{"id":176946,"date":"2025-06-26T04:20:17","date_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:20:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/cardi-b-explains-decision-to-include-wap-up-on-new-album-years-after-she-released-them\/"},"modified":"2025-06-26T04:20:17","modified_gmt":"2025-06-26T04:20:17","slug":"cardi-b-explains-decision-to-include-wap-up-on-new-album-years-after-she-released-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2025\/06\/26\/cardi-b-explains-decision-to-include-wap-up-on-new-album-years-after-she-released-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Explains Decision to Include \u2018WAP\u2019 &#038; \u2018Up\u2019 on New Album Years After She Released Them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\t\t<span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cardi-b\/\" title=\"Cardi B\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Cardi B<\/strong><\/a> is opening up about her decision to include her previously released songs on her upcoming sophomore album.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this week, the 32-year-old \u201cOutside\u201d rapper finally announced that her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/23\/cardi-b-announces-long-awaited-second-studio-album-am-i-the-drama\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">new album, titled <strong><em>Am I The Drama?<\/em><\/strong>, will be released on September 19<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>She also revealed that her 2020 mega-hit \u201cWAP\u201d with <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/megan-thee-stallion\/\" title=\"Megan Thee Stallion\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Megan Thee Stallion<\/strong><\/a> and her 2021 song \u201cUp\u201d will be featured as the final two tracks on the 23-track album. <\/p>\n<p>On Wednesday night (June 25), <strong>Cardi<\/strong> took to <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/iamcardib\" onclick=\"getOutboundLink(&#039;https:\/\/x.com\/iamcardib&#039;); return false;\" target=\"_blank\">X<\/a> to explain why she included the songs on the album despite releasing them years ago.<\/p>\n<p><strong class=\"hidearticle\"><em>Keep reading to find out more\u2026<\/em><\/strong><span id=\"more-2121356\"><\/span>\u201cThis will be the last and only time I\u2019m gonna address this.. WAP and Up are two of my biggest songs, my fans have been asking me to put them on an album, and people search for them on IOP all the time\u2026 they deserve a home..\u201d <strong>Cardi<\/strong> started.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI let haters make me not submit WAP for the Grammy\u2019s and at this point I\u2019m giving my fans what they want!\u201d she continued. \u201cThese two songs don\u2019t even count for first week sales so what are yall even crying about??? Do ya say anything when all these artist pull out all their little tricks and ponies to sell out??? Exactly\u2026.Now let them eat cake. Go cry about it!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you missed it, <strong>Cardi<\/strong>\u2018s rep responded to the conversation regarding the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/24\/cardi-bs-rep-responds-to-album-title-allegedly-referencing-drag-race-star-scarlet-envy\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">title of the album, which is a phrase that went viral<\/a> from <em>RuPaul\u2019s Drag Race<\/em> star <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/scarlet-envy\/\" title=\"Scarlet Envy\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>Scarlet Envy<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n<div class=\"center\" style=\"margin: auto; width: 85%; clear: both\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\" xml:lang=\"en\">This will be the last and only time I\u2019m gonna address this.. WAP and Up are two of my biggest songs, my fans have been asking me to put them on an album, and people search for them on IOP all the time\u2026 they deserve a home.. I let haters make me not submit WAP for the Grammy\u2019s\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Cardi B (@iamcardib) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/iamcardib\/status\/1938018245111378376?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">June 25, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"postdata\">\n<div class=\"details\">\n\t\t\tPhotos: Getty Images\t\t\tPosted to: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/tags\/cardi-b\/\" title=\"View all posts in Cardi B\" rel=\"category tag noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardi B<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) { var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0]; if (d.getElementById(id)) return; js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id; js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v3.2&appId=145071315902360\"; fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs); }(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><br \/>\n<br \/><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2025\/06\/26\/cardi-b-explains-decision-to-include-wap-up-on-new-album-years-after-she-released-them\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cardi B is opening up about her decision to include her previously released songs on her upcoming sophomore album. Earlier this week, the 32-year-old \u201cOutside\u201d rapper finally announced that her new album, titled Am I The Drama?, will be released on September 19. She also revealed that her 2020 mega-hit \u201cWAP\u201d with Megan Thee Stallion [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":176947,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-176946","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176946","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=176946"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176946\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176947"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176946"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176946"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176946"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}