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Entertainment November 22, 2016
Kanye West has done some pretty ill-advised things lately but his biggest mistake was surely dissing Beyoncé.
In doing so, he failed to learn the first lesson of showbusiness: Mess with the Beyhive and you get stung.
Queen Bey is protected by a digital fortress of online fans who will attack anyone who speaks out against their idol by covering their social media accounts with hateful honey, unleashing lemon and bee emojis and causing career death by a thousand stings.
That’s what happened to wild, wild West when he ripped into Beyoncé at one of his recent on stage rants, accusing her of rigging the MTV Video Music Awards this year by saying she would only perform there if she won Video of the Year over him.
Now Kanye might well have a point – it was certainly suspicious that Beyoncé already had a microphone in her hand when she walked from the audience to the stage to accept the award for “Formation.” But sometimes it’s wiser to shut up and say nothing.
Now as he sits in a hospital bed recovering from the health issues which led to him cancel his controversial Saint Pablo tour, Kanye might well be reflecting that it’s one thing to be pro-Trump – like he also said on stage – but quite another to be anti-Beyoncé.
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Checking into social media will hardly make him feel better as the Twitter hashtag #KanyeIsOverParty has been gaining steam ever since he attacked the “Lemonade” singer on stage last Saturday night in Sacramento.
Accusing her of corruption, he told his audience, “Beyoncé, I was hurt! ‘Cause I heard that you said you wouldn’t perform unless you won Video of the Year over me, and over Hotline Bling.” He then accused Beyoncé’s husband Jay Z of sending contract killers after him before abruptly ending the concert having performed only three songs.
Following more headline hitting controversies he called an end to his tour and sought medical help. Hopefully Kanye will be better soon. But there seems to be no quick fix to the vitriol unleashed on him by the Beyhive.
Anti-Kanye messages like these are rampant … one even warns that comedienne Joan Rivers died just a week after joking about Beyoncé and Jay Z’s elevator fight.
@kanyewest you are nothing, you were nothing, and you will always be nothing. the carters dont and never will like you. worthless.
— ㅤ (@Maddynx) November 20, 2016
One Queen Bey fan commented on Instagram, “It’s okay for Beyoncé to win as long as she doesn’t win over him? F*ck outta here! Why you think we call her King Beysus? She rules over any man and woman in the music industry right now.”
Just ask Joan Rivers what happens next when you talk bad about Beyoncé @kanyewest ?
— Slaymonade (@Aissablabla) November 20, 2016
Rivers passed away on Beyoncé’s birthday, a week after making a joke about The Carters’ infamous elevator fight.
@kanyewest @Golden1Center How dare u claim #TaylorSwift OR #Beyonce owe you ANYTHING. Strong independent women survive…with or without Ye
— Nancy Samra (@youknowNance) November 20, 2016
Kanye is more obsessed with Taylor Swift and Beyoncé than with his own wife #KanyeIsOverParty
— Common White Girl (@girlhoodposts) November 20, 2016
Other celebrities have made the mistake of messing with Beyonce and her digitial defenders have made sure it hasn’t ended well for any of them.
When Kid Rock told Rolling Stone he was “flabbergasted” by her level of success, saying, “Beyoncé, to me, doesn’t have a f–king ‘Purple Rain,’ but she’s the biggest thing on Earth,” the hive sent so many bee emojis to his social media accounts that he Instagrammed a can of Raid to drive them all away.
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At the height of “Lemonade” mania, Kanye West’s wife Kim Kardashian tried to steal the spotlight by posting steamy pictures of her and her husband only to put in her place by the hive, with one typical tweet reading, “Who cares? Buy Lemonade!”
Beyoncé fans use mean humor as one of their weapons. When Chris Brown’s ex, Karrueche Tran made a publicity grab with a bad taste joke about Blue Ivy’s hairstyle, posting, “I really did wake up like this because my parents never comb my hair,” one fan summed up the reaction of the hive by responding, “Blue Ivy’s hair is more relevant than Karrueche.”
Kanye West is a big talent who has risen to the top of the rap world and won many battles in his career to get there. But there’s one battle he can’t win, which seemingly no one can – and that’s a fight with Beyoncé’s fans.
So Yeezy, get better soon. And for the sake of your career, start tweeting an apology to the Beyhive.
