{"id":88629,"date":"2025-08-17T03:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88629\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T03:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T03:05:06","slug":"cardi-b-explains-why-imaginary-players-is-her-latest-single","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/88629\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Explains Why \u201cImaginary Players\u201d Is Her Latest Single"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Cardi B<\/a> has spent the week preparing the anticipated release of the new Jay-Z<\/a>-sampled single, “Imaginary Players<\/a>.” While discussing the single on Apple Music livestream, she explained why she decided to release the song as the latest single from her upcoming Am I The Drama?.<\/p>\n

For Cardi, it was important to release “Imaginary Players” because of what it represents. Jay-Z’s 1997 classic was a song that identified the fraudulent rappers in hip hop. Cardi B’s latest release follows a similar concept. <\/p>\n

\u201cI had to come like this, I had to come strong, and shi**ing on you b*tches,” Cardi tells livestream audience. “I love this record and I don\u2019t give a fu** what nobody say and i\u2019m standing on that, yall can suck my di** and I know I ate that sh**.\u201d<\/p>\n

Many fans have claimed that Cardi’s new single is a diss towards her longtime rival Nicki Minaj<\/a>. Cardi B has not confirmed the rumors. Jay-Z approved the track, personally, according to her. <\/p>\n

Cardi B \u201cImaginary Player\u201d<\/p>\n

Am I The Drama? is eight years in the making. Cardi B originally promised its release in 2024, before having her third child and announcing her divorce from her ex-husband and rap star, Offset<\/a>. Cardi\u2019s second album will be the direct follow-up to her award-winning 2017 debut, Invasion of Privacy.<\/p>\n

Cardi\u2019s \u201cImaginary Players\u201d has reached over 336,000 streams within 24 hours and received mixed reviews<\/a>. \u201c\u2018Gloryhole, btches don\u2019t know who they fcking with\u2019 is a crazy bar lmaoooo,\u201d tweeted an X user about the song.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n

While fans admired the lyrics, others acknowledged the rapper\u2019s lyrical abilities. One X user tweeted, \u201cThis is Real Hip Hop,\u201d while another shared, \u201cFinally listened to\/watched Cardi\u2019s Imaginary Players video. She was talkin cash shit, droppin bars\/crazy double entendres + servin looks. Btwn the OG record, Jay\u2019s sample & this rendition, it’s just a timeless groove.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cImaginary Players\u201d has placed Jay-Z\u2019s 1997 album, In My Lifetime Vol. 1, back into the charts after 28 years. Jay\u2019s \u201cImaginary Players\u201d has resurfaced in Apple iTunes Top 40 Hip Hop\/Rap charts<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B has spent the week preparing the anticipated release of the new Jay-Z-sampled single, “Imaginary Players.” While…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":88630,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[57],"tags":[57050,28295,236,88,57051,60673,18207,216,3],"class_list":["post-88629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-am-i-the-drama","tag-cardi-b","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-imaginary-players","tag-in-my-lifetime-vol-1","tag-jay-z","tag-music","tag-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=88629"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88629\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/88630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}