Cardi B Says She Plans to Be More Active, and Blames Retrograde

Cardi B says she plans to be more active from here on, after a quieter stretch she put down partly to the stars. She told her Bardi Gang fans that she has not been as "outside" as she wanted to be in recent months, according to Billboard, which reported her remarks on 9 November 2026.

"I know you guys want some updates, I know you guys want me outside, I know you guys want me to be more active," she said. She added that she has been "going through a couple of things these past months," without giving details.

Part of the explanation, she suggested, was planetary. "I don't know if it's this Mercury, Venus, whatever retrograde we in," she said. Retrograde is an astrology term for the period when a planet appears to move backwards as seen from Earth. A horoscope explainer from Elle, published 29 October 2026, puts Mercury and Venus in a double retrograde from 25 October to 13 November 2026.

Cardi B was blunt about how it has felt. "This retrograde is whooping our ass," she said, adding that "it's almost over." She also said, "I'm getting my superpowers back."

Her public calendar is about to fill up. On 21 November 2026 she will co-headline Grand Theft Auto VI: The Festival in Miami, alongside Travis Scott & Cactus Jack. The event celebrates the release of the video game on 19 November. Four days later, on 24 November, she will receive Billboard Canada's first-ever Global Woman of the Year award at Billboard Canada Women in Music in Toronto.

Those two dates are the first confirmed appearances, and they give fans a clear sense of when Cardi B will next be in front of a crowd.