Rihanna Clears Up The So-Called “Shade” She Threw At Beyoncé’s Lemonade

It started where all good music dramas do: the Grammys. A Rihanna stan account, @rihannagang_, posted a rant after the Academy failed to nominate its queen for Album of the Year or Song of the Year.

“I think they didn’t want her tied or passing someone else *cough cough* ,” it wrote, which anyone with an internet connection will recognise as shade thrown at Bey’s seminal 2016 album ‘Lemonade‘.

Congrats and all to @badgalriri and all for her 8 Grammy nods but tbh fuck them because they snubbed her for Song of the Year and Album of the Year. Like how my nigga!? I think they didn’t want her tied or passing someone else *cough cough* ??. Cause if they wouldn’t have played her she would have been in the lead with most Grammy nods. Fuck u Grammys, ANTI did amazing things this year and y’all played her. I think y’all shook!

A photo posted by Majistii ?? (@rihannagang_) on Dec 6, 2016 at 8:34am PST

This is nothing unusual; fans are vocal as hell when their chosen one misses out.

But then Bad Girl RiRi herself went and liked the damn post. To the outside observer, this might seem like nothing, but in stan terms, it’s like someone asked if she’d be cool with launching the nuclear weapons and she just smiled and waved.

Stan turned on stan, Instagram on Instagram, and with a splutter and a hint o’ fresh lemon, the great Navy v Beyhive war of 2016 began. Spend even two seconds on @rihannagang_’s account and you’ll find shade, abuse, and approx. 100,000 bee emojis.

Sensing things were getting a *touch* outta control, RiRi returned to the scene of the crime and clarified that she had no idea what she was liking in the first place.

As captured by The Shade Room, she left this comment on the OG post:

“I never actually read your caption, I thought the pic was funny and moved right along! Til I see it pop up over and over. I’m petty af, yes. But this is just unnecessary! I wish y’all would drop this topic and see things from the bigger picture! We don’t need to be putting black women against each other! We deserve to be celebrated, and the Grammy Academy agrees!”

#RiRi responds under the picture she liked that had the #Beyhive and #Navy going crazy to clear things up. #Grammys #Beyonce #Rihanna #Anti #Lemonade

A photo posted by The Shade Room (@theshaderoom) on Dec 7, 2016 at 4:23am PST

There you have it, folks. The general is out, but the war may yet rage. 

Source: The Shade Room.
Photo: Getty / Kevin Mazur.