Enough album speculation is enough! Cardi B’s second album is indeed coming out this year — take it from Rolling Stone. The magazine profiled Cardi for its June cover, usually a surefire sign of an album to come. Cardi had indeed promised that album earlier this spring, but just a few days before the cover, she got in a high-profile Twitter fight with a fan over the album. “Anyway NO album this year I don’t care I’m relaxing this year,” she declared on May 14.

But Cardi’s publicist confirmed to Rolling Stone that the album is coming in 2024, and she deleted the tweet. “I take my music so fucking seriously that that’s why I don’t put it out,” she told the magazine. “Because 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.” (Her still-husband Offset has been more encouraging: “Stop being scary and drop the album, shit goes crazy,” he’s told her.)

So CB2 isn’t finished just yet. When Cardi sat for the cover, she was still working on a final few songs, and the record needed a title too. It sounds like it’ll be just as varied as Invasion of Privacy. Cardi has been recording pop tracks and rap bangers, and even said her “whole album would sound like drill” if she had the choice. (

After this project, she wants to record a full album in Spanish, plus some songs inspired by Madonna’s Erotica and “Justify My Love.”) She’s also been working with fellow Bronx rapper Cash Cobain, and mentioned a collab with DJ Khaled. Okay, maybe that one doesn’t need to make the album.

Cardi B scraps plans for album this year as she unleashes rage on fans

Cardi B backpedaled on her promise to release an album this year following a series of back and forth with her fans.

The 31-year-old singer appeared to be triggered by a fan’s post on X, formerly Twitter, where they mocked her former statements about the upcoming album.

The 31-year-old singer appeared to be triggered by a fan’s post on X, formerly Twitter, where they mocked her former statements about the upcoming album.

“‘I’m so excited to put out new music.’ ‘I can’t wait to drop my album.’ ‘Wait until I drop this song.’ ‘Album coming soon’,” they wrote.

The WAP singer couldn’t hold back and went on to engage in a lengthy back and forth with the fans, as she pushed back against the pressure.

She also accused the fan of gaslighting her to boost their own ego, insinuating she belongs to the fandom of her rap rival Nicki Minaj.

In response to another fan suggesting the singer to “pull back from social media platforms,” Cardi B have her final stance on the prospective release of the album.

“Exactly and I tell myself this all the time ..and I hate that I fall back and start interacting again and it bites me in the a**,” the Bodak Yellow rapper claimed. “anyway NO album this year I don't care I'm relaxing this year ..Dropping these features I already committed to and traveling and enjoying my summer.”

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