With just over a month out until Cardi B’s anticipated sophomore album arrives, the Bronx native follows up “Outside” with the release of her “Imaginary Playerz” single, which hit streaming services on Friday (Aug. 15).

The track samples Jay-Z’s legendary “Imaginary Players” from his 1997 In My Lifetime, Vol. 1. Earlier this week, Cardi revealed she received a stamp of approval from Hov.

“If he didn’t approve it, I probably wouldn’t even feel a certain type of way neither, because it’s like, ‘OK, maybe I just had to come a little bit harder,'” she said in an X Spaces. “But I’m glad that I came hard and he loved it.”

Cardi announced the single on Monday (Aug. 11) while revealing the opulent cover art, which finds her in a white fur coat and sitting on the front of a matching Rolls-Royce.

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