If you want to find out about the drama, you’re going to have to listen to her music.
Beyoncé: elevator brawls are an occupational hazard in $1 billion households
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Beyoncé's whole career has been a master class in exercising control over her career and the conversations about it. And on Saturday, she exhibited the latest lesson with the release of a remix to her song "Flawless."
Wrapped in the verses of the song, she addresses, but doesn’t delve too deep, into the much-talked-about elevator fight between her sister Solange and her husband, Jay-Z, during a Met Ball after-party last May.
She explains that elevator brawls are normal behavior when people (and Solange too) worth $1 billion ride in an elevator together. Given that many of us don’t have a net worth of $1 billion, she’s hoping you’ll take her word for it.
She sings:
We escalatin’, up in this bitch like elevators
Of course sometimes shit goes down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator
Here’s the full track:
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