The Breakfast Club - Cardi B’s Am I The Drama Is Certified Platinum On Release Day! Fair or not fair?

Episode Date: September 20, 2025

Cardi B is back with her sophomore album, Am I The Drama, and in less than 24 hours she’s already officially been certified platinum by the RIAA with past hits like WAP featuring Meg Thee Stallion attributing to the fast success.  Loren LoRosa breaks this all down + updates you on what’s to come in Vegas for iHearts music festival. YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@BreakfastClubPower1051FMSee omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

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It's Lauren LaRosa, and this is the latest with Lauren LaRosa. This is your deadly dig on all things, pop culture, entertainment. news and all of the conversations that shake the room baby now we are coming to you guys live well not like live live but i'm recording here in los vegas uh me in the i heart team the breakfast club team we are here for the i heart music festival 2025 i am really excited this is my first i heart radio music festival you know something big that they do every year and we'll get into what to expect and also where you can watch me host you guys and take you into the festival live this evening.

But first and foremost, we got to get on into the latest. So let's get into it. So Cardi B has officially dropped her sophomore album. Man, this has been a long time coming. People have been having conversations about Cardi B, this album, whether the album would come, whether the album would not come, when it would come, how well she would do, how well she would not do, the subject matter would be, what the flow would be, the type of music would be forever. It has been seven plus years since Cardi B. has dropped an album.

And a lot of people thought she was going to do her Lauren Hill. A lot of people thought that Cardi B would drop one album and continue to do features and other things, but never drop an official full body of music. And the first album that she dropped was Invasion of Privacy. And now we are back again with M. I. The Drama. Now listen. Crazy news to the point where. When I saw it on my timeline, I was like, there is no way this is real.

I was like, what? That fast? But then I had to think about the singles that Cardi B released prior to dropping the album that she added on the album because the RIAA, which is the Recording Industry Association of America, just announced that Cardi B's M.I. the Drama album is already certified platinum on release day. The album came out today, y'all. and before the end of the day she is already certified platinum but that is because she added those

songs that people there were people that were upset about it she added up which is five times platinum already on its own and then she added wop with maddyxalian which was already nine times platinum on its own and because of those records and you know people downloading and listening to the other songs newly she today is already certified platinum on her release day and is given is only up from here Now, in hearing this, because again, when I saw it, I was like, is this even real? And then I saw a Billboard article. And when I saw the Billboard article, I'm like, oh, this is real. Billboard would not do an article.

They would know whether this is real or not. And when I saw the Billboard article, I was like, okay, I can kind of understand why people would be upset about her adding up and whop to the album because it's like she gets things like this happen because those records were such big records. But at the same time, who are we to tell her that she can't? Artists do it all the time. It's actually, I mean, it's kind of smart. strategy-wise, but I understand why people would feel like it's cheating the system because

first they drop. People are still checking for those songs. Don't get me wrong. But first they drop, the full project itself is not giving, oh, it's been out for these amount of hours and now it's platinum. It's because of the work that those songs have done all of this time up until now from the day that they were released. So I get it. And again, and we talked about this in the last episode. Cardi said that she added these records because her fans always ask her to put the songs somewhere that they can listen to it collectively. And also, she says she's tired and not been able to submit them for the Grammy. She didn't submit it for the Grammys.

These songs, uh, wop and up when they first dropped because she was worried about what people would think because she didn't have a full project out. Now she has a full project out and she's like, whatever. I really want to know how y'all feel about that, especially the music heads, like the hip hop heads. Let me know how y'all feel. Do y'all feel like sis is cheating the code and it's unfair? Or do y'all feel like all is first?

