Six years after her last tour wrapped, the Bronx rapper walked onto the Chase Center stage on Monday night in a crystal bodysuit and reminded 18,000 people why they'd bothered waiting. The Little Miss Drama Tour is her first proper concert run since 2020, and it arrived with the kind of fanfare you'd expect from someone who spent the last few years having babies, divorcing Offset very publicly, and somehow still topping the charts.
The San Francisco show kicked off a 42-date North American leg running through May. She'd already made noise a week earlier with that surpriseSuper Bowlcameo, popping up during Kendrick Lamar and SZA's halftime show like she'd been on the bill the whole time,AZ Central reported.
The NFL still hasn't said whether she got paid. Headliners usually don't, but then again, she wasn't technically a headliner.
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The 90-minute set pulled from her new album and the hits people actually came to hear. 'Crown' opened things slowly before she launched into 'Hot Shit' and 'WAP'. Three songs deep, she'd already changed outfits twice. By the end of the night, it was four or five. Nobody was counting.
'Bodak Yellow' got the biggest reaction, obviously. That's the one that made her famous back in 2017. She closed with 'I Like It', theBad Bunnyand J Balvin collab that hit No. 1 in 2018 and refuses to die at weddings.
Between songs, she talked about needing time off for her kids and her head. She's got three with Offset, who's now her ex-husband after a divorce that played out acrossInstagramlike a serialised drama nobody asked for. Both of them have addressed it in their music since, which is either cathartic or exhausting, depending on how invested you are.
'I needed that time,' she told the crowd. 'But I missed this. I missed y'all.'
Whether that's true or just good stage banter is anyone's guess. Either way, it worked.
The production was absurd in the best way. LED screens everywhere, pyrotechnics, 16 dancers, a birdcage that lifted her 20 feet above the stage, a hydraulic platform that brought her up through the floor whilst fake money rained down. Subtlety wasn't the brief. The whole thing looked expensive, which it probably was.
Source: International Business Times UK
