Cardi B has once again made headlines—not just with her music, but with her life. In a recent interview on CBS Mornings, the Grammy-winner revealed she is expecting her fourth child, her first with NFL wide receiver Stefon Diggs. Vogue+2CBS News+2 The baby is due sometime before the start of her next big project, the Little Miss Dramatour, which is slated to begin in February 2026. Vogue+3CBS News+3Wikipedia+3
This announcement comes just as Cardi drops her highly anticipated second studio album, Am I The Drama?, released September 19, 2025, via Atlantic Records. Wikipedia+2KCRA+2 The rollout has been dramatic in every sense—personally, musically, and from a marketing perspective. It’s her first album since Invasion of Privacy (2018), and fans have been waiting anxiously for what she’d deliver next. KCRA+1
Album Highlights & Features
Am I The Drama? features 23 tracks with an all-star lineup of collaborators including Janet Jackson, Lizzo, Selena Gomez, Megan Thee Stallion, Kehlani, Tyla, and Summer Walker. KCRA+2Wikipedia+2 The title and many of the songs engage with criticism, public scrutiny, and Cardi’s own trials—legal and personal—and serve as much confession as they do defiance. KCRA+2Music Times+2 She’s been vocal about how releasing music while pregnant comes with its own pressures, including criticism from the outside, and the tension between vulnerability and strength. CBS News+2KCRA+2
Record-Setting Release & Marketing Prowess
In a bold marketing move, Cardi B partnered with Walmart and a drone delivery service to set a new Guinness World Record for the most drone deliveries in one hour tied to an album release. Music Times+1 The stunt involved hundreds of drones dropping physical copies of Am I The Drama? across various areas—an imaginative strategy fusing spectacle and commerce. Fans received not just music, but moments. Music Times
Balancing the Personal & the Professional
While she manages an album release, a record-breaking promotion, and tour preparations, Cardi also speaks about how the pregnancy has made certain things more meaningful. According to her CBS interview, she feels strong, powerful, and supported—especially by Stefon Diggs. She also shared that at times she has felt overwhelmed by criticism, even having anxiety over the scrutiny, but that having “someone who makes you feel safe” has helped buoy her confidence. CBS News+1
The Little Miss Drama Tour—her first arena tour supporting Am I The Drama?—will officially begin in February 2026. Cardi has made it clear that her personal life doesn’t pause for show business, and that she intends to deliver performances with all her strength, even while pregnant. CBS News+2KCRA+2
Why It’s Making History
Cardi B is doing something rare: harmonizing vulnerability with power; embracing motherhood while delivering artistry; engaging with her critics while leaning into her fans. In a moment when many artists hide or delay personal news, Cardi is merging the personal with the professional. Her pregnancy isn’t a sidebar—it’s part of the narrative of Am I The Drama? Her album success, tour plans, world record promotion, and personal announcement all feed into a larger image of resilience, reinvention, and reclamation of narrative.
As Cardi herself put it, she is doing “this work while creating a baby.” Vogue+1 Am I The Drama? isn’t just an album—it’s a statement about what it means to rise, to pour oneself into art, and to hold multiple truths at once: that a person can be vulnerable, unstoppable, pregnant, ambitious, afraid, and fearless, all at the same time.
Sources & Credits:
- Cardi B pregnancy announcement with Stefon Diggs, CBS Morning interview. CBS News+2Vogue+2
- Am I The Drama? album details: release date, features, number of tracks. Wikipedia+2KCRA+2
- Guinness World Record drone delivery promotion. Music Times+1
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