Cardi B Discusses Dark Imagery Around ‘AITD?’: ‘Something Died In Me’

Cardi B has been in full rollout mode since announcing the release date of her forthcoming album, Am I The Drama? Unlike with Invasion of Privacy, the rapper is stepping into a new era; however, it’s much darker than expected.

Aside from the album’s eerie cover, the usage of crows, which are often a symbol of death, has even been reflected in her recent fashion choices. Last month, at Schiaparelli’s Paris Couture Week, she made quite the entrance, rocking a live crow as an outfit accessory. Cardi B recently sat down with Zane Lowe on Apple Music and noted the album’s dark “energy” stems from “something dying inside” her.

“I really like to do my things very colorful. I’m a very colorful person. But it’s just like this past year, I feel like something kind of was dying in me.”

“My humbleness, me trying so much to be unproblematic, me trying to avoid drama, avoid the disses, avoid the b*tches, avoid the talks, it’s like that sh*t is dying, that’s dying out in me,” she continued. “Because I’m really about to show you, b*tch, that you are not f*cking with me.”

The rapper said her “cockiness” has been reborn. At this stage in her life and career, Cardi says she’s done being nice: “It’s like, ‘Oh, just ignore it, be the bigger person.’ That sh*t is dying. Now it’s like I feel like I gave y’all too much grace to think that y’all could f*ck with me. And it’s like that sh*t is dead, b*tch. Now I’m going to embrace that.”

“You wanted that, b*tch. Now I’m going to give it to you,” Cardi B added, “And I hope you could take it when I motherf*cking give it to y’all.”