‘I’m Just So Overwhelmed’: Cardi B Talks Sold-Out MSG Concerts on ‘Fallon’

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...