NEED TO KNOW
- Cardi B’s album Am I the Drama? takes purpose at a number of folks together with ex Offset, BIA, JT, Ice Spice and extra
- The one particular person she name-drops particularly is Boston rapper BIA on “Fairly and Petty”
- The album dropped on Sept. 19
Cardi B is not biting her tongue.
On Friday, Sept. 19, the rapper dropped her first studio album Am I the Drama? in over seven years — and he or she did not maintain again on the name-drops.
Starting with “Magnet,” Cardi, born Belcalis Almánzar, seemingly reignited beef with Metropolis Women rapper JT. On the music, Cardi calls out a “faux buddy” who kicked her whereas she was down.
“Now let’s speak about this hating-ass bitch, ungrateful-ass bitch,” Cardi, 32,raps. “I do not care, met any person, gotta say it-ass bitch / Pretend friend-ass bitch, a clown-ass bitch.”
Cardi and JT, who beforehand collaborated on “Twerk,” started their feud in 2022 when JT posted about GloRilla’s “Tomorrow 2,” which featured Cardi, however didn’t point out her. Since then, JT has additionally seemingly dissed Cardi on “No Bars” in 2023 and “Sideways” in 2024. Throughout an trade of posts on X, Cardi referred to as JT a “lapdog.” On “Magnet,” she calls her a “tail-wagging ass bitch.”
Within the second verse, Cardi drags JT’s boyfriend Lil Uzi Vert — who started utilizing they/them pronouns in 2022 and infrequently attire androgynously — into the state of affairs by saying that although her ex Offset was untrue to her, the couple by no means shared equipment, intimate or in any other case.
“All that dick ridin’, nonetheless ain’t get no feature-ass bitch (Haha) / She simply mad she obtained a n—- she be sharin’ luggage with (Shh) / My n—- cheat, however I do not stick no dildos in his ass, bitch (Haha) / You look a sizzling mess (Hahaha), simply impressed-ass bitch,” Cardi raps.
On the identical monitor, Cardi referred to as Ice Spice a “snow-face bitch” and requested “whose spot is you takin’? My spot’s eternally, ho, I am like a Dalmatian.”
This line is seemingly a response to Ice Spice’s 2024 music “BB Belt,” which followers believed was a diss monitor about Cardi as she rapped: “Fallin’ behind like, bitch, choose up your tempo. It was humorous ’til I took her place.”
Up subsequent, on “Man of Your Phrase,” Cardi breaks down the top of her marriage to Offset — from whom she filed for divorce in July 2024 — and stated “I realized my lesson.”
“I actually hope you discover love, I hope you discover a good spirit / I hope she fulfill your wants and all the pieces that I did not / And I imply that, it is a number of strain when a bitch an icon,” she raps. “I do know issues might’ve been excellent in a unique lifetime / However I actually do want you the perfect, proceed being a winner / And if I had one want, I solely want you’d’ve been a person of your phrase.”
On “What’s Goin’ On,” Cardi will get extra particular in regards to the motive behind their cut up. To start with of the monitor, she notices that he is treating her in a different way. Then, after letting “s— slide so many occasions,” she decides to stroll away.
“Looks as if day-after-day, a brand new lie (Proper) / You f— something with two eyes (Details) / How are you going to deal with me like I ain’t s—? (How?) / N—-, on our marriage ceremony day, you cried (You cried) / You wrote down some lovely vows (After which) / Gave my first lovely little one (After which) / Informed me you was quiet for all of those hoes / Come to search out out you the one loud (Huh?).”
On “Bathe Tears,” Cardi once more accuses Offset of seeing different ladies behind her again — and he or she will get to a degree the place she’s “sick of fightin’, ‘sick of cryin’.”
“This s— is embarrassin’, I’m not no common bitch / You wanna play marriage, then you’ll be able to have these carats then (Have it then) / I put my child in her automotive seat then be out of right here / Right here we go once more, these some bitches you do not know once more (Huh),” she raps. “Should be a magician, placing photos in your cellphone once more / Do not inform me these hoes is pals and also you out along with your bros once more / For all of this, may as properly simply be alone once more.”
In her most direct music on the album, “Fairly and Petty,” Cardi drags BIA after the rapper got here for her on 2024’s “SUE MEEE?” rapping, “Thought your ass was for the tradition, you simply tryin’ to trip the wave / You need to be residence along with your youngsters ’trigger bitch, you converse like second grade.”
Cardi opens the music by noting, “Title 5 BIA songs, gun pointin’ to your head.” She additionally insults her seems and calls her “Diarrhea BIA”: “I might reasonably die on the surgical procedure desk earlier than I gotta stroll round right here lookin’ such as you.”
Throughout an look on The Breakfast Membership on Sept. 19, Cardi additional defined why she determined to handle BIA immediately on the monitor.
“You talked about my youngsters tryna be cute,” Cardi stated. “She did her little diss and it was trash… I might’ve [left] it at that, however all the pieces on social media is gonna be seen. When my youngsters develop up at some point and so they see that you simply talked about them, they’re gonna ask me, ‘So what you stated? What you probably did [in response]?’ I’m not gonna inform my youngsters, ‘I felt like she took the excessive street trigger she misplaced, trigger folks wasn’t on her facet.’ Nah, I’m not sayin’ that to my youngsters. I’m [gonna be] like, ‘You see how I violated?'”
She continued, “She thought that I used to be copying her and I had a dialog together with her. First, we was cursing one another out. Then I had an actual dialog together with her and I used to be like, ‘Pay attention, I am not copying you. I do not even have a look at you. You are not an individual that I have a look at or I am impressed by.'”