Cardi B displayed her growing baby bump while lip-syncing her single “Imaginary Playerz” inside a HUD Housing project this week. The song is the second single off her upcoming album Am I the Drama?
In the video posted on her social media accounts, Cardi wears a black bodysuit, a full length fox fur coat and a pair of lace-up strappy heels while strutting down a hallway in the housing project.
The video dropped days after Cardi B insisted she is not pregnant with her fourth child – her first baby by NFL star Stefon Diggs.
The “WAP” rapper shut down pregnancy rumors in a rant on Instagram Live.
“‘Look thirty weeks pregnant’? No, you stupid b–h,” Bardi said. “I’m just f–ing out of breath ’cause I have asthma… Stop f–ing being f–ing funny in this b–ches before you get motherf–ing blocked, b–h. Stupid a-s comment, don’t put that s–t on me, b–h.”
Cardi B, 32, shares three children with ex-husband Offset.
“Imaginary Playerz,” is Cardi B’s karaoke version of Jay-Z’s iconic 1997 track “Imaginary Players.” Cardi’s version of the song didn’t impress hip-hop purists.
Rapper-turned-podcaster Joe Budden says he isn’t a fan of Cardi B’s latest single.
“She shouldn’t do that again. Don’t do that again,” Budden told hip-hop professor Marc Lamont Hill in a recent episode of his podcast.
“Don’t take any East Coast, top 3 or 4 rapper, beat, classic song, and redo that… We’re gonna shout out the writers. The writers killed. This is not about the writers. The writers killed.”
Joe went on to say Cardi’s flow and delivery were “choppy” and Jay-Z’s cadence and flow were “fly” compared to Cardi.
“Cardi’s in the same pitch, same tone, sounding choppy, not smooth, bars are there, but this is not the beat for that,” he said.
Joe Budden, back from vacation, shares his thoughts on Cardi B “Imaginary Players” record and whether she can hit 200k first-week sales in today’s climate, where Gunna sold 80k, Clipse sold 118k, and Nicki Minaj sold 228k. pic.twitter.com/4P0YHF2rWL
— joebuddenclips/fanpage (@Chatnigga101) August 20, 2025
