While Nicki Minaj fans were busy measuring the Little Miss Drama tour against the Pink Friday 2 run, Cardi B was looking somewhere else entirely. During a recent X Spaces session, she redirected the conversation away from rap rivalries and pointed toward Bad Bunny as the artist whose numbers she actually wants to match. Without mentioning Nicki by name, her message landed clearly: the people comparing the two are thinking about the wrong competition.

Cardi said she wants to sell out shows drawing 90,000 people, the kind of figures Bad Bunny has been putting up consistently. She made clear that her ambitions sit at the stadium level, not the arena level, and that anyone measuring her against a smaller target is missing the point of where she is trying to go.

Cardi on why she’s not there yet

What made the X Spaces moment notable was not just the ambition but the accountability that came with it. Cardi acknowledged openly that her current output has not matched her goals. She said she wants to do more and believes she deserves to do more, but recognized that the gap between where she is and where she wants to be comes down to not releasing enough music. She followed that admission with a straightforward conclusion: the work has to come first.

She also put a financial figure on her stadium vision, saying she wants to generate $14 million across two shows. That number paired with a 90,000-seat sellout target gives a concrete shape to goals that might otherwise read as vague ambition.

How the Little Miss Drama tour ended

The tour wrapped on April 18 with a final show at State Farm Arena in Atlanta. Missy Elliott appeared as a surprise guest, closing out the run on a high note. The fact that the show happened at all was not a given. Earlier in the tour, Cardi came close to canceling a performance after a confrontation with venue staff that she described on Instagram Live as unnecessary and disrespectful. The situation escalated publicly before the show went on as scheduled.

Cardi also hinted last month at a possible European leg, though nothing has been confirmed. For now, the domestic run is finished.

What comes after the tour

With the Little Miss Drama dates behind her, Cardi described feeling a mix of relief and uncertainty about what fills the space next. She said she was emotionally attached to the tour even as exhaustion was setting in, and that the end of a run always raises the question of what comes next.

Her immediate plan does not include a formal vacation. Instead, she said she wants to simply be present and enjoy time outside of a work schedule. She noted that she had spent two consecutive summers pregnant and that a stretch of personal freedom was overdue.

The Bad Cardi benchmark

The throughline of the X Spaces conversation was focus. Cardi was not venting about tour drama or responding to fan comparisons. She was describing a version of her career that does not exist yet and explaining what she thinks it will take to get there. More music, bigger venues, nine-figure grosses across a short run. The bar she is setting for herself has nothing to do with where she has already been.