From the Bronx to the Billboard: The Record Breaking Cardi B Successful Tour Era

Cardi B’s Little Miss Drama Tour updates are taking over my timeline, and can we just talk about how she is officially the moment? Cardi just wrapped up her “Little Miss Drama Tour,” and the numbers are absolutely jaw dropping. She grossed over $70 million across 35 dates, making it the highest grossing debut arena tour by a female rapper in history. From selling out back to back nights at the Kia Forum in LA to making history at Madison Square Garden with a massive $5.3 million box office report, she is proving that her star power is only getting brighter. It is so inspiring to see her go from viral social media moments to selling out arenas across North America, all while staying completely true to her Bronx roots.

For anyone who needs a refresher on her legendary background, Belcalis Marlenis Almánzar didn’t just wake up a global superstar. She grew up in the Highbridge neighborhood of the Bronx and worked incredibly hard to escape poverty and domestic violence, famously turning to the dance world to save up money for her education and a better life. Her unfiltered, hilarious, and unapologetic personality first went viral on Vine and Instagram before she became the breakout star of Love & Hip Hop: New York. Since then, she has smashed every ceiling in the industry, from being the first solo female rapper to win a Grammy for Best Rap Album to becoming the only female rapper with two albums debuting at number one on the Billboard 200.

The production for this tour was a literal masterpiece, featuring 37 songs that spanned her entire career from “Bodak Yellow” to tracks from her newest album, Am I the Drama?. She brought out the big guns for her guests too, with surprise appearances from legends like Missy Elliott, Jeezy, and Lil’ Kim. One of the sweetest highlights was seeing her bring her kids, Kulture and Wave, onstage at MSG before performing “Girls Like You,” proving she is still the ultimate relatable mama even in the middle of a world tour. With her second album already 3x Platinum and her tour setting new benchmarks, we are just living in Cardi’s world right now and we are not mad at it at all!