Beyonce Hot New Music 2014: Elevator Fight Mentioned in 'Flawless' Remix featuring Nicki Minaj [Listen]
Beyoncé addresses the infamous elevator altercation between rapper husband Jay Z and sister Solange Knowles in a newly released remix version of "Flawless" featuring Nicki Minaj.
"We escalate, up in this b-tch like elevators / Of course sometimes sh*t go down when there's billion dollars on an elevator," the R&B diva sings in the surprise track she dropped in the early hours of Sunday morning, Aug. 3. "You can say what you want. I'm the sh*t."
The remix of the trap-influenced, bass-heavy song off Bey's self-titled fifth studio album features other pop culture references. "You wish I was your pound cake / Boy, you know I look beautiful," the Houston-bred singer mentions Drake's track "Pound Cake" featuring a guest verse from Hov off "Nothing Was the Same."
Soon after Beyoncé's fierce, self-acceptance hook -- "I woke up like this, I woke up like this / We flawless, ladies, tell 'em" -- a brief sample of horn riff from Outkast's "SpottieOttieDopalicious" off their classic 1998 record "Aquemini" follows, replacing Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's famous TEDxEuston speech "We should all be feminists."
Minaj then shows off her spitfire rapping skill, comparing her haters to the late Michael Jackson's convicted doctor Conrad Murray -- "Like MJ's doctor, they're killing me: propofol. I know they hope I fall, but tell them winning is my motherf*cking protocol."
"You want 'Monster' Nicki in Sri Lanka / I told 'em meet me at the Trump/Ivanka," the Trinidadian emcee closes out her aggressive verse.
HipHopWired previously reported that Nicki Minaj, who was originally set to drop the second single off her upcoming junior album "The Pink Print" on July 28, pushed back the release date "in order to avoid it getting lost in the sure to be excitement" of Beyoncé's new remix. The YMCMB rapper will drop "Anaconda" on Aug. 5.
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