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The post Cardi B Goes Scorched Earth on Am I the Drama?: Review<\/a> appeared first on Consequence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Asking Cardi B<\/a> to mind her tongue is like asking an oceanic creature to abandon its undersea home. It\u2019s not fucking happening. The Bronx MC lives and breathes controversy, even when she\u2019s not intentionally courting it. Since her 2017 breakthrough single, \u201cBodak Yellow,\u201d<\/a> Cardi B has steadily revealed herself to be the high-profile celebrity of our time, a larger-than-life personality who is just as quick to dress down the average Barb as she is to eviscerate her own peers.<\/p>\n Between a messy divorce, babies (babies, and more babies), rap beefs, internet vitriol, and court cases, Cardi B has remained in the public eye. This is all despite the fact that she hadn\u2019t released an album<\/a> since 2018\u2019s Grammy-winning Invasion of Privacy<\/em><\/a>. Her new album, Am I the Drama?<\/em><\/a>, confirms that yes, Cardi B is<\/em> the reason for all of the chaotic situations she constantly finds herself in \u2014 but is she at fault, or is she just shining too bright? Cardi\u2019s latest project is an offering of proof that she\u2019s a blameless victim of hating-ass bitches and ain\u2019t-shit n****s. It\u2019s up to us to believe her.<\/p>\n In a recent Spotify conversation<\/a> with Destiny\u2019s Child royalty Kelly Rowland, Cardi shed light on the inspiration behind Am I the Drama?\u00a0<\/em>\u201cSometimes, fans or people will be like, \u2018Oh, don\u2019t give them energy,’\u201d Cardi said. \u201c\u2018They don\u2019t deserve your energy,\u2019 or like, \u2018They don\u2019t deserve your clout or your attention.\u2019 And it\u2019s like, nah, you know what? Fuck it. I\u2019mma give it to you. It\u2019s like, fuck it, I\u2019mma give it to you. Because sometimes people be like, \u2018Just ignore, ignore, ignore. Take the high road.\u2019 And it\u2019s like, \u2018Fuck<\/em> the high road.’\u201d If you\u2019ve if been paying even a smidgen of attention, you know that Cardi B\u2019s aversion to going high when others go low is unsurprising<\/a>. This album is her opportunity to get her lick back on everyone who has been praying on her downfall, be it for years or minutes.<\/p>\n The opening track, \u201cDead,\u201d features R&B diva Summer Walker singing more passionately than we\u2019ve heard her in a while, as Cardi raps about her foremost goal of killing the competition: \u201cThey say, \u2018Cardi, you tweaking,\u2019 nah, I don\u2019t be tweaking enough\/ Bitches be doing shit and I be letting it slide and I don\u2019t be bringing it up\/ Bitches be out here telling lies about me and y\u2019all just be eating it up\/ But when I drag her to hell, \u2018Cardi, you evil as fuck!’\u201d On the BossMan Dlow-inspired \u201cMagnet,\u201d Cardi menacingly sharpens a lyrical machete in a pointed attack against JT of the former Miami rap group City Girls. For nearly a minute straight, Cardi shatters the rapper\u2019s image, without a single care or fuck to give.<\/p>\n \u201cPretty & Petty\u201d is unexpected sonically, as it bangs like a song that West Coast newcomer AZ Chike<\/a> would place on his own debut album. But thematically, it\u2019s right on cue, as Cardi uses the entire song to re-escalate her beef with Boston rapper BIA, an artist she\u2019s been targeting since her feature on last year\u2019s \u201cWanna Be\u201d remix<\/a> with GloRilla and Megan Thee Stallion. \u201cName five BIA songs, gun pointing to your head\/ Bow<\/em>, I\u2019m dead,\u201d she raps at the top of the track, before launching into an outright assault based on accomplishments. \u201cYou wanna beef with me, are you sure?\/ Do she even got a BET Award?\u201d (While a BET Award is a high honor in the Black community, it\u2019s sometimes seen as low on the totem pole of awards across the industry.)<\/p>\n Popular Posts<\/p>\n