Cardi B said Lady Gaga inspired her 3 years ago and freaked out after finally meeting her at the 2019 Grammys

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Lady Gaga and Cardi B finally met. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Cardi B met her idol Lady Gaga at the 2019 Grammy Awards Sunday.
Photos show Cardi freaking out as she talked to Gaga.
In 2016, Cardi tweeted that Gaga inspired her.

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Cardi B had a big night at the 2019 Grammy Awards Sunday.

The 26-year-old rapper made history as the first solo woman to win best rap album, performed her hit song “Money,” and finally met one of her idols, Lady Gaga.

Read more: Lady Gaga tried to turn ‘Shallow’ into a rock song at the Grammys, and fans had mixed reactions

Photos show an ecstatic Cardi freaking out after meeting Gaga at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. She couldn’t stop smiling as she talked to Gaga in the audience.

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Cardi B was so excited to meet Lady Gaga. Kevin Mazur/Getty Images

Back in 2016, Cardi expressed her admiration for the pop star in a tweet.

“When I was a teenager Lady Gaga changed my life,” she wrote. “She inspired me to be myself & be different.”

At that point, Cardi didn’t have her hit “Bodak Yellow” yet, but she was on “Love & Hip Hop: New York” and had released her first EP.

Two years later, in April 2018, Gaga responded to Cardi’s tweet and wrote, “Love you girl.”

That same year, Gaga responded to a video of Cardi performing Gaga’s “Bad Romance” at her high school talent show.

“I live,” she wrote on Twitter.

See a complete list of the 2019 Grammy winners here.

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Janelle Monáe’s performance at the Grammys was a tribute to vaginas and people were here for it
Pink’s kids gave her a homemade Grammy after the singer lost at the 2019 awards show
Cardi B turned up to the Grammys in a pearl-adorned dress that made her look like she was emerging from a shell
John Mayer once gave half of a broken Grammy to Alicia Keys and they just reunited the pieces on the award show

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