Rap superstar Cardi B has taken a page out of boxers trash talking— often used to boost pay-per-view events — to goose slow ticket sales for an upcoming Little Miss Drama tour stop in Hamilton, Ontario.
“And I’m letting you Canadians know, if you break my sold-out streak, I don’t know what I’m going to do… But y’all better go buy them tickets,” the Grammy-winning artist said in an X post. She estimated a March 31 date at the TD Coliseum in Hamilton was around 80 percent sold out, and a look at the Ticketmaster site indicates lots of seats are still up for grabs.
“I swear to God, if you break my streak – y’all better go buy tickets. Y’all not breaking my perfectly sold out streak,” Cardi B repeated.
Some locals took to social media to complain about high tickets sales for the Hamilton concert, priced from $91.15 to $461.97 on Ticketmaster. Others cited the rapper having a concert the previous night on March 30 in Toronto, just an hour up the road from Hamilton.
The Toronto date is nearly sold out, according to Ticketmaster’s website, and ticket prices range from $126 to $792. The Grammy-winning pop star recently sold out two consecutive nights at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles and looking to keep her streak going across North America as her headline tour runs through to April.
On Feb. 20, the rapper took to X to warn Vancouver fans to fill the Rogers Arena on Feb. 21. “Five sold out shows back to back… packed to the brim!! Vancouver y’all better not break my streak. See y’all tomorrow!!! For now… where the Tim Horton’s at???,” she wrote at the time.
The Little Miss Drama tour is supporting Cardi B’s second studio album, Am I the Drama? and kicked off in Palm Desert, California, before a wrap in Atlanta.
