--- title: 2016 TIME 100 Gala: Nicki Minaj Performs 'Feeling Myself' description: The rap superstar recorded the song with Beyoncé canonical: https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/ author: Rishi Iyengar article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-04-27T07:46:13.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-07-21T07:15:06.651Z article:section: Entertainment og:title: 2016 TIME 100 Gala: Nicki Minaj Performs 'Feeling Myself' og:description: The rap superstar recorded the song with Beyoncé og:url: https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaabb631b68ba4ab/698890c30b72e3862e6e9199/time-100-gala-2016-red-carpet-19.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: US-MEDIA-TIME og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: 2016 TIME 100 Gala: Nicki Minaj Performs 'Feeling Myself' twitter:description: The rap superstar recorded the song with Beyoncé twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaabb631b68ba4ab/698890c30b72e3862e6e9199/time-100-gala-2016-red-carpet-19.jpg?branch=production&width=3840&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Watch Nicki Minaj Perform _Feeling Myself_ at the 2016 TIME 100 Gala by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Apr 27, 2016 7:46 AM UTC  Nicki Minaj at the TIME 100 gala in New York on April 26, 2016. Nicki Minaj at the TIME 100 gala in New York on April 26, 2016.Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images by [Rishi Iyengar](https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/) ## Rishi Iyengar Apr 27, 2016 7:46 AM UTC [Nicki Minaj](http://time.com/4298230/nicki-minaj-2016-time-100/), one of the [2016 TIME 100](http://time.com/collection/2016-time-100/) honorees, performed many of her top hits at the [TIME 100 Gala](http://time.com/tag/time-100-gala/) in New York City on Tuesday night, including “Moment 4 Life,” “Super Bass” and “Anaconda” — the last of which she [dedicated](http://time.com/4308694/nicki-minaj-anaconda-donald-trump-joe-biden-time-100-gala/) to Vice President Joe Biden and Republican presidential front-runner Donald Trump. But the rap superstar’s most talked-about performance of the night was of a track she recorded with Beyoncé called “Feeling Myself,” which features on her third studio album _The Pinkprint_. Watch Minaj’s rendition of the song above. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/"},"headline":"Watch Nicki Minaj Perform Feeling Myself at the 2016 TIME 100 Gala","datePublished":"2016-04-27T07:46:13.000Z","dateModified":"2026-07-21T07:15:06.651Z","description":"The rap superstar recorded the song with Beyoncé","url":"https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/","keywords":["TIME 100","Joe Biden","Beyonce","Nicki Minaj","Donald Trump","performance","TIME 100","TIME 100 Gala"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaabb631b68ba4ab/698890c30b72e3862e6e9199/time-100-gala-2016-red-carpet-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Rishi Iyengar","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/rishi-iyengar/"}],"articleSection":"Entertainment","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltdaabb631b68ba4ab/698890c30b72e3862e6e9199/time-100-gala-2016-red-carpet-19.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"US-MEDIA-TIME","caption":"Nicki Minaj at the TIME 100 gala in New York on April 26, 2016.","creditText":"Timothy A. Clary—AFP/Getty Images","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":"/section/entertainment/","name":"Entertainment"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-100/","name":"TIME 100"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":3,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4309122/nicki-minaj-beyonce-feeling-myself-performance-time-100-gala/","name":"Watch Nicki Minaj Perform Feeling Myself at the 2016 TIME 100 Gala"}}]}] ```