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Cardi B Posts Important Update About Progress On Anticipated Sophomore Album

No word yet on the songs, but at least we know the cover shot is in the can.

Cardi B Posts Important Update About Progress On Anticipated Sophomore Album

Cardi B has been teasing her highly anticipated sophomore album for more than a year. After marking the sixth anniversary of her 2018 full-length debut LP, Invasion of Privacy, in April by teasing that she was prepping something “so different from what everyone is expecting” for her second studio album, the “Bongos” MC has sent mixed signals about when the as-yet-untitled collection might drop.

But over the weekend, in response to a fan’s X comment that “the album cover is ready is what I’m hearing,” Cardi finally gave some definitive affirmation. “Album covers are taken ….I just don’t know which to pick [freaked out emoji].” Her busy Saturday featured another tease after a fan joked they were on their way to France to find the Hermes bag the rapper said she was in search of. “If you find the bag I”ll release my album cover,” Cardi promised.


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Cardi, who shares two young children with estranged husband Offset, from whom she recently filed for divorce for a second time — is pregnant with her third child with the Migos co-founder. She also recently shared news about the “freak accident” that landed her in the hospital. “I had a f–king freak accident. I don’t know how something — well, it wasn’t little, it actually hurt,” Cardi said, without going into specific details on what the accident was or a diagnosis in an X Spaces chat with followers. “It doesn’t really happen often, but it become so big to the point I was literally paralyzed. And that little thing almost cost me my little one to come. But it didn’t. Yesterday I was feeling good. I came home, but I came home high as a kite.”

In July, the rapper gave her Bardigang hope that the untitled second album might drop this year when she said, “Sometimes I get a little aggressive because yall know I don’t like to be told what to do but I promise you it’s coming THIS YEAR. Thank you for the love and anticipation and always holding me down. I love yall.” The update came just before Cardi popped up in her latest feature on New Orleans MC Rob49’s “On Dat Money.”

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See Cardi’s post below.

This article was originally published by Billboard U.S.

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Here’s Why ‘Shake It to the Max’ Was Deemed Ineligible at the 2026 Grammys — And Why Its Label Calls the Decision ‘Devoid of Any Common Sense’

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