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Cardi B has fans getting excited for her long-awaited sophomore album – while over six years after it came out, her debut effort is still putting numbers on the board.
On Monday (September 2), Chart Data revealed that Invasion Of Privacy has sold 500k units in 2024 alone. With the album already being certified 4x platinum since its April 2018 release, it’s pretty safe to say that a fifth certification is imminent.
Taking to X to react to the news, Cardi teased her next LP and implied that it was coming in the near future.
“Album still sellin like good quality pussy,” she joked. “OKAY OKAY let me stop playing and drop this second album [shh emoji]”
Late last month, Cardi B appeared to ruffle a few feathers after she hopped online and posted a picture of herself in the recording studio.
She captioned the Instagram Story: “Atlantic Records correctional facilities.”
After implying that she was signed to a jail, the Bronx superstar was forced to explain what she meant by the comment.
“The fact that I made a little joke about the studio because I been mixing and mastering about 40-50 songs and y’all turned that into I hate creating is crazy,” she wrote on X. “this why artists don’t interact anymore cuz y’all will take one little joke and stretch it wider than y’all assholes.”
She added: “God forbid I make a little sarcastic jokey jokey about motherhood y’all gonna claim I hate my kids and call cps…dweebs.”
Weeks earlier, Bardi revealed that the album’s photos are also done, telling a fan on X: ““Album covers are taken. I just don’t know which to pick.”
Cardi has not released many details about her sophomore album. But recently some hints dropped as to what the title might be.
TMZ spotted that in July, Cardi’s company Washpoppin, Inc. applied for trademarks to two phrases, specifically wanting to use both in “Pre-recorded record albums featuring music,” among other related uses.
The phrases are “Defamation of character” and “Intrusive thoughts.”
In addition to albums, Cardi also wants to be able to use the phrases for music videos, “downloadable music files,” and more.
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Lil Yachty usually does a great job at feeding his fans new music. It seems like every other week he's got new snippets to tease or loosies dropping on DSPS whenever he feels like it. Just several hours ago, the Georgia multi-hyphenate hopped on over to his SoundCloud page, tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem, to share some long-lost recordings.
Per HipHopNMore, there's 11 in total and the origins of them range from 2022-2025. Some of you may remember that Lil Yachty updated this account almost a year ago with 14 tracks. Back then he unleased some unheard collaborations with his 2016 XXL Freshman classmate 21 Savage and singer Vory.
In the time since then, Yachty did drop off a pair of freestyles as well. But this is the latest major collection to be added to tHE CONCRETE LeaK sYstem.
Overall, the cuts here feel reminiscent of his earlier material in that they are more trap focused. However, the main some extra charm with most of the beats featuring some slightly left-field quirks.
They definitely don't relate at all to what Lil Boat has been experimenting with solo catalog wise. His 2023 album Let's Start Here. was a psychedelic rock exploration. Then, there's his 2024 collaboration joint with James Blake, Bad Cameo.
On that, Lil Yachty stepped into the London artist's soundscape in some ways by bringing his warbly singing voice to neo-soul, alternative R&B, and ambient pop.
But unfortunately for the 27-year-old, him sharing of all of this music with his fans has been interrupted to some degree. That's because Yachty is still going back and forth with former Concrete Boys group mate, KARRAHBOOO.
Her initial split from Boat's collective was a shocking development when it originally happened about a year ago. However, as the two rappers repeatedly went at each other's throats, we began to learn more. Yachty was claiming that KARRAHBOOO was incredibly disrespectful to those involved with the group.
Moreover, it led to him claiming that he was writing all of her verses and tracks. KARRAHBOOO has since retaliated, of course, but she really went after him recently. Just two weeks ago, she alleged that he mistreats women poorly overall. "U have a daughter and u treating women like this is mindblowing like I know u never see her but still that doesn’t make sense how evil this man is to women (not just me)," she said in part.
