Cardi B’s ‘Am I the Drama?’: All 23 Tracks Ranked

The doubters have been silenced, the fans have been fed; at long last, Cardi B’s sophomore album is finally here.

Seven years after Cardi B shaped the game in her image with Invasion of Privacy, the Bronx-bred rapper is back for seconds with Am I the Drama? The 23-track project will feature both of her Billboard Hot 100 No. 1 hits: 2020’s “WAP” and 2021’s “Up,” and will include her most recent singles “Imaginary Playerz” and “Outside.”

Cardi has been meticulously rolling out the project for weeks now. She hit the streets of New York City to sell off various copies of her new project, interrupted Jimmy Fallon’s opening monologue to promote said project, and even utilized her own pregnancy announcement to further roll out the album.

“Go support my album because I’m a mother of four now,” she joked in an interview with Gayle King after announcing she was expecting a new baby with her boyfriend Stefon Diggs.

With all eyes on Cardi, there is an incredible amount of pressure resting on the shoulders of Am I the Drama? Her debut album was a blockbuster hit, debuting atop the Billboard 200 with 255,000 album-equivalent units in its first week, with 103,000 coming from pure album sales. Cardi’s debut album earned the second-biggest first-week sales of 2018 at the time, with Cardi becoming the first female artist to chart thirteen songs simultaneously on the Billboard Hot 100. The accolades kept coming later that year, as Cardi B became the first solo female rapper to win the Best Rap Album Grammy award.

With features from Janet Jackson, Cash Cobain, Lizzo, Kehlani and more, and a massive headlining tour right on the horizon, Am I the Drama? on its face seems poised to be an equally substantial moment in Cardi B’s career. But how does the drama sound?

Check out Billboard’s ranking of Cardi B’s highly anticipated new album below. (Note: The two lowest tracks are ranked where they are due to them having been released so long before the album, and thus of course not feeling as fresh on first Drama listen.)