While Am I the Drama? ended up being seven years in the making and arrived less than three months ago, Cardi B already has plans for the direction of her next album. Cardi hopped on X Spaces on Thursday morning (Dec. 4) to share some insight into her creative process while crafting the long-awaited follow-up to her 2018 full-length debut album, Invasion of Privacy, and what she’s taking from the fan response to her latest and applying to her future work.
Essentially, the Drama songs that made the Grammy-winning rapper stress the most weren’t as well-received as the tracks that came to Cardi with ease.
“One thing I’mma do for my next project or my next song, I kinda just wanna go with something that makes me feel good and makes me happy,” she said. “I feel I overthink too much. I super, super, super overthink. And the songs people like are the songs that to me was just a breeze to do. A lot of people like ‘ErrTime,’ and ‘ErrTime’ to me I didn’t really think too much. I feel like some songs I busted my brain to do a lot. I’m just gonna go with the flow of things. You take your time and some songs will last me almost two weeks to do because I want it to sound so, so perfect.”
Cardi continued: “Next project, I hope that I just release things,” she said. “One thing I realized with this project is the songs I be stressing and bussing my head over, y’all liked it, but I feel like the ones I be more chill, relax and vibe, those the ones y’all love the most. I’m just gonna give it to y’all.”
The Bronx native revealed Am I the Drama? was supposed to have even more features, but some people “played” around and others Cardi didn’t think were a fit on the songs after hearing their verses. “A lot of songs in my album was supposed to be a lot of features,” she said. “Some people played and some people actually turned in their vocals, but I didn’t feel like they fit.”
Elsewhere in the Spaces, Cardi described how she always tells her engineer that her songs feel “too aggressive” and she tries to scale things back.
“I like to make music that everybody would like. If I was to make music that I would listen to, it would be super drill music,” Cardi explained. “Baby, I would be sounding like Kay Flock and G Herbo in this motherf—r because that’s just how I am. Or I might go a little bit old school Cam’ron and Fab type of vibe because that’s the type of music I grew up listening to.”
The 33-year-old also wondered why some fans feel like all she raps about is sex and “p—y,” when she doesn’t think that’s the case at all. “Most of my songs I’m not even mentioning p—y or f—ing, most of my songs are about things I don’t really brag about, but I brag in my songs and my gangster s—t,” she added.
“So I don’t get why people say that. I just really think people pay attention to that when it comes to female rap… Why do people want to ignore when you talking about yourself? … Please y’all just wanna pop that p—y.”
Am I the Drama? arrived in September and topped the Billboard 200 with 200,000 album-equivalent units earned.
Listen to the full Spaces below.
