Will Cardi B's divorce and new pregnancy keep her from dropping that second album? We know the answer

If one were to analyze Cardi B's career, that person might say she has a love-hate relationship with being a rapper and celebrity. Mainly, because she's only dropped one album so far, 2018's Invasion of Privacy, despite being uber-famous.

After that LP, she featured on other people's songs and released a couple of singles this year, "Like What (Freestyle)" and "Enough (Miami)." Her fans immediately expressed excitement about those songs coming out and continued to beg her for that sophomore album, which they've been doing for years now. But will Cardi be able to grant their wishes with the sudden changes in her life?

On Thursday, August 1, the New York Post reported that Cardi filed for divorce from Offset, her husband of seven years. Not only that, she's pregnant, which she announced on Instagram on the same day as the divorce report. "With every ending comes a new beginning!" wrote Cardi in part. Now, whether that new beginning involves a new album isn't clear. However, according to TMZ, the divorce and pregnancy won't stop her from releasing that highly anticipated second LP, said to be 75 percent done.

But here's the thing: Cardi has gone back and forth about delivering the project this year because in May, she said it'll definitely arrive before 2025 hits, then she said it wouldn't after being pestered by fans. In fact, Cardi gave some insight into why it's taken so long to release that second album, which she chalked up to having anxiety.

"I do have anxiety," she told her social media followers in December 2022. "I've been having a lot of anxiety ’cause I know right after I drop my album I have to go on tour. And I have bad separation anxiety from my kids ... When it comes to the music, I just be feeling like I don't be liking anything. I feel like I got so many songs, I just don't like nothing. Like nothing is good enough."

"I used to love to make music," Cardi continued. " But now, making music to me has become a job that gives me anxiety. Everybody just critique everything that I do that it's just like sometimes you just don't want to do something that may give you that much anxiety."

But a couple of years after that Live session, Cardi excited her fans by saying a new album is coming, and it'll arrive in 2024. "6 years ago I released my first album and it broke so many records GAH LEE!!" she tweeted. "6 years later I’m preparing to drop the next one this year.. it’s so different from what everyone is expecting and I’m sooo excited."

Then the following month, an X user named Ty mocked Cardi's claims that a new album would arrive, which only angered her. “No it's just annoying this means a lot to me and it's always a complain and crying wit this p---y ass fanbase," she responded in a now-deleted tweet shared by Complex. "No, the problem is that you was even complaining when I was dropping music as well."

As for Cardi's impending divorce from Offset, it's been reported that she's already filed divorce papers and wants custody of their children, Wave and Kulture, plus, their unborn child. TMZ reported that Offset fathered her third child, by the way, and she wants child support for all three kids.

It was also said the divorce has nothing to do with a rumor that the Migos rapper cheated with a woman who goes by PrettyRedz, a claim that he denied. To add, this new paper work marks the second time Cardi filed for divorce from her husband since she first did it in 2020 but later decided to stay with him.

Plus, in regards to that second album, one way wonder if Offset will have anything to do with it. That's because he directed the video to her song "Like What (Freestyle)" and has been one of her cheerleaders when it comes to dropping new music.

He encouraged her to do so on social media earlier this year and accused her of being scared. "Stop being scary and drop the album," wrote Offset on Instagram Stories, later shared by People. So, maybe Cardi will take that advice and give fans what they've been craving. Either that, or she'll take some time off to adjust to single motherhood and having a newborn child.