Cardi B dropped a brand new burner on Thursday night time (March 7), teasing what seems to be her subsequent single in TikTok video from the recording studio. Barefoot and dressed down in sweats, a white tank prime, spherical eyeglasses, no make-up and her hair straightened, Cardi ripped off her sometimes acerbic traces over a spare, g-funk fashion beat, as soon as once more making it clear that haters needn’t apply.
“Me vs. you and you recognize who they pickin’,” she rhymes to arrange the unnamed observe. “I can survive within the coldest situations… B–ches is washed, soapin’ the dishes/ I apply strain like boa constrictors/ One b–ch, two b–ch, previous b–ch, new b–ch, none of y’all not gonna do s–t/ I’m in Miami I pull up on cruise ships.”
Dancing alongside to her personal observe, Cardi provides the last word ultimatum, rapping, “I see my opps linking up, I’m like, ‘What the f–okay?/ If you happen to scared, then simply say that hoe/ Sufficient is sufficient.” The publish acquired just a few remark from well-known mates, together with SZA, who wrote “the hair is giving” and Camila Cabello, who added, “sheeeeesh.”
At press time Cardi hadn’t offered any further data on the observe, although the caption of her TikTok publish, “15” and a winking emoji, appeared to recommend it was due out on March 15. If the tune comes out subsequent week, it will mark the follow-up to final week’s “Like What (Freestyle).” She additionally dropped a horny video for the freestyle wherein pays tribute to Missy Elliot and tries on all kinds of eclectic outfits within the clip directed by estranged husband rapper Offset; final month, Offset advised his ex to “cease being scary” and drop her sophomore album already.
“Like What” is Cardi’s first solo document since 2021’s “Up,” which earned the rapper her first Billboard Sizzling 100 No. 1 hit and a 2022 Grammy nomination for greatest rap efficiency. Since then she’s dropped “Tomorrow 2” with GloRilla, “Jealously” with Offset and the Megan Thee Stallion collab “Bongos.”
Cardi has been teasing new music for months, together with an in Insta Story final week wherein she advised followers that her long-awaited sophomore album could possibly be launched this 12 months. She advised the Bardi Gang that she was “not letting my anxiousness, I’m not letting what haters say, I’m not letting what followers say” stop her from releasing new songs, including that “I’ve acquired no selection as a result of I’m dropping my album this 12 months, so keep tuned for the announcement.”
The follow-up to the MC’s breakthrough 2018 debut studio album, Invasion of Privateness,
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