{"id":67133,"date":"2025-08-14T08:00:19","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:00:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67133\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T08:00:19","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T08:00:19","slug":"cardi-b-confirms-jay-z-approved-sample-on-new-single-imaginary-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67133\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Confirms Jay-Z Approved Sample on New Single &#8216;Imaginary Players&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>                  <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/2025\/08\/cardi-b-confirms-jay-z-approved-sample-on-new-single-imaginary-players\/\" class=\"post-image-link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cardi-b-imaginary-players-jay-z-tgj-scaled.jpg\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p><img data-no-lazy=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/cardi-b-imaginary-players-jay-z-tgj-600x342.jpg\" alt=\"Cardi B Confirms Jay-Z Approved Sample on New Single 'Imaginary Players'\" width=\"600\" height=\"342\"\/><\/p>\n<p><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/cardi-b\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cardi B<\/a> fans are counting down the days to the release of her new single, \u2018Imaginary Players.\u2019<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">And she\u2019s seizing the moment to clarify the speculation around whether the track samples the <a href=\"https:\/\/thatgrapejuice.net\/category\/jay-z\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Jay-Z<\/a> classic of the same name.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Full story below\u2026<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking via X Spaces about her recent Spotify listening session for her album \u2018Am I The Drama?\u2019, Cardi revealed that the Hip-Hop mogul granted her permission to sample his cut.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">She said:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere was a lot of Hip-Hop heads in the building, and they heard \u2018Imaginary Players\u2019 and they absolutely love it. I was so happy because, I don\u2019t think you guys understand, the song is kinda long. This is like a staple for me. I have to get it approved by the one and only. And if he didn\u2019t approve it, I probably wouldn\u2019t feel a certain type of way because maybe it meant I would need to come a little bit harder. But I\u2019m glad that I came hard and [he] loves it and everybody else love it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the femcee explain in her own words:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Cardi B reveals Jay Z heard and approved her \u2018Imaginery Players\u2019 sample himself via Spaces.\ud83d\udda4<\/p>\n<p>The single is long &amp; is real Hip-Hop.<br \/>Hip-Hop heads loved it at the Spotify listening party. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2FvEY8C4L5\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/2FvEY8C4L5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 \u0eca (@BardisMedia) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BardisMedia\/status\/1955585155193782346?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">August 13, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jay\u2019s \u2018Imaginary Players\u2019 is widely considered a classic and is housed on 1997\u2019s \u2018In My Lifetime, Vol. 1\u2019 album.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cardi\u2019s incarnation arrives this Friday (August 15) ahead of the \u2018Am I The Drama?,\u2019 which is due on September 19 via Atlantic Records.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Take a listen to HOV\u2019s original track below:<\/p>\n<p>[Photo Credit: Getty \/ Grammys]<\/p>\n<p>                                      <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B fans are counting down the days to the release of her new single, \u2018Imaginary Players.\u2019 And&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67134,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[64,63,134,136],"class_list":["post-67133","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-entertainment","tag-music"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67133","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67133"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67133\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67133"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67133"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67133"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}