Following the release of “WAP,” Cardi B has returned with a new track titled “UP.”
The new cut hears the South Bronx-raised rapper formally announce her return with a series of proud and empowering bars. The song also arrives with an accompanying music video directed by Tanu Muino that sees her and her group dancing to the unfettering number.
The track serves as the second single of her upcoming album and also arrives following the premiere of her Uber Eats Super Bowl LV ad with Wayne’s World.
“If you don’t have a super crazy smash, it’s like ‘oh, you flop, flop flop.’ The song could be like two-times platinum, and it’s still flop, flop, flop. You’re always under pressure, and I feel like it’s not fair,” she said. “I feel like there’s male artists who go two years without putting a f*cking song out, and they don’t go, ‘Oh, you’re irrelevant. It’s over for you.’ Me, I didn’t put out songs for nine months, and it’s like, ‘Oh, she’s irrelevant. She’s over. She’s a flop. We told you that.’ That type of sh*t started to get to me, like crush me.”
She added, “I feel like I’m not gonna let that shit get to me to the point that I’m gonna put out a song that I’m not really in love with just ’cause.”
Watch and listen to Cardi B’s “UP” below.