Cardi B, to place it merely, has quite a bit happening.
The Grammy-winning rapper, within the midst of selling her sophomore album, “Am I the Drama?,” and after securing a victory over a litigious safety guard, is pregnant together with her fourth youngster. The 32-year-old music star introduced the information — and put an finish to the being pregnant hypothesis — on “CBS Mornings” in an interview with Gayle King revealed Wednesday.
“The newest rumor about you is that you’re having a child, and I wish to know what, if something, you wish to share about that with the category,” King prompted the “Bodak Yellow” performer.
Cardi B replied, “Properly, sure I’m. I’m having a child with my boyfriend Stefon Diggs.”
Later within the interview, Cardi B defined to King that she feels she’s “in a very good area” professionally and personally, including that she feels “highly effective” pursuing the most recent chapter in her music profession whereas additionally “making a child.” Moreover, she touted her relationship with New England Patriots extensive receiver Diggs.
“Me and my man had been very supportive of one another. We’re like in the identical area in our careers,” the Bronx native defined, including she and her boyfriend are each striving to be higher of their respective fields. “We’re by no means comfy. We simply wish to preserve doing it.”
Cardi B and Diggs, 31, publicly debuted their relationship in Might after they had been noticed collectively on the Met Gala and having fun with one another’s firm throughout a Valentine’s Day weekend getaway in Miami. She and Diggs made their romance official months after the hip-hop star separated from ex-husband Offset in 2024.
She and the Migos rapper married in 2017 and share three younger kids, together with their youngest daughter, who was born in September 2024. Since their cut up, the exes have traded barbs by way of social media and their music.
Months into her relationship with Diggs, Cardi B instructed King she feels “very protected” together with her new beau, who she says makes her really feel “very assured and really sturdy.”
Earlier than her interview with King, Cardi B did confront the being pregnant rumors — simply not with the identical cool and picked up entrance. Earlier this month, she hurled a pen and a few scathing phrases at a person who requested about her relationships with Offset and Diggs as she exited an Alhambra courthouse throughout her civil assault trial.
“Insiders are claiming that Offset is publicly bragging about getting you pregnant for the fourth time,” the person mentioned. “Do you foresee any paternity points with Stefon Diggs?”
She responded by throwing a pen within the man’s route, saying, “Don’t disrespect me.”
“You’re disrespectful, don’t do this. Do you see ladies asking these forms of inquiries to me?” Cardi B scolded the person as she walked to her SUV. “Why do you’re feeling, as a person, you get to ask me these forms of questions? Act like you have got some manners. And your mama taught you, respect ladies.”
Cardi B instructed King she felt pissed off by the strain to reveal her being pregnant and mentioned she needed to share the information on her personal time. “Let me see a pair extra sonograms, let my child be wholesome,” she mentioned.
Along with juggling her fourth being pregnant and her incoming album, and the press that goes with it, Cardi B additionally introduced on Tuesday she is hitting the highway in February for her Little Miss Drama tour. She’s going to play a number of reveals in California that month, together with a cease on the Kia Discussion board on Feb. 15.
Cardi B’s “Am I the Drama?” drops Friday, seven years after she debuted with 2018’s “Invasion of Privateness.” The 23-track launch can even function Money Cobain, Janet Jackson, Kehlani, Lizzo, Megan Thee Stallion, Selena Gomez, Summer time Walker and Tyla, she revealed this week.
Clearly, Cardi B is full steam forward in selling her album. Not even a being pregnant reveal might get in the best way of that.
“By the best way, now that I’ve talked about it, y’all higher get my album. Y’all needed to know, proper? Now y’all know,” she instructed the off-camera “CBS Mornings” crew. “Now y’all might purchase my album. So I might purchase Pampers and diapers and all that kind of stuff.”
