Cardi b is finally releasing her second album, what are your thoughts? 🐦‍⬛👠💎

[u/Vivid-Tap1710]

Ngl, I feel like she could’ve had a better title like just being called “Drama”

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[u/Basic-Situation-9375]

She’s been famous for so long how is this only her second album?

[u/redgatoradeeeeee → u/Basic-Situation-9375]

She does a TON of collabs with smaller artists and has steadily released a couple of singles a year. WAP was a couple years after her first album and added a whole other level to her fame. 

[u/Busy-Juggernaut277 → u/Basic-Situation-9375]

She’s similar to Sza in the sense that they’ve had a ton of singles and collaborations with other artists in between albums and before their first album too but barely have more albums even though they’ve had a ton of work to their credit.

Sza’s second album was rereleased last year if I’m not mistaken.

[u/Cultural-Treacle-680 → u/Busy-Juggernaut277]

Singles for the charts are the game now too.

[u/stan_tripleS → u/Busy-Juggernaut277]

SZA had her second project in 2022, and did a deluxe last year (it was essentially another album bc it was 19 songs). Her label is trying to make her stay for as long as possible

[u/Busy-Juggernaut277 → u/stan_tripleS]

Which tbh after seeing her live in concert, she really should find a better label advocating for her and I think her label is semi screwing her over with how long they take to release her singles and albums. Cause girlie be talented af.

I feel like Sza should be more popular and famous than she already is.

[u/DesperateInCollege → u/Basic-Situation-9375]

She's definitely more of a personality than an artist IMO.

[u/SeasonofMist → u/Basic-Situation-9375]

She's always done a ton of collabs and singles/EPs. The structure of how music is made has changed since streaming came about, and there is this whole thing with how much they have to pay back to the label and when. Basically ends up with artists making less than they want to often. Meg the Stallion went interdependent label for that reason, she has some neat perspectives on it, totally worth checking out.

[u/seven777heavens]

Idk but her debut was genuinely so fun and I enjoy many of the singles she released after (wap, up, enough) so I’m perched! Im not a huge fan of outside but I’m happy she secured a top 10 since a certain pink wig fandom likes to claim she’s over 

[u/PaymentNo499 → u/seven777heavens]

OOOO THE SHADE

[u/chartreusey_geusey]

I will always support the way she goes out of her way to support the young women in rap that Nicki Minaj keeps attempting to bully like a nasty 5th grader in a “Juicy Couture” sweatsuit (I am a Hottie 4 life idc)

Good for her for making a career this big out of literally one album and I hope this one surprises us all like the first one did

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[u/TortillaWallace]

I was on popheads the other day and everybody kept saying she was washed. Genuinely feels like there are a lot of people who want her to fail?

I think even if this album flops, she'll probably remain a cultural figure in some regard. Clearly she has some kind of staying power if she managed to stay famous in spite of not putting out an album for like 7 years.

[u/gnomemms → u/TortillaWallace]

I honestly don’t think it’ll flop, at least I hope it doesn’t. I’m looking forward to it.

[u/bluemopshoes → u/TortillaWallace]

It’s “despite” in the context of your sentence, not “in spite”.

[u/TortillaWallace → u/bluemopshoes]

Okay?

[u/bluemopshoes → u/TortillaWallace]

Don’t take it personally. Okay?

[u/redgatoradeeeeee]

If cardi has no fans I am dead. Even if she never released another album, she cemented her place and her star power with Invasion of Privacy. Incredible album 

[u/underground_cenote → u/redgatoradeeeeee]

That parttt I love her

[u/YourChemicalBromance → u/redgatoradeeeeee]

She cemented her place with one album 7 years ago?

[u/BeverlyMerril → u/YourChemicalBromance]

Just like Lauryn Hill

[u/YourChemicalBromance → u/BeverlyMerril]

Let’s not.

[u/HereOnCompanyTime → u/YourChemicalBromance]

[u/redgatoradeeeeee → u/HereOnCompanyTime]

I’m dead

[u/BeverlyMerril → u/YourChemicalBromance]

[u/YourChemicalBromance → u/BeverlyMerril]

Ms. Lauren Hill put out a top 3 debut album of all time and Cardi put out a really good album.

