Cardi B isn’t backing down from her resolution to incorporate a few of her greatest singles on her upcoming album.
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The rapper took to X on Wednesday, June 25, to deal with the web chatter surrounding her long-awaited album, Am I The Drama? Whereas many followers had been simply pleased to see that the previous actuality star is lastly releasing one other venture after seven years, others had been centered on the truth that two older singles had been already on the tracklist.
Although Cardi has but to launch a follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut album, Invasion of Privateness, she hasn’t been absent from the music world, releasing a number of chart-topping singles within the meantime. Two of these, “WAP” and “Up,” are set to seem on Am I The Drama?, which raised some eyebrows from “haters” accusing the artist of together with them solely to pump up album gross sales.
“This would be the final and solely time I’m gonna deal with this,” Cardi started in her message by way of X. “‘WAP’ and ‘Up’ are two of my greatest songs, my followers have been asking me to place them on an album.”
She went on to say that “individuals search” for each singles “on a regular basis” on her debut album, Invasion of Privateness, which was launched in 2018, insisting, “They deserve a house.”
“I let haters make me not submit ‘WAP’ for the Grammys and at this level I’m giving my followers what they need,” she continued, declaring that these singles won’t contribute to the album’s first week gross sales. “So what are yall even crying about??? Do ya say something when all these artist pull out all their little tips and ponies to promote out??? Precisely…Now allow them to eat cake. Go cry about it!!!”
“WAP,” Cardi’s first collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion, made historical past as the primary feminine rap collaboration to debut at No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100. “Up” reached No. 1 on the Billboard Scorching 100 for per week, even scoring the rapper a Grammy nomination for Greatest Rap Efficiency on the 2022 Grammys.
The New York native launched her third single from the album, “Exterior,” on Friday, June 20, after debuting it at a Spotify occasion at Cannes Lions two days prior. Am I the Drama? drops on Friday, Sept. 19.
