Overview

• Cardi B released Am I the Drama? on September 19, her first studio album in more than seven years.
• Listeners and outlets identified diss verses aimed at City Girls’ JT on “Magnet,” barbs referencing Ice Spice, and a direct callout of BIA on “Pretty & Petty.”
• The PodBudden Podcast praised sharp lines on the project while questioning authorship, with Budden saying, “Whoever is writing these lines, he is smoking this shit.”
• Cardi responded in a since-deleted post on X, sharing a July 2024 voice note of her drafting the disputed lines and asserting, “Nah that’s CARDI… this is my process.”
• Several tracks address her separation from Offset, including lyrics referencing her July 2024 divorce filing, as critics watch for potential responses from the artists named.