According to Vibe we may not be getting a Cardi B sophomore album.
The rapper shared on social media that she will be holding her anticipated release until possibly next year.
In screenshots of now-deleted posts on X shared by HipHopDX, the Grammy-winning musician explained her plight.
“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 a**…,” detailed the Bronx native after a fan discussed her social media engagement. “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.”
Cardi B says no new album in 2024: “I’m relaxing this year” pic.twitter.com/csO4DtQGMV
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) May 14, 2024
So far this year, Cardi B has dropped the singles “Enough (Miami),” and “Like What (Freestyle),” signaling a potential album roll-out.
In fact, the “Like What” music video, directed by Offset, warns that “this is just the beginning… stay tuned.” Both tracks follow her 2023 “Bongos” collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion.
In August of last year, the “Bodak Yellow” performer shared an update on the progress of her pending album during an interview with Vogue México y Latinoamérica.
“So stay tuned because it will be released very soon,” explained the rapper in a translated copy of the conversation. “I also have plans in the world of cinema. In fact, I have plans to do everything I can: fashion, branding, I want to do it all, honey,” the mother of two explained.
Cardi’s Rolling Stone Cover
Cardi is on the cover of Rolling Stone and during her editorial, they shared that even though Cardi claimed the album will be released next year it’s still slated for 2024.
When we meet this March night in Los Angeles, Cardi is, in fact, working earnestly toward completing it, but there’s a lot left to do: It needs an intro and at least three more songs. It needs a title, it needs features, and it needs a rollout plan. “Being out here is my punishment,” she says. “Until I have the album ready, I’m not going home.”
Having spent the past three months recording in L.A. and Miami, cities that are functionally office buildings for her, Cardi is homesick for her bustling mansion just outside of her hometown of New York.
“When I come to L.A., I be like, ‘I’m ready to get shit done,’ ” she says. “Then, eight days in, my mind starts missing home, feeling lonely, and then I be like, ‘Girl … ’ ” — as if confronting herself — “I miss my kids.”
Brunson, who has been by her side since 2016, says making music involves a “roller coaster of emotions” for Cardi. “When we good, we knocking them out. Verse after verse, hook, ad-libs. I’m like, ‘You’re done quick. You sure?’ But when she’s going through it, it’s going to be a long day.”
Cardi holds herself to exorbitant standards. She wants the album to have a wide reach, but also reflect that she’s a mosaic of a woman. “I’m a different person every single day,” she says.
“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.”
More than anything, Cardi wants to prove once and for all that the past six years haven’t happened by luck or hype, and she’s working painstakingly, anxiety-inducingly hard to do so.
