Beyonce dropped her pathbreaking HBO visual album Lemonade in 2016, and it gave the Beyhive a lot of reasons to get apprehensive. The album had songs which made very clear references to Jay-Z’s infidelity and even dropped hints at who he had an affair with. All the songs in Lemonade were personal, but numbers like Sorry, Hold Up and Don’t Hurt Yourself were specifically about her rocky romantic equations with Jay-Z.
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In one of the songs of the album, titled I Ain’t, Beyonce makes a reference to a ‘Becky with the good hair.’ In the lyrics, Beyonce accuses Jay-Z of not spending time with her and being on the phone with a certain ‘Becky.’ Fans went into a tizzy, over who Becky could be, and eventually found some inklings.
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Speculation emerged that Becky is actually fashion designer Rachel Roy, Jay-Z worked with Rachel’s then-husband’s Damon Dash for a clothing label collaboration, and that’s how they met. Things got even stranger when Rachel herself made a reference to the ‘Good Hair’ lyric when she put up an Instagram photo of herself with the caption, “Good hair, don’t care.” Fans were now pretty sure that Rachel was indeed Becky, especially since she had divorced with her husband while the Jay-Z cheating scandal was brewing.
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