LAURYN HILL.
*STILL ADDING TO THIS.
I mean, do I really need to make this post? Nicki has ALWAYS shown love for Ms. Hill but I guess I will anyways.
Here are a couple of tweets from Nicki about Hill. (x), (x), (x), (x), + (x).
Nicki defended Lauryn when someone tweeted this: “I'm sticking up for the Darkskin girls...my boy said there aren't many super pretty darkskin girls...I can't name any..that's fucked up help“ Here’s her response (x)
In an interview with Hot 97 Nicki said the following: “My favorite: Foxy, Kim, Lauryn and then Remy,” she told the morning show hosts. “When Remy came out I was very excited about her. But with Foxy, Kim and Remy, they were all from New York too. No disrespect to any other female rappers, but those were the ones that I felt like I could get into that. They sounded like me when I spoke. I just thought they really made an impact.”
Lauryn Hill also supported Nicki when one of the hosts from Summer Jam were being disrespectful towards her she said the following:
“I don’t have details on exactly what transpired between the station and the artists, but I do support artists standing by their beliefs and walking with integrity,” she wrote. “We have to find a better way to commercially exploit music while giving artists their proper respect. This cannot be done while taking their contributions for granted or trying to control the scope of their growth and power through threats and fear tactics.”
The iconic hip-hop star went on to encourage industry power-brokers to do better. “We can do better than this, there is a better way, or else ’we’ (the proverbial we) find ourselves in danger of being hypocrites,” she added. (source)