Beyonce Hot New Music 2014: Singer Releases New Music Video for 'Flawless' Remix Featuring Nicki Minaj [Watch]
Beyoncé finally released the music video for the remix version of "Flawless" featuring Nicki Minaj on Monday.
The new visual was actually taken last month during the final show of the R&B diva's "On the Run" joint tour with rapper husband Jay Z at Stade de France, where she brought out the Trinidadian emcee on stage as a surprise guest performer.
The five-minute-long live concert footage opens with an excerpt from Nigerian writer Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie's famous TEDxEuston speech "We should all be feminists" flashing across the screen - "Feminist: a person who believes in the social, political, and economic equality of the sexes."
Queen Bey begins belting out her trap-influenced, bass-heavy track off her self-titled fifth studio album and busts out her moves with an army of backup dancers in front of a packed audience. Midway through her performance, she introduces the "Anaconda" rapper by her real name Onika.
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"The queen of rap, slayin' with Queen Bey / If you ain't on the team, you playin' for team D," Minaj proclaims before showing 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."
The YMCMB rapper previously spoke about what it was like collaborating with the "Drunk in Love" hitmaker on the fierce song. "[My manager] Gee [Roberson] called me when I was on my way to Vegas, and he said, 'Beyoncé wants you to remix Flawless,'" she told Hot 97. "And after I got proper medical help and started breathing again, I was like, 'What?'"
Beyoncé wanted Minaj to be creative and keep her originality telling her, "I want you to be you - I don't want you to hold back."
In an interview with Paris radio station SkyRock FM, Nicki Minaj also talked about her performance: "They were so loud and I really wasn't expecting that. I couldn't hear the music, I couldn't hear myself when I first came out. It made me feel great, it made me want to come back with my own tour, which we're doing at the top of the year. I can't wait to give fans a full show of my own."
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