Next year marks a decade since Cardi B made her grand entrance with “Bodak Yellow.” Much has happened since, including two No. 1 albums, parenthood, a Grammy, multiple hits and records smashed. And her ongoing Little Miss Drama Tour, Cardi’s first headlining arena trek.
The Bronx rapper is currently on home turf. Ahead of her sold-out shows Wednesday (March 25) and Thursday (March 26) at Madison Square Garden, Cardi stopped by The Tonight Show for a chat with Jimmy Fallon on her concerts, career, and her new haircare and beauty line, Grow-Good.
A stacked MSG is great, with a touch of downside. Cardi has scores of family members and friends who all want tickets. “I’m just so overwhelmed,” she tells Fallon.
The Little Miss Drama Tour got underway Feb. 11 at Acrisure Arena in Palm Desert, CA, and is slated to wrap on April 18 with the second of two shows at Atlanta’s State Farm Arena. For those uninitiated, Cardi’s trek is a good time. Her ambition is to make it “fun,” she explains. “I make sure that it’s like a party. If I could give free liquor out, I would.”
At one point in the show, she flies over the crowd. Confronting her fear of heights to do so. She does it “for the plot,” she admits. She’s always got to go “over the top” with her audience, even if that means “risking your own life.”
With that upcoming 10-year anniversary of her breakthrough Billboard Hot 100 chart leader, Fallon pondered whether Cardi had any advice to her younger self. “I would tell myself, why are you arguing with people on Twitter? Why are you doing that, girl?,” she reflects. Those beefs, they might’ve been a time-burn, sometimes roaring for 13 hours. But, like her shows, “it was fun.”
Cardi also used her spot on Fallon’s late-night NBC show to present her range of Grow-Good goodies, pre-sales for which are now open.
The 33-year-old artist has surprised fans with special guest appearances during her two-hour tour dates, including Megan Thee Stallion, GloRilla, Kehlani and Tyla. Who will strut the stage at MSG? Time will tell.
Watch her interview with Fallon below.
