A time meant for celebration has turned a little sour for Cardi B.
The New York native was recently honored by Spotify for the undeniable success of her hit records. To date, Cardi B has had four songs receive over a billion streams on the music streaming platform. This includes her 2020 song “WAP,” which features fellow rapper Megan Thee Stallion, her 2018 tracks “Girls Like You” (with Maroon 5) and “I Like It” (with Bad Bunny and J Balvin), and her 2019 song “Taki Taki” (with Selena Gomez, Ozuna, & DJ Snake).
Praising Cardi B for her achievements, Spotify sent the Grammy Award winner a silver plaque for each one of her songs to enter their elite Billions Club. Sharing the news of her latest trophies online, the 31-year-old wrote,
“Wooow FOUR songs that hit the billion mark on Spotify!! Women lie, men lie.. numbers don’t. I’m so excited to put out new music and reach even more milestones. Thank you everyone for listening, it really means alot.. can’t wait for you to see and hear what’s next”
Unfortunately, Cardi B’s exciting moment was somewhat overshadowed by chats about when her highly anticipated sophomore album will drop. An X user (formerly known as Twitter) added to the discussion surrounding the “Please Me” artist’s rollout and wrote,
“No but just announce the album… let’s not talk about rollouts either cause she was jumping up and down in march about how the album is closer than we think this that n the third… nothing in april and nothing mid way thru may. But i thought yall had everything planned to the tea”
Defending Cardi B, well-known media personality/blogger KenBarbie said, in part,
“It is. And she’s actually overly communicated with y’all already. She didn’t have to tell you those features got pushed back.. she didn’t have to tell you that one is dropping next week.. but she tries to communicate”
Entering the chat herself, Cardi addressed feedback from someone who urged her to “pull back” from social media and said,
“Exactly and I tell myself this all the time ..and I hate that I fall back and start interacting again and it bites me in the *ss …anyway NO album this year I don’t care I’m relaxing this year ..Dropping these features I already committed to and traveling and enjoying my summer.”
Doubling down, she added in response to a critic,
“YEUP ITS NOT DONE CAUSE THERE IS NO ALBUM ….Congrats you won a prize for your answer …here’s your prize [middle finger emoji]”
After a fan suggested her mood swings might be because she’s pregnant again, Cardi shut that rumor down and slammed her fanbase in the process. She wrote,
“Ain’t no hormones at all a b*tch ain’t pregnant y’all just ruined everything for me .Even when I drop music yall ruin everything..WORST FANBASE EVER ..I remember crying to Ken cause i felt like I did something wrong when I dropped enough cause y’all was complaining that it wasn’t on today top hits makin me feel like I alway drop the ball just so the song can go top ten without it y’all just love to complain”
At the time of this report, Cardi hasn’t said anything else on the matter. However, KenBarbie did add,
“Cardi is definitely releasing an album this year… ignore that.”
What are your thoughts on this entire situation? Tell us in the comments below!
Birdman (more…)
