-up is finally coming.
The rapper revealed that her sophomore album 'Am I the Drama?' is slated to arrive on September 19.
She announced the record on social media, along with the
album cover
, which shows her posing against a flock of crows.
Cardi was typically unsubtle about signaling that the album was finally on the way.
In an Instagram
post
on Sunday, she said in a voiceover as glamorous images of herself surrounded by (fake) crows: 'Seven years and the time has come. Seven years of love, life and loss. Seven years I gave them grace, but now, I give them hell. 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 tyrant. The time is here. The time is now.'
The rapper recently told her followers that she had delivered the album to her label, Atlantic.
Last week, Cardi premiered the new track 'Outside,' during a performance at Cannes Lions.
The song officially released last Friday, includes a dig at her ex-husband Offset and name-drops her new partner, New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs.
Cardi opened her performance in Cannes with 'Bongos,' a song she shares with Megan Thee Stallion.
She also presented 'Bodak Yellow,' 'I Like It,' 'Money,' 'Up,' and her and Megan's smash hit from 2020, 'WAP.'
Cardi's second album has been anticipated for many years — there was even speculation around the time of 'WAP'. Throughout that period, she has dropped more than a dozen singles and guest appearances, including spots with Lizzo, Bruno Mars, Shakira, Anitta, Kanye West, Ed Sheeran, Lil Yachty, Glorilla and more.
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