A little over a week ago, she was accepting her trophy at BET’S Hip Hop Awards, Lil’ Kim then proceeded to thank her fans. Nothing out of the ordinary, right? Not according to some.
Well, the rap legend called her fan base the “Beehive,” [as she’s always done] which is [almost] what Beyoncé’s fans the “BEYhive” are called so you can imagine how over passionate some of her younger stans reacted when they heard this. A lot of Beyoncé fans proceeded to slam the female rapper, calling Kim a copycat and much more, dramatic right?
While Kim has called her supporters the ‘BeeHive,’ for years prior to Bey’s rise, Beyoncé’s fandom is a play on her name so it’s spelled the ‘BeyHive!’ Regardless, the latter still did not care since they think it’s way too close, especially the pronunciation. In other words, they were furious about that despite the fact that Lil’ Kim’s fans call her ‘Queen Bee.‘ Imagine waking up in the morning and this being at the top of your list of concerns.
Regardless of how petty, the subject came up during Kim’s recent interview with Ebro at Beats 1. When asked if she and Bey had ever discussed the subject, Kim quickly answered:
“That was my whole thing, the Beehive and my fans adapted the name. It’s so funny because even back then my fans would run up and be like “I’m Beehive! I’m apart of the Beehive!” and so they would be following me and would all come to my concerts. Now you fast forward, to years later and we’re in the social world and now fans on the internet are the Beehive…and I feel like Beyoncé has every right to call herself the Queen Bey as well. She’s… BEYONCE.”
While Kim was extremely cool about the subject she also addressed some of Beyoncé’s not so nice fans that tend to take things a bit too far:
“I don’t like how some of the fans are disrespectful. Some of the fans are so respectful, they’re like “Y’all both the queen bee’s,” cuz she even did, she called me the original queen bee and that was love.” Take a look at the clip below. Is this really that deep? Can’t they both be queen’s?
