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Rap star Cardi B is preparing to drop her new album, Am I The Drama? As her release date draws nearer, Cardi dropped her second single off the upcoming project titled Imaginary Playaz. The song is a rendition of Jay-Z’s Imaginary Player off his 1997 project In My Lifetime Volume 1.
Cardi B Claps Back at Critics of Her Jay-Z Remake
Despite getting the blessing from Jay-Z to use the sample, her rendition of the song has received underwhelming reviews. However, the femcee had a response to a disappointing debut. She vowed that the song would have much more of an impact next week.
“The charts next Monday …my song is number 1 on iTunes ..you don’t even know what you’re talking about but got a mouthful,” she said in the comments section of an Instagram post (via AllHipHop).
The comment was in response to a clip that suggested that Jay-Z only cleared the sample to get back at Nicki Minaj, who has targeted the Roc Nation Founder on social media over the last several months. But she insisted that it isn’t the case.
Among the critics of Cardi’s new song is rapper-turned-podcaster Joe Budden. During a recent episode of his self-named podcast, Joe revealed that he is not a fan of the new song. However, he clarified that he didn’t have an issue with the lyrics of the track. It was Cardi’s delivery of the lyrics that left him disappointed.
“We’re gonna shout out the writers. The writers killed. This is not about the writers. The writers killed,” Budden said.
“That wasn’t enough. That delivery, those punch-ins, how choppy that was… ‘Imaginary Players,’ for y’all that wasn’t there, Hov, when that dropped, was a much better rapper than that. It was just fly because of the cadence and the flow and what he was saying, his aura and voice control. Cardi’s in the same pitch, same tone, sounding choppy, not smooth, bars are there, but this is not the beat for that.”
