Cardi B Announces Plans to Release New Album in 2026

Don’t expect a seven-year gap between albums for Cardi B. The Grammy-winning rapper is promising to drop another project in 2026.

Cardi hopped on X Spaces and explained how she doesn’t plan to drop a deluxe or remix album for Am I the Drama?, but instead, she’s looking to release another project within the next year.

“I see you guys asking for a deluxe or asking to do a remix album like Charli [XCX] or something,” she said. “Unfortunately, I am not doing none of that… What I gave y’all is what y’all getting.”

Cardi continued to tease her next era: “However, I want to put out a project, another album in less than a year, so I’m really planning on that. I want a new era. I kinda know what I want it to look like. It’s gonna be different from Am I the Drama?”.

The rapper has made plenty of promises that came and went in the seven years between "Invasion of Privacy" and "Am I the Drama?," the Bronx native’s sophomore album that finally arrived in September.

After giving birth to her fourth child, Cardi will hit the road for her first headlining tour in February. The Little Miss Drama Tour kicks off on February 11 in Palm Desert, California. She’ll then head through major cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, Houston, Detroit, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C, before finishing up on April 17 in Atlanta.

Later in the Spaces, Cardi explained how she’s ready to get back to her pre-pregnancy self after giving birth.

“You see how I was in a strict schedule while I was doing the rollout? Well, that is the same way that I’m going to be when I give birth,” she said. “I want to be a bad b—h. I feel really beautiful being pregnant, but I want to go back to bad b—ing. So I need to tighten up my body.”