Key Takeaways:

• Cardi B compares releasing AM I THE DRAMA? to childbirth, highlighting the emotional depth of the method.
• The album was accomplished after she recorded over 60 songs, narrowing it all the way down to tracks she really linked with.
• Cardi B is prepping for a meet-and-greet tour and North American run following the album’s launch.

Dropping AM I THE DRAMA? has Cardi B feeling like she’s about to present beginning over again. On Monday (Sept. 15), throughout a preview of her sit-down on the “Jennifer Hudson Show,” the rapper revealed the flood of feelings she’s experiencing forward of the album’s arrival.

“I am so overwhelmed, like I’m excited and I’m very nervous, but it’s so many different feelings. I just cannot wait to get it out [of] the way,” Cardi B stated, earlier than joking, “It’s like I’m pushing another baby or something.”

Hudson replied that the “I Like It” rapper’s musical “baby” has been “waiting like seven years to come out,” since her earlier LP, Invasion of Privacy, dropped in 2018. The host added, “Our albums [are] like our babies,” which Cardi B wholeheartedly agreed with.

When requested why she selected to drop the album now as an alternative of, say, a couple of years after her Grammy Award-winning debut, Cardi B gave a surprisingly easy reply: “It was completed.” Notably, she recorded roughly 60 songs for the mission, though when data like “WAP” and “Up” first got here out, she solely had 4 that she really preferred.

“It was completely completed. I was like, ‘This is what’s missing out there.’ I feel like I touched on everything that I wanted to touch,” she defined to Hudson. “It’s like, ‘I’m done… I can’t possibly fit no more.’” Other songs on the LP embody “Outside” and “Imaginary Playerz,” the latter sampling JAY-Z’s “Imaginary Players.”

Once AM I THE DRAMA? drops, Cardi B will head out on a meet-and-greet tour earlier than launching a North American run spanning greater than 30 cities. “I’m already preparing for it. I’m at the gym and I’m taking dancing classes already,” she shared. The trek will wrap up its stateside leg in April 2026, although it’s unclear if a European stretch will observe.