Fan reports Cardi B to police after mic-throwing incident at concert
Over the weekend, video of Cardi B hurling a mic into a Las Vegas crowd exploded across social media and gossip sites. Footage showed that the rapper was interrupted mid-song by a splash of water from the crowd, and she then retaliated by throwing her microphone toward the audience.
The day after Cardi B’s show, a concertgoer reported the incident to the police.
The Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department confirmed the report on Monday, saying the alleged victim reported she was “struck by an item that was thrown from the stage.”
“The incident has been documented on a police report and no arrest or citations have been issued,” the LVMPD said in a statement. It is unclear if charges will be filed. Representatives for Cardi B did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Cardi B’s concert at Drai’s Beachclub & Nightclub in Las Vegas briefly spun into chaos Saturday after a fan in the crowd appeared to splash the rapper with a drink. The incident, which was caught on video by multiple concert goers, took place as Cardi B was in the middle of performing “Bodak Yellow.”
After apparently being splattered with a fan’s drink, Cardi B flung her microphone in the direction of the fan. Security personnel at the concert escorted someone out of the crowd.
Footage of the concert continued to pop up on social media throughout the weekend, including clips taken earlier in the concert showing Cardi B beckoning audience members to “throw some water here, b—-, ’cus I’m hot.”
“B—-, I’m dying,” Cardi B said before the incident as she fanned herself. Wearing a bright orange jumpsuit and a sheer orange wrap, she then strolled across the stage, her arms in the air, as fans splashed her with water from their cups. “That s— feels good!” Temperatures in Las Vegas that day peaked at 112 degrees.
On Tik-Tok, one person posted a clip on Sunday claiming to have been hit by Cardi B’s microphone.
“When I’m the one who gets smoked by the microphone but didn’t throw the drink,” the user wrote in the video titles. “I’m bruised and sore” they added in the caption. By midafternoon on Monday, the clip had garnered more than 7 million views. It’s not clear whether the TikTok user is the same one who filed a police report over the weekend. They did not respond to a request for comment by press time.
The exchange between Cardi B and her fans is the latest of a string of high-profile incidents where fans have thrown objects at musicians during a performance.
Cardi B did not seem particularly repentant about the incident. After the fan was escorted out, she resumed the show: twerking, laughing and shouting out her lyrics — sans mic.
Cardi B isn’t the only star guilty of red-carpet courtroom style
When Cardi B arrived at Queens Supreme Court last month to face two felony assault charges, the artist was decked out in designer duds: a two-toned designer suit from Barneys, Stuart Weitzman stilettos and a rare pink Hermès Birkin bag.
The 26-year-old “Bodak Yellow” rapper — who pleaded not guilty to charges of hurling a hookah and Champagne bottles at two bartenders in a Flushing strip club last August — waved at photographers and adjusted her cleavage as she strutted into the courtroom.
“Cardi treats her trips to the courthouse like a runway show,” says Joseph Tacopina, the celebrity criminal defense attorney representing the alleged victims, sisters Jade and Baddie Gi, whose real names are Sarah and Rachel Wattley.
On Oct. 1, Cardi showed up to the 109th precinct in a blond, Marilyn Monroe-esque wig, a slitted khaki pencil skirt and sheer white blouse. That’s when the rapper was formally charged for allegedly starting the brawl over claims that the sisters had sex with Cardi’s husband, Offset, and siccing members of her crew on the women.
The look might have been over-the-top, but it was thought out down to her fingertips, says the rapper’s manicurist, Jenny Bui.
“She just wanted black gel with diamonds around the perimeters,” Bui tells The Post, calling the choice “more simple than usual.” She also filed the star’s talons down to a tasteful 1-inch length.
Cardi’s other courthouse style moments have been equally striking: The navy and lavender suit she wore on June 25 — her fifth fashionable court appearance since she was charged — was made by upscale Danish designer, Brøgger. It was then specially tailored with the rapper’s risqué style in mind.
“Even when it comes to something in such a traditionally conservative setting, she still is who she is,” the rapper’s tailor and owner of Olá Alterations, Ongell Fereria, tells The Post, adding that she made the jacket “more form-flattering.”
But when it came to the pants, they kept it old-fashioned.
“Usually she does a more fitted pant, but for this we all decided for it to stay straight, because it still sticks to a proper suiting for a very proper engagement,” says Fereria, who, after being summoned by Cardi’s stylist, Kollin Carter, spent about three hours on the alterations.
The Brøgger suit is exclusively for sale at Barneys New York, but the luxury retailer had no idea that Cardi planned to don it in court. “We didn’t have anything to do with the styling, but we loved it,” says Barneys spokeswoman Brigitte Timmins.
The store posted a photo on Instagram of the Bronx-born rapper entering the courthouse with the caption, “Can you be sued for looking this good? We’ll let you be the judge of that.”
