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Even the Rich

Wondery

Society & Culture

4.3 • 11.5K Ratings

🗓️ 18 May 2021

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Jay-Z, Beyoncé, and Solange walk into an elevator. After that? Well, you've seen the video. The black-and-white footage inspires the tabloids to fire off an endless stream of colorful rumors. And the thing is, some of those rumors might be true. The Carters' marriage is on shaky ground. So they turn to music. It brought them together in the first place. Maybe now it can save their relationship.

This episode originally aired on June 16, 2020.

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0:00.0	Wundery Plus subscribers can
0:01.7	convince the newest season of even the rich
0:03.3	before anyone else.
0:04.4	Join Wundery Plus in the Wundery App or on Apple Podcasts.
0:08.3	A quick note, this episode has some inappropriate language.
0:11.5	Also, we're going to sing. You've been warned.
0:18.6	It's May 2014 and Beyoncé Knowles Carter is mortified. A few days ago she had the longest
0:26.4	elevator ride of her life. Three and a half minutes of her sister
0:30.0	unleashing fury on Beyonce's hubby Jay-Z the whole way.
0:34.0	Beyonce values discretion, so her only consolation is that whatever went down at the
0:39.4	Standard Hotel is between her, Salange and Jay.
0:42.6	And don't forget about the stunned security guard who was with them.
0:45.8	Yeah.
0:46.5	She's got to be thinking.
0:47.8	Thank God no one else saw it.
0:49.9	Thank God no one else knows.
0:51.5	She's worked hard to maintain privacy
0:53.1	in her personal life for years.
0:55.2	I mean, she keeps every photo that has ever
0:57.5	been taken of her stored in a temperature-controlled vault.
1:00.4	So imagine her surprise when she finds out that this video slipped through the cracks.
1:05.0	Someone on her staff breaks the news to her.
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