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"I cannot just go with what's hot."
Cardi B recently revealed plans to drop her sophomore album, tentatively titled Tiger Woods, next year. In a new Billboard interview, the Bronx rapper opened up about the challenges she's been facing while working on the follow-up to her No. 1 debut album, Invasion of Privacy.

After sharing that the project is on her mind "24/7," Cardi spoke about initially being hesitant about trying different sounds because they don't fit in with current trends. However, the MC eventually remembered staying true to herself is what worked for her in the first place.

"There's certain music that I want to do, but I feel like, 'Is people interested in that?'" she explained. "I feel like it's more like a twerk sound going on right now. It's just like, 'Should I just do my music around that?' But I cannot just go with what's hot. I still gotta go with what I want to do."

Cardi then gave insight into the strategy for recording her first album. "I wasn't going with what's hot. I was going with what I want people to hear, and what I like," she said. "So that's what I'm doing now. I'm just having fun in the studio 'cause if you think about 'Oh my gosh, my first album was like this. I got to have the same recipe,' it's just not going to work."

It's worth noting, however, that in an October 2017 interview with Rolling Stone, Cardi spoke about the necessity of chasing popular sounds. "It's so sad to say, and I don't want to be the one to say it, but you gotta follow the trend," she said. "This generation loves to get high. They love to be on drugs. This is why they on that shit: They don't want to think about what you're saying."

In the end, Invasion of Privacy included a variety of sounds, from the trap rap of the 21 Savage-assisted "Bartier Cardi" to the poppier "Be Careful" to the Latin crossover of her chart-topping hit, "I Like It."

Elsewhere in the interview, Cardi spoke about the impact of her breakout hit, "Bodak Yellow." The rapper echoed her previous thoughts about its success opening more doors for women in rap.

"I feel like the music industry, the labels started to see that there is more to come with female artists," she said. "Like, it could happen, it could work. More than one could happen."

[reekz]

it's about to be spicy 🌶 

https://twitter.com/BardiUpdatess/status/1195096876477042696

[Plastic.]

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This should be interesting.

[Plastic.]

"I wasn't going with what's hot"

Bitch you released a trap album in a trap dominated industry, is she dumb 

[reekz]

"Cardi B, I'm back bitches. Ion wanna hear I'm acting different. Same bitches that keep talking bout me (Plastic) is the same bitches that be ass eatin."

[reekz]

Can't wait til this new album. 

i need DaBaby, Travis on a song like today. 

[BAPHOMET.]

Can you just die....

[reekz]

Wow so much hate in your blood

[yummy]

it's about to be spicy 🌶

https://twitter.com/BardiUpdatess/status/1195096876477042696

Not Brazilian funk 

It'll be the same strip club themed music with a Travis Scott/Meek Mill/Rick Ross feature thrown in the mix

[reekz]

Thank god it want be an awful sequel. No Invasion of Privacy Reloaded mess with medication music. 

[Barbie Dangerous]

IOP was a good ass album because it was trendy. She's a trendY artist but I definitely feel like it's worth the risk because that formula isn't gonna work this time around..

[🦚]

it's about to be spicy 🌶

https://twitter.com/BardiUpdatess/status/1195096876477042696

Not Brazilian funk 

It'll be the same strip club themed music with a Travis Scott/Meek Mill/Rick Ross feature thrown in the mix

And you will be twerking those flat cakes. PeriodT

[reekz]

What was trendy about it? Her beats was hard af and everybody wanted them. Bodak, Be Careful, I Like It, Ring are timeless songs with universal lyrics and nothing was trendy about them.  It would have been a trend if she did music like Travis. I think you girls just like to find shot at this point because it makes no sense at all. If that's the case, call Hard Core a trend too because it's an female rap bible that sound like it's time. 

[reekz]

And please....barbs don't come in here talking about a fucking trend because I'm prepared to get on that cartoon  playhouse Pink Friday and that horrible Jason sequel she attempt. 

[Barbie Dangerous]

It's not a bad thing. Bodak, Money Bag, Drip, I Like It Bartier etc aren't trendy?