Beyonce‘s 6th studio album, Lemonade, was previewed by an HBO special of the same name less than an hour before its release, sending the #BeyHive into one of the most frenzied social media tailspins in recent memory. At the album’s onset, Beyonce appeared to be clearly re-enacting the scarring emotional toll a cheating husband causes, and that plot developed during the “Apathy” segment of Lemonade, which previewed the song “Sorry.” Beyonce unabashedly delivers a variation of the biblically inspired “ashes to ashes, dust to dust” phrase–“ashes to ashes, dust to side-chicks”–then sings, “He only want me when I’m not there / He better call Becky with the good hair.”
After that moment transpired on millions of television and computer screens worldwide, Beyonce fans flocked to Rachel Roy‘s Instagram and left scores of unbelievably harsh comments and insults for the fashion designer and ex-wife of Damon Dash. Rachel Roy is the woman tabloid rumors have fingered as the woman Jay Z allegedly cheated on Beyonce with ever since the elevator fight heard around the world, and she didn’t help her case with the following Instagram post, uploaded just after Bey’s Lemonade went off the air.
Despite the glaring circumstances, Rachel Roy gave a statement today to People claiming that she is not “Becky with the good hair.”
I want to put the speculation and rumors to rest. My Instagram post was meant to be fun and lighthearted, it was misunderstood as something other than that. There is no validity to the idea that the song references me personally. There is no truth to the rumors.
Well, that leaves the question of the week quite open ended. Who is Becky?
