Cardi B responds to “obvious anticipation” for new album: “I promise you it’s coming this year”
nme.comCardi B has responded to the “obvious anticipation” around her upcoming new album, telling fans that it will be “coming this year”.Cards has been working on her second album for six years, and in May offered an update saying she was delaying the release of the record in a now-deleted tweet.“Anyway, NO album this year,” she wrote. “I don’t care.
I’m relaxing this year. [I’m] dropping these features I already committed to and travelling and enjoying my summer.”This was later revealed to be untrue when a representative for the rapper said that an album was still on the cards for this year.
It was also made known that the LP had no title and needed a few more songs added to it.The currently untitled project will be the follow-up to Cardi’s 2018 record-breaking debut ‘Invasion Of Privacy’.
The release won Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammys, making Cardi the first-ever solo female act to win the award.She spoke about the album’s delay in a cover story with Rolling Stone too, saying: “I take my music so fucking seriously that that’s why I don’t put it out. “If it’s not perfect to my ear, if every fucking word doesn’t sound like it’s pronounced right, if the beat is overpowering the words or the words is overpowering the beat, I don’t want to put it out.”Now, on X/Twitter, Cardi has given an update on when fans can expect to hear the new project.
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