Cardi B‘s long-awaited sophomore album Am I The Drama? is proving the title is more than just a rhetorical question. The 23-track project arrived today (Sept. 19), and already has fans dissecting the lyrics and matching subliminals to names.
On the track “Pretty & Petty,” Cardi reignited her 2024 “beef” with Boston rapper BIA, claiming that the “London” rhymer doesn’t have five songs that people could name, nor a “look” that Cardi would want for herself.
“Name five BIA songs, gun pointed to your head/ Bow, I’m dead,” she rapped before also spitting, “I’d rather die on the surgery table/ Before I gotta walk around here lookin’ like you.”
Bia attends Beautycon™ Los Angeles 2023 at The Reef on September 17, 2023 in Los Angeles, California.
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Proverbially, Cardi twisted the knife even deeper, taunting that promoters only book “Diarrhea Bia” when “they can’t afford Coi [Leray],” and even questioned if BIA has a BET Award to her name. Cardi has 21, by the way, including both BET Hip-Hop and Social awards.
She then brought Diddy into the mix, lyrically asking BIA: “Why you always at Diddy house?/ I heard they combed that lil’ kitty out/ Tell these folks what’s it’s really about.”
And just when it seemed like the jabs couldn’t get any lower, The “Bodega Baddie” rapped, “I’m a bad bi**h and you mad/ ’Cause you built like your dad.”
The feud traces back to March 2024, when fans suggested Cardi was copying BIA’s style, something BIA seemingly co-signed with a “woozy” emoji on X.
Cardi later addressed it head-on in her verse on Megan Thee Stallion and GloRilla’s “Wanna Be (Remix)” by spitting, “Guess I’m a teacher since you wanna sub me… Bi**h please, don’t nobody wanna be ya (BIA).”
BIA wasted no time firing back in an untitled track where she accused Cardi of infidelity and questioned her pen game. “Put it on your hubby since you love lyin’ on your vows… I’ll be damned if I let an ni**a f**k a bi**h inside my house,” she spit. She also shaded Cardi’s multiple surgeries as “mid” and her speaking skills as “second-grade level.”
In response to cheating allegations, Cardi went the legal route, warning in an IG Live video, “I’m a sue you and you got to come with receipts. And not social media receipts, court receipts,” she said. “I will get every little f**kin’ red penny that you ever f**kin’ make, bi**h.”
Bia simply quipped, “SUE ME ??? That’s not Hip-Hop.”
Take a listen to Cardi’s new diss track “Pretty & Petty” above.
