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Beyonce Addresses Family Drama in ‘Flawless’ Remix Featuring Nicki Minaj

Beyonce performed during the “On the Run’’ tour at Investors Group Field on Sunday, July 27 in Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. (Photo by Robin Harper/Invision for Parkwood Entertainment/AP Images)

By Emily Wright

August 4, 2014

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After dropping a self-titled visual album out of the blue in December, we didn’t think Beyonce could surprise us with much more. We were wrong.

Late Saturday night Queen Bey posted a hard, edgy remix of “Flawless’’ featuring Nicki Minaj to her website, addressing the elevator incident and rampant divorce rumors.

(Note: This one is NSFW, so if you’re going to listen, plug in your headphones.)

In the track, the R&B songstress declares:

We escalate, up in this bitch like elevators

Of course sometimes shit goes down when there’s a billion dollars on an elevator (x2)

Goddamn, goddamn, goddamn

Mama taught me good home trainin’

My daddy taught me how to love my haters

My sister told me I should speak my mind

My man made me feel so goddamn fine

The reworked version of “Flawless,’’ Beyonce’s first collaboration with Nicki, dropped a couple of weeks after Beyonce revealed a remixed “Crazy In Love’’ featured in the “50 Shades of Grey’’ trailer.

With four tour dates left on the “On the Run’’ tour calendar, we wonder what she’s got up her sleeve next.

h/t Rolling Stone