Cardi B doesn’t owe anyone an explanation, but she gave one anyway. After revealing that her long-awaited sophomore album, “Am I the Drama?” will feature her previous hits “WAP” and “Up,” the chatter started. Some questioned why two tracks released years ago were being packaged with new material. But Cardi didn’t let the noise linger too long.

She addressed the backlash directly on X, formerly known as Twitter, and laid it out without sugarcoating a thing. “This will be the last and only time I’m gonna address this,” she wrote. “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 “Invasion of Privacy” all the time… they deserve a home.”

The Grammy winner reminded her followers that she never gave those songs a proper album placement. Despite the massive commercial success of both singles—“WAP” featuring Megan Thee Stallion and the solo cut “Up”—neither were attached to a full body of work. That was intentional at the time, but Cardi said she let critics talk her out of giving “WAP” a Grammy submission. This time around, she’s not asking for permission.

“These two songs don’t even count for first week sales so what are y’all even crying about?” she added. “Do y’all say anything when all these artists pull out all their little tricks and ponies to sell out??? Exactly… Now let them eat cake. Go cry about it!!!”

“Am I the Drama?” marks Cardi’s first album since her 2018 debut “Invasion of Privacy.” With this rollout, she’s giving fans what they’ve been waiting for, and she’s doing it on her own terms.