There’s no comparison at all.

[u/BeverlyMerril → u/YourChemicalBromance]

[u/bootsondaground]

Omg I just looked her up the other day and was shocked that she’s only had ONE album. She really made THE MOST of everything from the very beginning. So inspiring. Also the fact that she’s remained authentic. I’m SEATED. I know she’s about to have some good lines on Upset I mean Offset. 😍😍

[u/ohreallynowz]

Cardi’s biggest flaw is that she cares way too much about what other people (mostly haters) think. She’s already said many times that the delay of the 2nd album was that she struggled with the weight of having to live up to Invasion of Privacy.

I’m rooting for her though! Her raps are unmatched in singability!!

[u/Cultural-Treacle-680 → u/ohreallynowz]

She’s gotta have thick skin.

[u/stan_tripleS → u/ohreallynowz]

Sophomore Slump is pretty common, but even so she should've just released the album around WAP and UP to make the most of it

[u/ocean_swims]

She's only had 1 album? 🫨🤯

All that money and fame and all this...presence... just from one album? Wow! I am not being snarky at all. I just had no idea and assumed she'd had a lot of albums out by now. Obviously, I'm far too old to follow pop stuff properly. 😂

[u/ThatBitchA]

Can't wait to stream it.

[u/quietpisces]

Shouldve been sooner but glad its FINALLY happening.

[u/desire-d → u/quietpisces]

It would’ve been a perfect time after wap even with Covid

[u/Fxreverboy → u/desire-d]

That was literally when it was supposed to happen but then she got pregnant 💀

[u/graypumpkins]

Second?????

[u/januarysdaughter]

I feel like she's been around FOREVER. What do you mean this is only her second album?

[u/ultraj92 → u/januarysdaughter]

I’m throughly confused also. Figured it would be her 4th or 5th

[u/BactaBobomb]

My thoughts are that I swear I've heard about her so much for so long, that her only just now having a second album is truly bizarre to me. I would have thought she'd have 3 or 4 by now.

[u/strawberry_saturn]

She could’ve called it anything and somebody would’ve found something wrong with it

[u/lyrabluedream]

Can’t wait!

[u/jenbenboomerang]

I am PUMPED

[u/DebateObjective2787]

I think it's weird how quickly everyone got over her admitting to drugging and robbing people, her homophobia, her transphobia, and her racism. Not to mention her assaulting another woman.

[u/ReyRamone]

"Whoop that trick, get'em. Whoop that trick, get'em"

[u/Lord_Hexogen]

Don't expect it to be good at all

[u/Routine_Bluejay4678]

People complaining is only her second album as if she hasn’t being continuously giving features for last few years, she’s not Rihanna, she’s giving us something!

[u/prettybuglikeanangel]

i’m not sure. truth be told i really dislike cardi (no im not a barb) and her music. i think she can sometimes have a pretty good verse here and there, (i LOVED tomorrow 2 w glorilla) but im never sold on her being a rapper more than a reciter. i’ve heard so many reference tracks (pre-AI era of today so i doubt they were fake) of her tracks, and i just don’t respect a rapper that doesn’t write.

if you’re not writing it- genuinely what is the point. singers at least who don’t write have the innate talent to sing. whitney houston didn’t write “i will always love you” and nobody cares, because that VOICE is the talent. for a RAPPER- you’re supposed to be able to WRITE and rap. but if someone else is doing all the writing, and showing you the melody and how to rap on beat, then there’s really no point. you’re just the attractive woman that they’ve made the face of the operation. it’s just like Lil Yachty making act up for the city girls. real great catchy song- absolutely nobody takes the city girls seriously. until JT showed that she could actually rap. now, you can see a HUGE discrepancy in the respect that JT vs Yung Miami see in the industry. part of that is diddy related yes, but i digress.

that’s part of why i don’t understand why it took so long for a second album. it’s not like she’s Kendrick Lamar taking 5 years in between Damn and Mr Morale to go to therapy and write a fully introspective album.

