Overview

• Cardi B released Am I the Drama? on September 19, her first studio album in more than seven years.
• On The Joe Budden Podcast, Budden praised the bars but questioned authorship, prompting Cardi to assert in a since-deleted X post that she wrote the disses herself.
• Cardi posted a clip of a July 2024 voice note demonstrating her process for crafting lines later heard on Magnet.
• Listeners widely interpret Magnet as aimed at JT, with additional lines many link to Ice Spice, and Pretty and Petty directly targets BIA by name.
• The exchange reanimates longstanding debates over ghostwriting in hip-hop, an issue that has shadowed Cardi’s credibility in past discussions.