It’s been more than seven years since Bronx rap phenom Cardi B released her blockbuster debut album Invasion Of Privacy, a truly great record. We’ve had two presidential elections, one global pandemic, and countless waves of rap and pop discourse in the time since Invasion Of Privacy came out. In that time, Cardi B has had three children, and it’s about to be four. She’s gone through one divorce. She’s released a great many absolute bangers — “Money,” “Press,” “Tomorrow 2” with GloRilla, “Put It On Da Floor Again” with Latto — that will seemingly never appear on a Cardi B album. Now, Cardi B has finally released Am I The Drama?, the sophomore LP that some of us thought would never arrive. It’s real. It exists. And people have their knives out for this one.
