{"id":221257,"date":"2026-01-07T10:32:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:32:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221257\/"},"modified":"2026-01-07T10:32:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-07T10:32:07","slug":"cardi-b-begins-tour-rehearsals-watch-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/221257\/","title":{"rendered":"Cardi B Begins Tour Rehearsals: Watch Video"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/artist\/cardi-b\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cardi B<\/a> is gearing up for her first headlining arena trek, with just over a month until her <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/cardi-b-2026-north-american-tour-little-miss-drama-dates-1236067274\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Little Miss Drama Tour<\/a> kicks off in Palm Desert, California, on Feb. 11.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tAs the calendar turns to 2026, Cardi started tour rehearsals on Tuesday (Jan. 6), and she posted a clip on <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/stories\/iamcardib\/3804310800417614480\/\">her Instagram Story <\/a>working on some choreography with a couple of back-up dancers in the studio. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Bronx rapper appeared to be happy with the results from day one. \u201cI ain\u2019t do so bad first day of rehearsal\u2026.I\u2019m finding the pocket,\u201d she wrote. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tCardi knows the pressure\u2019s on to deliver in her first time on the road. Last month, she got emotional <a rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reels\/DSwY6VbDTXK\">posting to social media<\/a> after seeing fans gift tickets to her tour for Christmas to friends and family. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cThese videos of people receiving my concert tickets for Christmas gifts, they making me so happy, but then again, I\u2019m thinking like, \u2018God damn, I gotta really work hard,\u201d she said. \u201d People are receiving me for Christmas. I gotta give it all I got. Don\u2019t worry, y\u2019all. I\u2019m finna go to work.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe North American trek is scheduled for 36 dates, including stops in Las Vegas, Miami, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Baltimore, Philly, NYC, Charlotte, Toronto and will wrap up with a pair of shows in Atlanta. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\t\u201cI know I\u2019m a good performer,\u201d Cardi told <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/rb-hip-hop\/cardi-b-billboard-cover-story-2025-rb-hip-hop-power-players-1236056447\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Billboard <\/a>as part of her 2025 cover story. \u201cWell, am I? No, I\u2019m great. I\u2019m actually really great because I was a stripper. But no, I think my personal tour is not going to be like any other performances that I\u2019ve ever had. From the aesthetics to the look to even the way I perform, I\u2019m going to be doing things that I don\u2019t normally do, like work out, because I want to be the best. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tShe continued: \u201cI\u2019ve been going to so many different tours. I went to the\u00a0Madonna\u00a0show and the Beyonc\u00e9 show. I can\u2019t perform like Beyonc\u00e9, but you can\u2019t half-a\u2014 nothing. I always say this: I have two left feet, but I\u2019m going to have to get a fake leg. A right one because I\u2019m going to give it my all. This is going to be one of the greatest tours. I\u2019m going to make it the best.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/ lrv-u-margin-lr-auto  lrv-a-font-body-m   \">\n\tThe Little Miss Drama Tour comes in support of Cardi\u2019s sophomore album, Am I the Drama?, which <a href=\"https:\/\/www.billboard.com\/music\/chart-beat\/cardi-b-am-i-the-drama-numer-one-billboard-200-chart-1236077406\/#:~:text=9%2F28%2F2025-,Cardi%20B%20Scores%20Second%20No.,with%20the%20TRON%3A%20Ares%20soundtrack.\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">topped the Billboard 200<\/a> in September with 200,000 equivalent album units earned in the first week. <\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/www.instagram.com\/embed.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cardi B is gearing up for her first headlining arena trek, with just over a month until her&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":37442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[156,2526,157,3296,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-221257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-genre-hiphop","tag-music","tag-music-news","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221257","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=221257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221257\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/37442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}