Cardi B has done it again, scoring Apple Music’s most-streamed song with her blistering new single “Outside.” But if you assume her new album will surf that same momentum, the Bronx-born rap queen has a message: Don’t get too comfortable.
With the chart-topping peak coming amid headlines full of global instability, Cardi kept her focus on her victory. She grinned broadly in a candid clip on social media.
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“We’re No. 1 on Apple Music! We’re No. 1 on Apple Music. I don’t know what’s going to happen to this country tomorrow but I know we went number one today,’” she said, her typical blend of humor and heart fully intact. “I am so thankful. I am so grateful.”
“Outside” arrived as the highest new entry on the U.S. iTunes chart, and it serves as an anthem of Cardi’s resurgence as fans obsess over the new record and demand that she release her second studio album. But curiously, the road to that win wasn’t entirely smooth.
In the same breath that she gloated, Cardi also thanked one of her labels, Atlantic Records, in a characteristically profane manner and apologized in her own charming way for ignoring the label’s encouragement to release it in the first place.
“I’m gonna publicly apologize to Atlantic, because I was being very bratty, very mean, very nasty, because I really didn’t want to put this song out,” she admitted. “But they was like, ‘No, b####. We gave a little bit, we let it go, and it is going amazing.”
That hesitant green light has undoubtedly paid off, but Cardi wants fans to know this is only one flavor in what looks to be the pretty varied sonic smorgasbord.
“I’m happy u guys love ‘Outside’ but I just can’t wait for u guys to hear my album,” she said. “I know y’all think my songs be sounding like that, they don’t… I’m coming very different. It’s a very good vibe, but a totally different vibe.”
The rest of the album won’t sound like “Outside” or even her 2023 collaboration “Bongos” with Megan Thee Stallion. It’s a bold promise, but Cardi’s tagline is bold.
No name has been revealed yet for the project, her first full-length since 2018’s Invasion of Privacy. The set won her a Grammy for Best Rap Album and established her as one of the most powerful players in the game. She’s hinted that this new drop will include at least 20 tracks, a combination of familiar names, and surprise collaborations. So, Cardi is outside, but do not assume she will remain there. A new order is on the way, and if there’s one thing we’ve learned from her ascent, it’s this: Never say never.
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