Cardi B Is Dropping Her 2nd Album This Year Despite Saying She Wasn’t

Cardi B is dropping her 2nd album this year, despite her telling fans off that she wasn't going release any more music. She previously took to X (formerly Twitter) and called out the Bardigang for "complaining" about the status of her upcoming album.

She declared: "Anyway NO album this year I don’t care I’m relaxing." Despite saying her second album wouldn't be coming this year, she told Rolling Stone on Thursday (May 16) that her sophomore album is still scheduled to drop this year.

Last month, Cardi B celebrated the sixth anniversary of Invasion of Privacy on social media. She not only marked the milestone, but she teased her sophomore album and said the sound will be "so different from what everyone is expecting and I’m sooo excited.”

On picking beats for her next album, she told Rolling Stone that she had two choices: an "inspirational type of record" or something that is "going to s--- on you bitches." She chose the latter. As for what's left to complete the untitled album, the artist says she still needs an intro, three more songs, features, and a rollout plan. She also teased she wants to do a pop record.

She's been doing “aggressive promotion” for her newest single, “Enough (Miami).” The track was released two months ago. Until she has the album ready, she isn't going home, and "being out here is my punishment."

Having spent the past three months recording in L.A. and Miami, she finds herself missing her young children, Kulture, 5, and Wave, 2, whom she shares with Offset. Though the couple has had an up-and-down relationship, he has been supporting her music career. In February, he reassured her, “Stop being scary and drop the album, s--- goes crazy.”

Elsewhere in the interview, Cardi reflected on what it was like when she first started out in the industry with Rolling Stone. She said that record labels weren't interested in representing new rap artists, especially women. After she got signed with Atlantic Records, "They started signing new female rappers after I got signed," she said. "Whether some bitches could be the greatest rappers [or] they just make good music — at the end of the f---ing day, guess what? They’re in your playlist right now.”