--- title: Nicki Minaj Got Emotional After Meeting Lauryn Hill at Tidal description: Nicki Minaj turned into the ultimate fan girl when she met her idol, Lauryn Hill, backstage at the Tidal charity concert. canonical: https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/ author: Cady Lang article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-10-17T18:02:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:37:42.847Z og:title: See Why Nicki Minaj Is the Ultimate Lauryn Hill Fangirl og:description: Real recognize real og:url: https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90352a3bbee1bf61/6988aa36a988cab2ba6b9c48/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fangirl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 2000 og:image:height: 1125 og:image:alt: TIDAL X: 1015 - Arrivals og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: See Why Nicki Minaj Is the Ultimate Lauryn Hill Fangirl twitter:description: Real recognize real twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90352a3bbee1bf61/6988aa36a988cab2ba6b9c48/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fangirl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Nicki Minaj Bow Down to Her Hero Lauryn Hill When She Meets Her for the First Time  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 17, 2016 6:02 PM UTC  Nicki Minaj attends TIDAL X: 1015 on October 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for TIDAL) Nicki Minaj attends TIDAL X: 1015 on October 15, 2016 in New York City. (Photo by Brad Barket/Getty Images for TIDAL)Brad Barket—Getty Images for TIDAL  by [Cady Lang](https://time.com/author/cady-lang/)  ## Cady Lang Oct 17, 2016 6:02 PM UTC [Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/4300095/nicki-minaj-time-100-video/) might be one of the hottest MCs in the game, but that doesn’t mean that she’s exempt from being a fan herself. The Queens rapper turned into the ultimate fangirl when she met [the legendary (and elusive) Lauryn Hill](http://content.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19990208,00.html) for the first time while backstage at [the Tidal charity concert](http://time.com/4533139/beyonce-rips-out-earring-concert/) in Brooklyn, NY this past weekend. In a series of Instagram posts, Minaj described meeting her hero (Nicki said she even quoted the former Fugees frontwoman in her high school yearbook) as “an outer body experience” and went on to call Ms. Hill “the QUEEN.” The admiration was apparently mutual, as Hill apparently told Minaj to keep “spittin dat fire.” See Lauryn Hill and Nicki Minaj’s meeting below. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/"},"headline":"Watch Nicki Minaj Bow Down to Her Hero Lauryn Hill When She Meets Her for the First Time","datePublished":"2016-10-17T18:02:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:37:42.847Z","description":"Real recognize real","url":"https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/","keywords":["Newsfeed","Entertainment","Music","Nicki Minaj","celebrity","tidal"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90352a3bbee1bf61/6988aa36a988cab2ba6b9c48/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fangirl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Cady Lang","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/cady-lang/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt90352a3bbee1bf61/6988aa36a988cab2ba6b9c48/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fangirl.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"TIDAL X: 1015 - Arrivals","caption":"TIDAL X: 1015 - Arrivals","creditText":"Brad Barket—Getty Images for TIDAL","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4533366/nicki-minaj-lauryn-hill-fan/","name":"Watch Nicki Minaj Bow Down to Her Hero Lauryn Hill When She Meets Her for the First Time"}}]}] ```