
Cardi B has launched the most recent single from her upcoming album, Am I The Drama?.
On Friday, August 15, the rapper dropped her newest single, “Imaginary Playerz.” The brand new tune–which will likely be on her upcoming album, Am I the Drama?–samples Jay-Z’s tune of the identical identify from his 1997 album, In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. The discharge of the only was accompanied by a music video, which exhibits Cardi residing a lifetime of luxurious, illustrating the grandiose way of life she’s turn into accustomed to.
Previous to the tune’s launch, Cardi B urged that Jay-Z himself accredited of the tune and her paying homage. Whereas speaking to her followers in a video about getting the pattern cleared, the Bronx native revealed that the hip-hop legend replied to approve using his tune at a kismet time.
Jay-Z’s newest studio album, launched in 2017, is titled 4:44. His thirteenth studio album is thought for its introspective and private themes, with the rapper reflecting on his marriage, household, and private struggles all through the challenge–which might trace at what Cardi’s gearing as much as do together with her upcoming challenge.
“Imaginary Playerz” was produced by DJ SwanQo, OctaneThisThatGas, and Sean Island, and it comes with a video that Cardi B directed with Endurance Foster. Am I the Drama?, the previous actuality star’s long-awaited sophomore studio album, is ready to drop on September 19 and can embrace her highly-successful singles “WAP,” “Up,” and “Exterior.”
Take a look at Cardi’s new video down beneath:
Forward of the tune’s launch, Cardi took to social media to tease that she obtained the only cleared by “the one and solely,” which followers might solely assume means Jay-Z himself.
“There [were] loads of Hip Hop heads within the constructing … and so they heard ‘Imaginary Gamers,’ and so they completely like it,” Cardi informed followers throughout an X Areas session on Aug. 13, per Rap-Up. “This tune is sort of a staple for me … I’ve to get it accredited by the one and solely.”
The star went on to confess that she would’ve been okay if the reply had been no, saying, “If he didn’t approve it, I most likely wouldn’t [have] even [felt] a sure kind of method [either], as a result of it’s like, ‘OK, perhaps I simply needed to come somewhat bit more durable.’ However I’m glad that I got here exhausting and he liked it.”
“If solely y’all knew the story of what I needed to undergo with this single,” the rapper informed her followers on an earlier Instagram Dwell. “I fought actually exhausting to place this tune out as a result of some folks wished a special route, nevertheless it’s like, I would like my subsequent single to be extra of a Hip Hop route.”