Welcome to Black People Love Paramore, a pop culture podcast, not about the band Paramour, but a show about the common as well as the uncommon interests of black people in order to help us feel a little bit more seen.

I'm Sequoia Holmes, and today we have Ryan and Naderra.

Nadira, thank you for joining us. Can you tell us a little bit about yourself before we get started? Oh my gosh. Well, thank y'all so much for having me. You know, I love y'all. Big fan. Big fan. Love the show. Two icons. And I'm an author. So I wrote a book a few years ago, First Things First, Hip Hop Ladies Who Changed the Game

about women in Hip Hop, not just the women who are on the mic,

but also the ones off the mic, the fashion, the journalism, all of it.

So big fan of music, you see, I got all the vinyl's on the wall.

And I am a proud member of a Beehive.

I'm just like, let you know Period. So funny enough, I historically have been like, no, I'm not hive.

No, I'm not hive.

I am a fan, but like not hive because hive be doing a lot.

It's always like, no, no, my hive.

And then you, and then something like today happens where I sit and consume Beyonce for hours on end, whether it's I go down a rabbit hole of music videos or I watch lemonade in its entirety or I watch a homecoming in its entirety.

And I will cry.

I will start crying.

And then I'm like, are you okay?

Like there is not really another artist that has this level of an impact on you. Maybe like a couple, but like, there's something's something's wrong. Something something. I also like, oh, I was high when I was youngered up. Like Destiny's child, I was like down. Like I was always like little gay me was like, oh, getting my cousins and being, I'm clearly Beyonce. like so I was younger up like Destiny's Child I was like down like I was always like little gay me was like oh getting my cousins and being I'm clearly Beyonce like I was buried in I I jumped out like I feel like by the time I think was me clot trying to be in a closet I was like I'm not high like I'm not a Beyonce fan and then I don't remember what pulled me back

Actually it might have been Lemonade.

Now that I really think about it, I think it distinctly was Lemonade, because I remember being in grad school, and, like, I was waiting tables at Red Robin. I remember, like, it was like, come on. Right, I was. And I remember we, like, Lemonade. Like, she had announced that it was, like, the HBO thing thing was coming and I forgot to take off.

And when I remember literally driving home with my phone on the dashboard, logged into HBO, watching it on the road because I didn't want to miss any of it.

Like I like made them let me off early and I was like so like in.

I'm pretty sure limited is when I jumped back in because that was also also a halftime show or she surprised half time show right or was it I'm sure I remember like the timeline of things wasn't that she did she did do uh she dropped it yeah it was like it was a now remember like she performed with a cole play and Bruno Mars and then at the end like there was an ad that was like Formation World Tour, before we knew what the album was. Right, yeah. Like, we didn't know what it was.

It was, I think Formation had just dropped. We didn't get Full Lemonade yet. We just got like Formation World Tour coming and I was like in. I was so in. I'm deeply sick to my stomach that I did not take myself to the Formation World Tour. Okay. Oh, same. I'm getting too far. You guys. Obviously, we're talking about lemonade today. Okay? Obviously, we're talking about lemonade. You all already know all the housekeeping stuff, rate review, do all the things. I really just want to jump straight into it. I'm going to give a brief summary of what I think lemonade is about. usually I'll do these off the cuff

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