Cardi B Says Her ‘Cockiness Is Being Born Again’ Ahead of Album Release

Cardi B won’t rest until she settles the score with some of her rivals.

To promote her long-awaited sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, the Grammy winner was a guest on the August 22 episode of Apple Music 1’s The Zane Lowe Show. With Cardi undergoing relationship issues and alleged feuds with fellow women in rap, the artist spoke on the “drama” she plans to stir up in her new era.

“I really like to do my things very colorful. I’m a very colorful person. But it’s just like this past year, I feel like something kind of was dying in me,” the “Imaginary Playerz” artist told Lowe around the ten-minute mark of the video below. “My humbleness, me trying so much to be unproblematic, me trying to avoid drama, avoid the disses, avoid the bitches, avoid the talks, it’s like that s**tis dying, that’s dying out in me.”

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“Because I’m really about to show you, bitch, that you are not fucking with me,” Cardi continued, adding that her “cockiness is being born again.”

“And not only that, but it’s like my life, my relationships, everything, it’s like that s**tis dying now too,” she said.

Cardi also expressed that she’ll no longer give “chances” to those who want to see her “nice” side despite hassling her.

“It’s like, ‘Oh, just ignore it, be the bigger person.’ That s**tis dying,” she continued. “Now it’s like I feel like I gave y’all too much grace to think that y’all could f**kswith me. And it’s like that s**tis dead, bitch. Now I’m going to embrace that.”

“You wanted that, bitch. Now I’m going to give it to you,” Cardi insisted. “And I hope you could take it when I motherfucking give it to y’all. That’s how I feel, for real. You see that I’m getting kind of angry?”

Amongn the “so much drama” that Cardi went through over the last year, the Bronx native called out “writer’s block” and her estranged husband, Offset, “doing some bullshit.” Since filing for divorce from the former Migos rapper last August, Cardi and New England Patriots wide receiver Stefon Diggs have stepped out on the regular.

Singles “Outside” and “Imaginary Playerz” have given fans a taste of Am I the Drama?, which releases on September 19.

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