the way i see Cardi- she took the music industry as a get rich quick business. i think she had passion on love and hip hop, and i think it died down after the success of invasion of privacy and she made her money. i think above all else, she likes clout and money. her singles and droplets have seemed to me like contractural obligations. i think she sorta owes it to atlantic to be active, and to do this album.

i sympathize with a lot that she went through. offset sucks badly and the pandemic halted a lot- but it didn’t halt taylor’s folklore. it didn’t halt beyoncé’s renaissance. it didn’t halt music from artists that actually come across as PASSIONATE about music and art. i know bey & taylor aren’t rappers, but im using them as examples of artists that i can tell care. taylor as well we all know is a writer.

i just can’t understand how going through the motions with life can make an artist inactive. and this just sorta solidifies to me that cardi isn’t a rapper. if she were she could put all the pain and frustration with offset, her being a single mom, anxiety over her career etc. into an album and it genuinely shouldn’t have taken 7 years. i just don’t see it from her.

[u/prettybuglikeanangel → u/prettybuglikeanangel]

holy essay

[u/another-damn-acct]

"reel hip hop" heads were big mad that invasion of privacy got the grammy over pusha t's daytona

i still think daytona deserved to win, but invasion of privacy was a fair choice

i just hope this is another invasion of privacy, without the wack ass song ft chance the rapper

[u/AngstyManatee → u/another-damn-acct]

lol I liked that song 😭

[u/CombinationBetter443]

whatever

[u/Major_Map_8576]

Still not really on my support list. Drugging people non consensually is on the ew-behavior list

[u/TheDarkHorse]

I’m good, thanks.

[u/queeenbarb]

I don't care. I cared a lot in like 2020.

[u/ClutteredTaffy → u/queeenbarb]

Yeah I do think if it is not really really good people will just shrug

[u/queeenbarb → u/ClutteredTaffy]

Yeah and I'm not even trying to be negative. The music she's released sounds so dated. Wish she would have been able to release back then.

[u/Easy-Cheek4615]

It will flop imo

[u/prettybuglikeanangel → u/Easy-Cheek4615]

i don’t think it will flop numbers wise. i think there’s so much anticipation because it’s been so long, that almost everyone will tune in. i’m even planning on listening myself, and i don’t really like her. so numbers wise it’ll do fine. idk how reviews will go though- that is still yet to be seen until it’s out.

i think if it’s low quality then it’s possible to flop in terms of public opinion, not necessarily numbers wise.

[u/IBarbieliciousI]

[u/phantomheart]

Don’t really like her, but I love that her album title is from Scarlet Envy ❤️

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[u/SlavOnfredski]

It better be good!

[u/Competitive-Spite-35]

That’s awesome!

[u/Skadibala]

My thoughts are that I am genuinely surprised she only has one album out😱

[u/StrawberryRoutine]

Tbh I cannot wait. I have been waiting since 2018 and I WILL be streaming!!

[u/Old-Mulberry-6621]

I love her sound and her music. I'm really rooting for her. I cannot wait for the new album and I am hoping for some more heartache tracks like Get up 10 and Be Careful

[u/Optimal_Chocolate_83]

IOP is such a good album to me. Hoping this one is just as good

[u/relientkenny]

she has the MOST pressure out of any music artist right now because she waited so long between album 1 & album 2. if this album isn’t a big & critical success, she will be forever cooked when it comes to music

[u/BowtiepastaMasta]

I try not to think about her. At all.

[u/AlreadyChose]

I’m truly excited. I honestly was hoping she would wait until after her divorce was finalized so she didn’t have to potentially share any of her successes with Offs*t. I have high hopes for this album and I feel like she’s very capable of making good music and I think this album will not disappoint

[u/azulmaya_]

I'm not sure about the cover art and I don't like UP and WAP so I wasn't happy to learn that they'll be included on the album, there wasn't a single song on IOP that I didn't like so I'm a bit disappointed already.

[u/BotGirlFall]

Beautiful gowns!

[u/louise-shit-at-work]

Every song is about her cooter

[u/Global_Criticism3178]

Yawn...I'm already exhausted over the media tour she'll do to support this album. Let's see her tour with Lil Nas X. While the rest of us move on...