Cardi B Makes Boldy Surprise To Orphanage with Loads of Gifts In Nigeria
American rapper Cardi B has visited a motherless home in Lekki, Lagos, with tons of gifts, bought from a Nigerian supermarket, hours before performing at Livespot X Festival on Saturday night.
The singer, who said in a live video on Saturday morning that she was enjoying Lagos, posted photographs of the visit on her Instagram page, with the caption: “Gotta thank the ladies and the gentlemen that nurtured these kids that need just a little bit of more love and protection and gear them up for a better place, destiny and future. People like YALL MATTER!
Cardi B was pictured along with Nigerian stars such as Darey Art Alade.Travel blogs
The post attracted sweet words from Nigerian celebrities such as Nollywood star, Funke-Akindele, who wrote, with love emoji: Thank you for being real and a big shout out to @livespotnation @dareydarey for inviting such a real and kind soul to our Naija.”
Cardi B is set to perform for the first time in Nigeria and Ghana
Grammy award-winning rapper and social media sensation, Cardi B is in Africa to perform for the first time on the continent in Nigeria and Ghana.
On Thursday, the star shared a post on her Instagram page of her dancing in excitement in a private jet as she set off to her first stop – Nigeria.
“1:03am drop my KK in NY on my way to Afrriiiiicaaaaaaaaaa baybeeeee!!!!!!,” she wrote in the post.
Last month she announced that she would be performing at the Livespot X Festival in Lagos, Nigeria and later Accra, Ghana.
After arriving Lagos, Nigeria’s commercial center, an excited Cardi B said she wanted to visit places in the city and taste Nigerian jollof rice.
“I want to see the real Nigeria, I don’t want to eat hotel food. I want like real Nigerian food, all that fish, all that Jollof rice,” she said on her Instagram story.
Cardi B (real name Belcalis Almanzar), broke into the music scene in 2017 with her hit single ‘Bodak Yellow.’
She will be performing at the two-day festival alongside top African artists from both countries.
Organized by Livespot 360, a digital agency based in Lagos, the festival will feature Tiwa Savage, Burna Boy, Shatta Wale, R2bees among others.
Immense popularity
Darey Art Alade, a Nigerian singer and creative director of Livespot 360 says Cardi B was picked to headline the festival because of her immense popularity.
“She is one of the biggest artists in the world… It’s really about her uniqueness, her star power. She has got great music and she is the girl next door character that everybody loves,” he told CNN.
Cardi B has won multiple awards including a Grammy Award, seven Billboard Music Awards, and four BET Awards.
Alade, who will also perform at the festival, says bringing Cardi B to Africa has been in the works since 2018.
According to him, his team has been in conversation with her for months to make her trip to the continent smooth. “Getting Cardi B to come is a lot because there are many moving parts. She is specific about everything,” he said.
The festival has organized the lighting, stage, and design of the venues in Accra and Lagos to suit the rapper’s preferences.
