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You HAVE To See Beyonce's Five-Outfit Tribute To Lil' Kim |
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About the person Beyoncé Knowles:
Art: Music
Genres: R&B, Pop, Soul, Hip Hop, Soulful Pop, Dance-Pop, Teen Pop, Contemporary, Contemporary R&b, Contemporary Pop, Swing, Hip Pop, Ballad, Rhythm And Blues, Vocal Pop |
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Notable Organizations: Instagram
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| I'd like to present you, dear readers and fellow Beyoncé stans, with a luxurious fantasy. Picture it: Bey lets her hair down — well, actually, puts it up — to adopt some peak 90's, Lil' Kim wigs and neon extra-ness. The Queen Bey dressing up as Queen Bee, if you will. A true dream, amiright?
Except you don't have to imagine that, because that is a reality that just happened. Nope, this is indeed not a drill. We already knew that Beyoncé dressed up as Lil' Kim for Halloween, of course, alongside her husband, Jay-Z, who was the Notorious B.I.G, and we got a few small sneak peeks at her look earlier this week.
But what not a single one of us was expecting was for Beyonce to casually come through on a Friday afternoon — three full days after Halloween has ended, might I add — to channel some of Lil' Kim's most iconic looks with five full-on outfits. (I really don't even want to call them costumes, because these looks are too spot on and too fly to relegate them to such a status.) I don't even know why I'm shocked, as Mrs. Carter is by now also the Queen of Surprises, but I gasped harder and let my jaw fall further with every single photo that she unveiled on her website Friday afternoon. I was in awe of not just the looks, but the fact that the biggest pop star of all time (yes, that is a statement, not an opinion) gave Lil' Kim, the biggest female hip hop star of all time some long overdue credit. And not just for her fashion risks, but for the many ways Kim inherently owned her own sexuality through both her body language and clothing, long before it was considered acceptable in mainstream pop-culture — for Black women, especially.
So let's dive into these here works of art. First, there is a photo of the costume that we'd already gotten a quick look at: Beyoncé in dark hair, Chanel suspenders, and oversized shades giving us "The Rain" realness from the 1997 music video with Missy Elliott. |
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