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Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B defined why she’s together with “WAP” and “Up” on her forthcoming album, citing fan demand and cultural impression.
• She immediately addressed the backlash, saying the tracks “deserve a home” and won’t depend towards first-week gross sales.
• Her sophomore undertaking, ‘AM I THE DRAMA?’, drops Sept. 19 and contains her new single “Outside.”

Cardi B’s sophomore album AM I THE DRAMA? is lastly on its manner, however not with out a little drama of its personal. After asserting the undertaking’s launch date and pre-orders, critics took problem with seeing older hits like “WAP” and “Up” on the 23-song tracklist. However, on Wednesday (June 25), the Grammy Award-winning rapper took to X to clear issues up for the “last and only time.”

“This will be the last and only time I’m gonna address this,” she wrote, explaining that “WAP” and “Up” are two of her “biggest songs.” The Bronx native continued, “My fans have been asking me to put them on an album, and people search for them on [Invasion of Privacy] all the time… They deserve a home.”

Cardi B added, “I let haters make me not submit ‘WAP’ for the Grammys, and at this point, I’m giving my fans what they want! These two songs don’t even count for first-week sales, so what are y’all even crying about?” While she’s proper about standalone singles not contributing to first-week gross sales, they do depend towards RIAA certifications, which explains why AM I THE DRAMA? moved over 1.5 million units stateside on the identical day pre-orders went dwell.

“Do [y’all] say anything when all these [artists] pull out all their little tricks and ponies to sell out??? Exactly,” the hitmaker mentioned. She concluded, “Go cry about it!!!”

The album may also home “Outside,” the extremely anticipated single that Cardi B dropped final Friday (June 20). As Rap-Up previously reported, the observe name-dropped LeBron and Savannah James, A’ja Wilson, and even referenced her new beau Stefon Diggs’ NFL staff, the New England Patriots. AM I THE DRAMA? is about to drop on Sept. 19.