Cardi B Wonders If Phones Are ‘Listening to Us’ and ‘Reading Our Minds’

Cardi B wants fans to know she’s concerned about whether phones are “reading our minds.”

In a playful, perhaps joking social media update, the Grammy-winning Invasion of Privacy artist first made it clear she’s “really not trying to be a conspiracist” before launching into a succinct breakdown of her phone suspicions.

“I’m really not trying to be a conspiracist but I’m starting to think these phones are not just listening to us, they also reading our minds,” Cardi told fans in an X post shared early Friday. “Government, don’t come get me.”

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Hilariously, albeit perhaps depressingly, a slew of replies to Cardi’s X update were just people asking Grok to either explain the post or directly inquiring about whether it too was partaking in such activities.

Tweet by Cardi B expressing concern about phones potentially reading minds, with an anxious emoji. — Image via Cardi B on X

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Cardi didn’t elaborate further. In just under a month, she’s set to release her long-awaited Invasion of Privacy follow-up. Titled Am I the Drama?, the new album arrives seven years after Cardi’s studio debut and features the HOV-sampling single “Imaginary Playerz.” For that song’s video, Cardi enlisted Patientce Foster as a co-director.

Speaking about the seven-year gap between Privacy and Drama with Apple Music’s Zane Lowe this month, Cardi expressed a desire to “come back sooner next time around.” Still, the wait sounds like it was necessary for Cardi to both “find balance” in her life while also chasing songs that would “please” her in the long term.

“You’d be surprised,” Cardi told Zane. “I got like 80 songs that I did probably these past seven years. Three weeks later, I don’t love it. I don’t want it. I feel stupid it. It sounds dumb. … I really went through a crash that nothing was pleasing me.”

Am I the Drama? launches Sept. 19.

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