Cardi B may be dropping an album in 2024 after all, despite her comments to the contrary just earlier this week.
As the latest Rolling Stone cover girl, Bardi opened up about the long-awaited follow-up to 2018’s Invasion of Privacy and was even working on it throughout the interview with the famed publication.
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And while the conversation took place in March, Rolling Stone reached out to the Bronx rapper’s team amid her recent declaration to no longer drop her sophomore effort on Tuesday (May 14) – and her rep assured that “an album in 2024 is still the plan.”
It would appear then that Cardi made the since-deleted post to Twitter/X out of spite, as she was upset about her fans hounding her for new music.
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In the tweet, Cardi had agreed with a fan who said people don’t appreciate the Bronx rapper’s transparency, and that she should fall back from social media for the time being.
“Exactly and I tell myself this all the time..and I hate that I fall back and start interacting again and it bites me in the ass…” Cardi replied. “anyway NO album this year I don’t care I’m relaxing this year.. Dropping these features I already committed to and traveling and enjoying my summer.”
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As for the album, Rolling Stone reports that, as of March, it was partially done, but still needed an intro, at least three more songs a title, features, and a rollout plan.
As for what to expect on the upcoming album, Cardi said that she’s “a different person every single day. When I’m in a good mood and I’m with my friends, [I’m] like, ‘Damn, I want my shit to be played in this club.’ But then I might be mad with my man, so it’s like now I want to do this song. But then I want to do a pop record. I want to do my sing-y shit.”
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Cardi B previously assured fans that a new album would be coming in 2024 – marking six years since the release of her record-breaking debut album.
In March, the “Bodak Yellow” rapper showed that she had tons of songs, including some recorded as long ago as early 2023.
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The Instagram video was captioned: “January 2023 ….I really got like 100 songs,” and the video showed a screen full of tracks for a song labeled “Cunty,” all recorded in late January of last year between 4 and 5 in the morning.
“January 27 of 20-20-fuckin’-three. I be working on this shit at 5 a.m. — you know I’m a night owl,” she said, referring to her work on that track. “I promise y’all this year: I’m not letting my anxiety, I’m not letting what haters say, I’m not letting what fans say… If I do a song, Imma just fuckin’ drop it.
“Well, I got no choice, because I’m dropping my album this year, so stay tuned for the announcement.”
In March, Cardi gave fans a taste of what they can likely expect from her sophomore release, with her single, “Enough (Miami).” The track arrived two weeks after she dropped the “Like What (Freestyle)” sampling Missy Elliot’s 1999 hit “She’s a Bitch.”
Cardi followed it up with a feature on Shakira’s “Puntería,” the opening track from her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran album, which hit shelves mid-March.
