Cardi B has formally introduced the discharge date and canopy artwork for her long-awaited sophomore album. The Bronx-born rap diva broke the information through social media on Monday, June 23: her new album is known as Am I The Drama? and it’ll drop on Sept. 19. It’s been seven years for the reason that launch of Cardi’s hit debut, Invasion Of Privateness.
“Seven years, and the time has come,” Cardi stated within the teaser for Am I The Drama? earlier within the week. “Seven years of affection, life, and loss, seven years I gave them grace. However now, I give them hell. I discovered energy’s not given. It is taken. I am shedding feathers and no extra tears. I am not again, I am past; I am not your villain, I am your karma. The time is right here. The time is now.”
Cardi dropped the album’s first single “Outdoors,” final week. The quilt artwork for Am I the Drama? Is appropriately dramatic: with Cardi B in a crimson physique go well with and matching fishnet tights, holding onto the heel of certainly one of her platform pumps. There’s additionally a raven resting on her shoe as extra of them swarm round her.
The album will embody previously-released Cardi hits “Up” from 2021 and 2020’s “WAP” with Megan Thee Stallion. Information of the official Am I The Drama? launch date led to stories that the album has already offered a couple of million models—months earlier than its launch. In keeping with Chart Knowledge on X (previously Twitter), the venture has already offered over 1.5 million complete album models in the US, attributable to together with two enormous hits, “Up” and “WAP.”
Cardi was not too long ago honored with the 2025 American Society of Composers, Authors and Publishers Voice of the Tradition Award. The 32-year-old acquired the award at a non-public ceremony in Los Angeles on June 8.
“Being acknowledged for the influence my songs have had on the tradition means every little thing to me,” Cardi B stated in an announcement. “I’ve all the time wished my platform and my music to remain true to who I’m and encourage others to do the identical, so this honor is particularly significant.”
