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Key Takeaways:
- Cardi B defined why she’s together with “WAP” and “Up” on her forthcoming album, citing fan demand and cultural influence.
- She instantly addressed the backlash, saying the tracks “deserve a house” and won’t depend towards first-week gross sales.
- Her sophomore venture, ‘AM I THE DRAMA?’, drops Sept. 19 and consists of her new single “Outdoors.”
Cardi B’s sophomore album AM I THE DRAMA? is lastly on its means, however not and not using a little drama of its personal. After asserting the venture’s launch date and pre-orders, critics took problem with seeing older hits like “WAP” and “Up” on the 23-song tracklist. Nevertheless, on Wednesday (June 25), the Grammy Award-winning rapper took to X to clear issues up for the “final and solely time.”
“This would be the final and solely time I’m gonna handle this,” she wrote, explaining that “WAP” and “Up” are two of her “largest songs.” The Bronx native continued, “My followers have been asking me to place them on an album, and other people seek for them on [Invasion of Privacy] on a regular basis… They deserve a house.”
Cardi B added, “I let haters make me not submit ‘WAP’ for the Grammys, and at this level, I’m giving my followers what they need! These two songs don’t even depend for first-week gross sales, so what are y’all even crying about?” Whereas she’s proper about standalone singles not contributing to first-week gross sales, they do depend towards RIAA certifications, which explains why AM I THE DRAMA? moved over 1.5 million models stateside on the identical day pre-orders went dwell.
“Do [y’all] say something when all these [artists] pull out all their little methods and ponies to promote out??? Precisely,” the hitmaker mentioned. She concluded, “Go cry about it!!!”
The album can even home “Outdoors,” the extremely anticipated single that Cardi B dropped final Friday (June 20). As Rap-Up beforehand reported, the observe name-dropped LeBron and Savannah James, A’ja Wilson, and even referenced her new beau Stefon Diggs’ NFL group, the New England Patriots. AM I THE DRAMA? is ready to drop on Sept. 19.