![]() ![]() Slap away, Solange!)īut there’s also something heartbreaking at the thought of a family tiff between the Knowles sisters. Ugh, and then there was that pompous “I’m retired…just kidding! I’m not retired.” nonsense. He pleaded guilty to literally driving a knife into a human. How quickly we forget that Jay Z stabbed someone! In 1999 he pleaded guilty to stabbing a record producer outside a Manhattan nightclub. (There is nothing more insufferable, in this writer’s opinion, than the vaunting of Jay Z as some sort of celebrity god. Plus, who is not living vicariously through Solange during the 58 seconds of that video, soaking in each gratifying punch landed on Jay Z’s smug, overrated, and undeserving-of-Queen Beyoncé’s face? ![]() And sometimes, those skeletons fight each other. It’s cathartic to watch Hollywood royalty act like utter messes, proof that even those who put forth the public front of perfection have skeletons in their closet. It’s obvious why this video is a must-watch. Meanwhile, Beyoncé is gliding out of the hotel regally, with a serene smile of perfection and grace on her face, as if the two closest people to her in life did not just have a redneck brawl in the confines of a luxury hotel’s elevator while wearing multimillion-dollar designer fashion at Hollywood’s most glamorous and sophisticated event of the year. Solange could not look more pissed if she tried, and Jay is rubbing his cheek, presumably where he was just repeatedly slapped. (LOL and a fervent fist shake at the video’s first comment, “That’s the first hit she’s had in years!”-a hilarious zinger and perhaps a little bit true, but a burn we cannot endorse when “Losing You” is still a mainstay of every white wine-induced dance party I have alone in my bedroom on Sunday nights.)Īnd friends, as spectacular and horrifying as that video is, it does not hold a candle to a photo that was snapped of the trio leaving the Standard later that night. But only if you are prepared for to watch it again roughly 17 times in a row, because it is easily the most fascinating, amazing, upsetting, and confusing one-minute clip you will watch on this spring Monday. ![]() The video is one minute long, and you must watch it. Her part in the altercation is riveting: at one point, she delicately moves her dress train out of the way. You’ll remember, too, that Beyoncé is in the elevator throughout this whole affair. A bodyguard quickly presses the emergency stop button, perhaps wanting the family skirmish to remain private but forgetting to shoot out the surveillance camera Mission: Impossible-style so that skeevy hotel security guards wouldn’t sell it to TMZ. on Jay.įirst, she gets in his face, showing off the fiercest finger waving and neck snapping we’ve seen since Beyoncé filmed the music video for “Single Ladies.” Then Solange lets loose, smacking, hitting, slapping, and punching Jay like a drunk Real Housewife whose arch frenemy just told her that the cocktail napkins at the brunch she threw looked tacky. ![]() It shows Jay, Beyoncé, and Solange all entering the elevator together-dressed to the nines, mind you-and then Solange going H.A.M. The surveillance video was taken at New York’s Standard Hotel during one of the Gala’s after-parties. TMZ surfaced a video Monday of the hip-hop mogul being attacked in an elevator at this month’s Met Gala by Solange Knowles, younger sister to his wife, Beyoncé. ![]()
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