Cardi B Gets Real About ‘AM I THE DRAMA,’ Politics & Stefon Diggs Romance | Billboard Cover

Cardi B sits down with Billboard’s Carl Lamarre in anticipation of her second album ‘AM I THE DRAMA.’ The star gets candid on everything from why the album took years to release, ‘WAP’ and ‘UP’ being a part of the track list, female rap beefs and her relationship with Stefon Diggs.

Carl Lamarre:

What’s going on, y’all? I am senior director of R&B/Hip-Hop, Mr. Carl Lamarre, and we are here with one of music’s most transcendent superstars. She is a Grammy Award winner, five chart-toppers on the Hot 100, Miss Cardi B. 

Cardi B:

Hi. How are you? 

I’m good. How are you? 

It’s been a long day shooting, but we here.

You’ve been trooping like a real soldier. We’re here because of album number two. 

Yes.

It’s finally here. You know, it’s been seven years since ‘Invasion of Privacy.’ How would you say you have grown since then?

Well, since the seven years, I have experienced a lot. I have experienced fame, the good and the bad of fame, the hate, the jealousy, the drama, the personal life, the balancing my career with my personal life and just growing up and maturing and like opening my eyes more, learning how to like, control my emotions more, or like, understand my emotions, or like, understand just the way life works and like, it’s just how to play chess better.

Right. 

Yeah. 

I mean, listen, I think you’ve been playing the chess pretty d*mn well. 

Well you know… 

At any moment in the past seven years, did you question or have any doubts, like, “Sh–, I don’t know if this second album is going to drop.”

No, never. I always knew that I was going to drop a second album. It’s not even about dropping a second album.

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