Cardi B is giving us another taste of what to expect on Am I The Drama?. On Friday, the rap queen unleashed her latest single “Imaginary Playerz,” which samples a classic by Jay-Z.
The rapper shared a glam-filled music video for the track, featuring Cardi on a private jet and sailing on a yacht. The lyrics see Cardi talking herself up: “My flop and your flop is not the same/ If you did my numbers, y’all would pop champagne/ If I did your numbers, I would hop out a plane.”
“I was so happy because you guys understand, the song is kinda long… This song is like a staple for me and I had to get it approved by the one and only,” she said in an X Space earlier this week, referring to Jay-Z and his own “Imaginary Player” song. “It’s a very hip-hop record and I hope you guys enjoy it.”
Earlier this week, Cardi B expressed her worry that Taylor Swift might release her album the same day as the single, but once Swift shared the Oct. 3 release date for The Life of a Showgirl, Cardi shared some memes expressing her relief that they wouldn’t coincide.
Am I The Drama? is set to be 23 tracks long and will include recent single “Outside” as Track 14, as well as 2021’s “Up,” and the 2020 Megan Thee Stallion collab, “Wap,” at the end of the album. She also shared a new album cover variant for her fans on Tuesday. The new record is her follow-up to her Grammy-winning debut album Invasion of Privacy in 2018.
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Cardi also dropped a trailer for the album, showing her inside a house as crows swarm and attack her mansion. She tries to make her escape, only for an apparently evil version of herself to appear on a classic car, now in control of the birds.
Cardi B spoke to Rolling Stone last year about finalizing the album. “I’m a different person every single day,” she said at the time. “When I’m in a good mood and I’m with my friends, [I’m] like, ‘Damn, I want my shit to be played in this club.’ But then I might be mad with my man, so it’s like now I want to do this song. But then I want to do a pop record. I want to do my sing-y shit.”
