Cardi B had some fans in their feelings when she performed at Rolling Loud Thailand earlier this week – even moving one excited supporter to tears.
The show went down on Thursday (April 13), with a packed house of nearly 35,000 in the building to watch Bardi hit the stage. It was the Bronx rapper’s first time performing in Thailand and one of her first live shows anywhere in some time, and the fans were clearly hyped to see her.
“THAILAND OWES ME NOTHING!!!” Cardi B tweeted when she got off stage. “Thank you soooo much …..Either way you slice bottom line IM THE TOP BITCH !!!!!!…..But question? Why this country soooooo hot ?”
Videos from the performance see her run through her catalog of hits from her debut album Invasion of Privacy, which turned five earlier this month. Check out the clips below.
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Released in April 2018, Invasion of Privacy was an immediate success, debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 with over 250,000 equivalent first-week sales. It has since been certified triple platinum by the RIAA (Recording Industry Association of America).
The album was also met with widespread critical acclaim, winning Best Rap Album at the 2019 Grammy Awards — beating out Travis Scott’s Astroworld, Pusha T’s Daytona, Nipsey Hussle’s Victory Lap and Mac Miller’s Swimming.
Its legacy has only grown in the years since its release by helping to write Cardi B into the history books. In March 2021, she became the first female rapper ever to earn a diamond song thanks to “Bodak Yellow.” (She has since extended her record with a further two diamond singles.)
The following year, Invasion of Privacy became the first album to have all of its tracks certified platinum or higher by the RIAA.
Despite the enormous success of her debut and excitement for a follow-up project, Cardi’s sophomore album has been rather elusive. During a candid Instagram Live broadcast last year, the mother-of-two admitted that her struggle with anxiety is partly to blame for the delay.
“I’ve been having a lot of anxiety, because I know right after I drop my album, I have to go out on tour and I have bad separation anxiety from my kids,” she said.
“When it comes to music and everything, I just be feeling like I don’t be liking anything. I feel like I got so many songs and I don’t like anything. I feel like nothing is good enough… And I got so much money saved up I just be like, ‘Yeah, whatever the fuck.’”
She added: “Making music to me has become like a job that gives me anxiety because everybody just critiques everything that I do. Sometimes you don’t want to do something that gives you that much anxiety, so I just be freezing myself, but I have to let that go. I have to release more music — I have to go out there.”
There may yet be hope for a new Cardi B album dropping soon, however, as the 30-year-old was recently announced as the headliner of this year’s Hot 97 Summer Jam. The show goes down on June 4 at the UBS Arena in Long Island, New York.
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