Beyonce is arguably one of the most influential pop stars of this generation. She is one of the best-selling recording artists, a successful entrepreneur, and one-half of one of Hollywood's most high-profile power couples.
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00:00She first paid her bills, bills, bills as a member of Destiny's Child,
00:04but she started making the real lemonade when she went solo.
00:08But while the wife of Jay-Z and mother of three has built an untouchable empire,
00:13not everyone's buzzing about the beehive. Here are the stars who have openly trashed Beyoncé.
00:2050 Cent
00:22So he's never come out and said he hates Beyoncé, but during multiple interviews over the years,
00:27rapper 50 Cent has implied he's not the biggest fan of Queen Bey or her husband, Jay-Z.
00:33Speaking to People in 2015, 50 Cent defended the Grammys' decision to award Album of the
00:38Year to Beck over Beyoncé, saying,
00:41"[Beck produced his record. He wrote the record. There's 11 producers on Beyoncé's album."
00:47But a year earlier, as Beyoncé and Jay-Z tried to move on from leaked security footage showing
00:52Bey's sister Solange attacking Jay-Z, 50 Cent recalled to The Breakfast Club,
00:58"...and Bey was, one time she jumped up, or she jumped off of the ledge,
01:01came running over, because she thought me and Jay had issues, and I was like…"
01:05And as 50 recalls it, Bey got up in his face.
01:09"...she jumped down, and no, she was like, this what? Like that Bonnie and Clyde for real? You
01:13try this or what, boy? I'm here. Word. She bumped down like it was me."
01:18Keri Hilson
01:19Singer Keri Hilson was accused of shading Beyoncé in the remix of her 2009 single
01:25Turnin' Me On, because Hilson's lyrics seemingly referenced the hook in Beyoncé's hit single
01:30Irreplaceable. On her track, Hilson sings,
01:34"...she can sing, but need to move it to the left."
01:37Hilson has adamantly denied the alleged shade, but when Juicy magazine asked her to hold their
01:42latest issue at the 2011 Soul Train Awards, Hilson seemed game until she saw Bey and Jay
01:49on the cover. Years later, Hilson said she was still being tormented by the
01:53beehive over the alleged diss. According to HuffPost, she tweeted,
01:58"...is everything I tweet gonna be intentionally misinterpreted as a statement about someone or
02:03drama I know nothing about? You have no idea what your hateful words could do to someone's spirit.
02:10Years of verbal abuse from strangers all day long. Enough is enough."
02:14"...I love the verse. Yes, I heard specific names being brought up. No,
02:18it's not about that. No, you know, that was not where the energy was."
02:23Keisha Cole
02:25One person who won't be bowing down to Queen Bey anytime soon, Keisha Cole. The R&B singer took to
02:31Twitter to share her two cents after Beyoncé released snippets of the song,
02:36Bow Down, I Been On, which later became Flawless Online. The track sells Bey in full
02:43Sasha Fierce mode, an image Cole allegedly wasn't buying. She tweeted,
02:48"...can't stand when people all self-righteous when it's convenient. It makes them look good."
02:54And she followed that up with a tweet calling Bey out on her supposed hypocrisy.
02:58First, women need to stick together. Now, bitches better bow.
03:03She explained things on The Breakfast Club, saying,
03:06"...I met, like, I, you know, seen Beyoncé a few times. She's always a very sweet girl.
03:11To me, that just wasn't her, you know what I mean? Her thing."
03:14Azealia Banks
03:16Beyoncé was the target of one of many of Azealia Banks' Twitter rants,
03:21before the emcee was banned from the platform completely. In May 2016, Billboard reported that
03:27Banks went after the singer's Lemonade album, as well as her marriage to Jay-Z. Banks tweeted,
03:34"...don't think for a second that Beyoncé was intelligent enough to come up with
03:38any of those ideas on her own. She's not an artist. She's a poacher.
03:43She takes food out of darker-skinned women's mouths and pretends to be inspired."
03:48But Banks may still be a little sour from her legal scuffle with Beyoncé in 2014.
03:54Bey's lawyers filed a copyright claim against Banks when the rapper released a
03:59remix of Partition without permission. Oops!
04:03Piers Morgan
04:05"...I can't believe we're actually about to do this."
04:08In April 2016, Piers Morgan dedicated an entire op-ed in the Daily Mail to dissing Mrs. Carter.
04:16He wrote,
04:17"...Jay-Z's not the only one who needs to be nervous about Beyoncé,
04:21the born-again black woman with a political mission."
04:24Apparently, Morgan didn't appreciate Beyoncé appearing alongside the mothers of Mike Brown
04:29and Trayvon Martin in her visual album Lemonade. He continued,
04:34"...I have huge personal sympathy for both women and there is no doubt that African-Americans
04:39have been treated appallingly by certain rogue elements within the country's police forces.
04:45But I felt very uneasy watching these women being used in this way to sell an album.
04:50It smacks of shameless exploitation."
04:54Sanaa Lathan
04:55In December 2017, actress Sanaa Lathan was accused of flirting with Jay-Z and biting
05:01Beyoncé in the face at a party. And we can explain. Maybe. Comedian Tiffany Haddish told GQ
05:09that an unnamed actress was getting too close to Jay-Z at a party, so Beyoncé allegedly intervened.
05:16The chomper's identity remained a mystery, but the Beehive thinks it's quite the case.
05:21Fans cross-referenced Haddish's gossip with dirt she reportedly dished during a stand-up routine.
05:28Haddish supposedly identified the biter as someone who used to date rapper French Montana and,
05:34since Lathan has been linked to Montana in the past, that coincidence was enough for a lot of
05:39folks. Page Six even ran a headline declaring,
05:43"...Sanaa Lathan confirmed as star who bit Beyoncé."
05:47You know, Hollywood is not for the faint of heart. Emotionally, you're always being
05:51picked apart."
05:52After the story went viral in March 2018, Lathan tweeted,
05:56"...y'all are funny. Under no circumstances did I bite Beyoncé,
06:00and if I did, it would've been a love bite."