Dakota Fanning Rapped Lil Wayne's "Watch My Shoes" and Got the Stamp of Approval From the Man Himself

Dakota Fanning is having a moment, and it started with a song she used to rap in the back of her best friend’s car in high school. Earlier this month she performed Lil Wayne’s verse from“Watch My Shoes”on Track Star, and the clip took off, racking up more than 10 million views on Instagram.

Then came the twist nobody saw coming. While walking the red carpet at the Emmy Awards on September 14, Fanning told E! News that Lil Wayne reached out to her directly on Instagram to tell her he loved the performance. She said she got the stamp of approval from“Lil Tunechi”and admitted she was pinching herself over the whole thing. The song comes from Wayne’s 2009 mixtape“No Ceilings,”which makes the moment a genuine throwback for anyone who grew up on that era of hip-hop.

What makes this story land is how familiar it feels. Most of us have a song we sang at the top of our lungs with friends, never imagining the artist would ever hear it. Fanning got to live out that daydream in front of the whole world, and there’s no drama attached, just a good old-fashioned dream coming true. So tell us, what song would you perform if you wanted to impress your hero?