are in loving war. Get outside in the streets and the tweets. We're outside. We outside. We outside. Outside in the tweets. Every other page are gold. I'm Lauren La Rosa everywhere. L-O-R-E-N-L-O-R-O-S-A. Let's have a conversation about it. I personally, again, I don't think that I have a strong feeling on either side, but I do understand why now people were upset when she announced that she would be putting those songs on this album. I get it. I completely get it. But also, too, I think it's like one of those things where it's like, don't get her wrong. Cardi B is a huge star, a huge music star. People were going to consume this album and crazy

magnitudes because she hasn't dropped in so long and people attached to everything she does. So it's not like it's like a artist who like, you know, people don't listen to, people are not checking for it and they do this as a cheat code. Like it's, it's Cardi B, y'all. now some of the marketing we you know i talked about the door dash situation here with you know cardy has you know am i the drama the physical copies being delivered by door jad door dash but one of the things i also thought she did was smart was she included walmart and walmart deliveries in his rollout because if you know anything about carty b you know how much the everyday person appeals to her and feel like they're connected with her but also she still speaks to them even in her

rollout. Just set her phone up and going live and talking about things. But she's, yeah, she's working with Walmart to roll out this album and make it where people can buy physical copies and it's been doing so well. Cardi are here doing her thing, y'all. I listen, I just, I think nowadays in 2025, it's like, okay, you got the music and how good is that? How good is the product? You also have how good is the marketing, the rollout, the visuals and all the things. But the strategy, this strategy was so smart. It was like, bring it right to your front door. Period. Which is very symbolic of Cardi B and what she's been her whole career. Instead of us having to wait for media outlets to get statements and things of that nature, Cardi B just hops on live or Twitter spaces. She's always straight at you. It's like direct to consumer. That is where she leans in, you know, best. And she makes it fly. So incredibly smart of her. One of the things that I will say, we talk to her on the breakfast club. Make sure you guys going to check out that full interview. And I'd ask her about, you know, her coming at Bia on pretty. and petty as fuck, which is one of the songs on the album.

And why now? Here's what she had to say. Pretty and petty as fuck, you come out the gate. Out the gate. Straight at beer. Yeah. At this point, though, like, I mean, so that reignites everything. Because I remember y'all were going back and forth.

Your whole thing was you felt like you're just doing this because you want my platform. You want attention. I'm going to give it to you and then I'm done with it. This reignites it all. Like, why even address her again on the album? Because you mentioned my kids trying to be cute. There's going to be times that like people throw shots at you or like there's going to be times like, you know, like when she did her little this and it was trash.

But it's like everything on social media is going to be seen. So when my kids grow up one day and they see that you mentioned them and then they and they're going to ask me like, so what you said, what you did, I'm not going to tell my kids like, you know, I just felt like she took the high road because she lost because people wasn't on her side. Now, I'm not saying that to my kids. You know what it is? I feel like last year every artist was like beefing.

Girl. Like every artist was beefing and I thought and I think she was going to get a moment out of that because she thought that I was copying her and I had a conversation with her first we was cursing each other out then I had a real conversation with her and I was like listen I'm not copying you I don't even look at you like you're not a person that I look at or I'm inspired by and the conversation ended then she kept going because of a music video and it's like oh girl you definitely not on the moonboard then this bitch right it'd be a lot of funny shit behind the scenes it really be a lot of funny shit behind the scenes

this producer that was working with like my ex he was telling he was going around saying that I was messing with a guy and there was allegedly a sex tape or something right yes and I was like what me hell no it was a lie and it was ridiculous and a bitch can say no damn to farm

because I got messages when I first started talking to him and I was like I have to get to the bottom of who's saying that she was trying to plant a seed that I was cheating on this guy with a blood nigger but you think that I'm you're not from the hood

so to you because I'm blood you think that I'm like oh I'm pressed to mess with the blood that's nothing to me that's like being around Dominicans or something like that's like that don't mean nothing to me everybody's Macball everybody this everybody and then this is New York

one thing about a New York person or anybody they're gonna talk and it's like and I know it was confirmed that it was heard that was going around with that room because when she did her this, she kept saying like, oh, why, say how you, how you like a cheater, some shit like that. I forgot what she was saying. But it was like, so say, say who I was, say who I was in it with.

Say it. Oh, you just made that up. You just made that up. You just made that up. You was being messy. And there's an eye, bitch. Now I got a wet belt for you. And you ain't even going to know when it's coming.

