Cardi B performs in bathrobe after her outfit rips at Bonnaroo
Ahead of her appearance at Bonnaroo, Cardi B had to bow out of several planned gigs due to plastic surgery. After weeks of worry from ticketholders, the world-famous rapper did indeed make it to the festival stage in Manchester, Tennessee – but still, she faced setbacks.
“I just wanna let y’all know that my outfit rip,” she told her audience, just a few songs into her set. She pressed through for a couple of minutes, then vanished from the stage. After a time-filling singalong of “Old Town Road,” she reemerged – in a white bathrobe.
“We gonna keep it moving, baby,” she said. “We gonna keep it sexy. I don’t know how in this (expletive) robe, but we gonna do it!”
“Keep it moving” was a mantra during her brisk 45-minute set, as a rare female rap star, who’s used to working harder than anyone else in the room – or on a festival lineup.
In all seriousness, she just might be more famous than all three of Bonnaroo’s “headliners” put together.
But on Sunday night – in the final hours of the festival, she found herself on Bonnaroo’s second largest stage.
Needless to say, it was a zoo around the Which Stage, as fans scurried for a vantage point.
Cardi B and her dancers tore through every hit she’s enjoyed in three short years: “I Like It,” “Money,” and her collaborations with Bruno Mars (“Please Me,” “Finesse”), Maroon 5 (“Girls Like You.”) and closing with her breakout chart-topper “Bodak Yellow.”