14 DAY TRIAL // For the past couples of weeks, all we’ve been hearing about Beyonce and Jay Z is how they decided to announce their divorce at the end of the On the Run Tour because, since May, when Solange attacked Jay in an elevator because she’d found out he was cheating on Beyonce, they had been putting on an act, pretending to be a happy family.
The end for the most successful couple in showbiz was nigh, countless insiders told the tabs, and all the signs were there, if you just knew where to look.
Even Beyonce’s recent postings of photos of daughter Blue Ivy, with or without Jay, were taken as a sign of trouble in paradise: this was her way to keeping the rumors in check, of doing damage control until she was ready to announce the split on her own terms.
Because nothing less would ever work for Queen Bee.
Speaking of her own terms, here’s what she has to say about all that: over the weekend, Beyonce released a remix of her song “Flawless,” featuring Nicki Minaj and including a couple of lines in which she talks about the elevator fight that started the entire rumor frenzy.
This is what Beyonce does and she does it best: just when it feels like she must say something or her fans will go crazy not knowing who and what to believe anymore, she goes and includes a reference about one of those rumors in one of her songs.
The full track is available at the link above because we can’t embed it: it contains graphic language that might offend. You will see that Beyonce doesn’t exactly address the controversy in the sense of explaining it. Instead, she just mentions it, thus making room for even more interpretations about the state of her marriage.
If there’s anyone who knows how to use the media attention for personal gain, without coming across as very annoying or “in your face,” that’s Beyonce.
“We escalate, up in this [expletive] like elevators/ Of course sometimes [expletive] goes down when there's a billion dollars on an elevator,” she raps. The first video embedded below is with this exact line, in case you’re not feeling up to playing an entire Beyonce song.
The second one is the elevator fight she’s referring. You see her standing there, as Solange goes at Jay Z time and time again, with her fists, her legs, and even her purse, barely moving a finger to stop the fight. For many, this is confirmation that Solange was somehow defending Beyonce, perhaps by confronting Jay for being a serial cheater.
Back to the “Flawless” remix, it marks the first collaboration between Beyonce and Nicki. Back in 2010, Nicki said that she’d already done most of her dream collaborations (Jay, Kanye West, Rihanna, Eminem), except for Beyonce, who was next on her list. It’s a dream come true for her.