Have you ever got hit with a wet belt? And I tried to get her to name some of the other rap girls that she might be coming at on this album because there had been, you know, rumors and reports that she was coming for the girls. She wouldn't name them. But once the album dropped, because I listened to the album before the interview

to prepare for it. And I caught some of the shit talking, but I didn't catch directly who. I did think, and I wanted to ask her this, but I didn't get to it. The whole first rap bitch to cover Vogue, sorry for the vulgar language, guys. That's just the line in the song.

Cardi B mentions that in a song that she has called Imaginary Players. And a lot of people believe that that was, you know, shade towards Nikki Minaj because Nikki Minaj has been in Vogue, but she just recently did U.S. Vogue. And I wanted to ask her about that but didn't get a chance to. But I did not know that she was coming at J.T., who was another rap artist formerly from the group, the City Girls, that went over my head. But she had said something in our interview that made me kind of think that that's who she was talking about. She had talked about rap girls and, you know, it get weird with rap girls because they'll be friends and she'll reach out and be friends with them and try to build them up.

But the minute they got to turn on her for somebody else, they do. Now I get it. I'm like, oh, she was talking about J.T. because she's had back and forth with J.T. And somehow the Nikki Minaj conversation came into that back and forth because J.T. has, you know, went on the role with Nikki Minaj and all the things. And I'm like, oh. So she was really coming at the girls'est album, y'all. it's here But speaking of music

I mentioned to you guys in the beginning of this episode that I am here in Vegas we are doing the I heart music festival It's my first I heart music festival And of course I'm taking you guys with me I'm really excited for it You know there's tons of performances

They have Bailey Zimmerman Big X the Plug I'm really excited to see Big XA Plug perform I am a fan Brian Adams Diplo at Shearing I'm a fan of Diplo and As Shearing as well Glorilla

Jelly Roll, Justice, L.L. Cool J. Mariah Carey. Y'all, I am going to cry when I see Mariah Carey at the stage. And she better do my songs. Like, I love old school Mariah Carey when she was leaning into her rap bag and she wanted to get gritty and she was working with Jermaine DePree. And, you know, all the conversations that people have about like what revived her career. Those songs in that moment, that's what I want to see tonight. I'm excited for that. They also have Maroon 5 performing Sammy Hagar, Tate McCray, The Offspring, Tim McGraw, and there's a lot more people. I will be taking you guys behind the scenes and into the festival with me via the Breakfast Club's Twitch and their TikTok Live account. So it's the Breakfast Club on TikTok and on Twitch. Follow there.

I will be taking you guys literally into the festival with me, starting tonight at 7.30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time. Today, September 19th. And then tomorrow, September 20th as well. And follow me on socials. I'm Lauren LaRosa everywhere. L-O-R-E-N-L-R-O-S-A. I'll be posting all of my experience there.

At the end of the day, you guys could be anywhere with anybody talking about all of these things, but y'all choose to be right here with me. I am always so appreciative of you guys. My lowriders, I will see you guys in my next episode. And if you're coming from the podcast over to my social media to go to the I-Hurt Festival with me, comment lowriders. So I know it's my podcast family. See you guys soon.

I'm Jorge Ramos. And I'm Paola Ramos. Together we're launching The Moment, a new podcast about what it means to live through a time, as uncertain as this one. We sit down with politicians, artists, and activists to bring you death and analysis from a unique Latino perspective. The moment is a space for the conversations

we've been having us father and daughter for years. Listen to The Moment with Jorge Ramos and Paola Ramos. on the iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcasts. I'm Hunter, host of Hunting for Answers on the Black Effect Podcast Network. Join me every weekday as I share bite-sized stories of missing and murdered black women and girls in America. Stories like Erica Hunt. A young mother vanished without a trace after a family gathering on 4th of July weekend, 2016. No goodbyes, no clues, just gone.

Listen to Hunting for Answers every weekday on the Black Effect Podcast Network, iHeartRadio app, Apple Podcasts, or wherever you get your podcast. It's important that we just reassure people that they're not alone, and there is help out there. The Good Stuff Podcast Season 2 takes a deep look into One Tribe Foundation, a non-profit fighting suicide in the veteran community. September is National Suicide Prevention Month, so join host Jacob and Ashley Schick as they bring you to the front lines of One Tribe's mission. One Tribe, save my life twice.

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