{"id":2036329,"date":"2025-09-20T04:46:17","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2036329"},"modified":"2025-09-20T04:46:17","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T04:46:17","slug":"cardi-b-returns-with-long-awaited-sophomore-album-am-i-the-drama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/cardi-b-returns-with-long-awaited-sophomore-album-am-i-the-drama\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Returns With Long-Awaited Sophomore Album &#8216;Am I the Drama?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-article-body=\"true\">\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link \" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/tag\/cardi-b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Cardi B;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\">Cardi B<\/a>\u2019s sophomore album <em>Am I the Drama?<\/em> is finally here.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After multiple delays and false starts to the highly-anticipated follow-up to her blockbuster 2018 debut, <em>Invasion of Privacy<\/em>, the Brimcess is bringing all the drama in her first full-length studio album in seven years.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cSeven years of love, life and loss. Seven years I gave them grace, but now I give them hell,\u201d Cardi said in the album\u2019s teaser video released in June. \u201cI learned power is not given, it&#8217;s taken. I&#8217;m shedding feathers and no more tears. I&#8217;m not back, I&#8217;m beyond. I&#8217;m not your villain, I&#8217;m your karma. The time is here, the time is now.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/shop?utm_source=yahoo&amp;utm_medium=syndication&amp;utm_campaign=shop2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:COMPLEX SHOP: Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what's next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"><b>COMPLEX SHOP:<\/b> Shop the brands you love, anytime and anywhere. Uncover what&#8217;s next. Buy. Collect. Obsess.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The 23-track set includes some familiar entries, such as the previously released \u201cOutside\u201d and the Jay-Z sampling \u201cImaginary Playerz.\u201d Other songs, such as \u201cUp\u201d from 2021, and \u201cWAP\u201d featuring Megan Thee Stallion, are also included. Another previously teased track \u201cBodega Baddie,\u201d which samples the 2003 merengue hit \u201cTa\u2019 Buena\u201d by El Prodigio, is also included in the set.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bardi secured some major names to tap in with guest verses such as Summer Walker, Selena Gomez, Kehlani, Lizzo, Cash Cobain, Lourdiz, and Tyla.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In a rare move, Janet Jackson is lending her vocals on the track \u201cPrincipal,\u201d making it one of Jackson\u2019s few guest appearances in recent memory.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI feel like people are expecting something and it&#8217;s not what they expect,\u201d Cardi told Complex\u2019s Jordan Rose in June about the album. \u201cEven my intro is something that people are not even going to expect from me, and a lot of songs are like that too.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cI just felt like for a long time I got whooped with fame, relationships, everything,\u201d she continued. \u201cIt woke me and tugged me, and people have made so much, like, assumptions about me and I feel like I never get to really pop my shit. Like, I feel like people try to humble me so much \u2026 I&#8217;ma show you that I&#8217;m not to be played with.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">After welcoming her fourth child\u2014her first with boyfriend Stefon Diggs \u2014 Cardi will hit the road in February 2026 for her <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"link  yahoo-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/cardi-b-announces-little-miss-141852095.html\" data-ylk=\"slk:her Little Miss Drama Tour;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;outcm:mb_qualified_link;_E:mb_qualified_link;ct:story;\">her Little Miss Drama Tour<\/a>, set to kick off after her due date.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\"><em>ComplexCon returns to Las Vegas on October 25\u201326, 2025, with over 300 brands and live performances by Young Thug, YEAT &amp; Friends, Peso Pluma, Central Cee, Ken Carson, and more.<\/em> <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.tixr.com\/groups\/complexcon\/events\/complexcon-las-vegas-2025-138594?utm_source=article&amp;utm_medium=complex&amp;utm_campaign=260630_complexcon2025_evergreenarticle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Get your tickets now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Get your tickets now<\/a><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n<h3 class=\"mb-4 text-lg font-bold\">Related News<\/h3>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/music\/articles\/50-greatest-rap-songs-sex-165805002.html\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><\/div>\n<p><\/a><figcaption class=\"relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5\">\n<p><span>The 50 Greatest Rap Songs About Sex<\/span><\/p>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">,<\/p>\n<figure class=\"relative mb-4\"><a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"ct:story;elm:img;itc:0;\" class=\"stretched-box\" href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/entertainment\/celebrity\/articles\/cardi-b-says-offset-type-134124558.html\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"relative\"><img alt=\"Offset and Cardi B stand together, smiling, in front of a pink and black backdrop. 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