It seemed that everyone was denying being ‘Becky with the good hair’ from Beyoncé’s track Sorry, but someone has stepped forward to own the title at last.
Karrine Steffans, wife of former Scandal actor Columbus Short and author has written an essay about being a ‘Becky’, detailing a fling with Jay Z back in 2000.
That’s right – the fling took place prior to Beyoncé and Jay Z’s romance. Everyone breathe out.
“Over 15 years ago, I had Beyonce's husband. Yes, I was one of Jay Z’s Beckys back in the year 2000 for about three minutes, which is about as long it takes me to satisfy a man in the back of a Maybach while overlooking the beaches of Malibu,” Steffans writes on XOJane.
“I was a 21-year-old California transplant who’d been tossed into my first music video after a fateful meeting with director Hype Williams. A single mother raising my son on my own, I jumped at the chance to make $2,500 a day to dance around and look pretty next to the artist - Jay Z.
“Chauffeured away from the set, down the winding road, and closer to the shoreline, Jay and I feasted on our attraction to one another - rabidly and quickly. After just a few minutes, I lifted my head from his lap, wiped my lips, and knew we’d made a mistake.
“This was pre-Yoncé, of course, but the fact is that a Becky is a Becky, and I was the Becky for many men, and they were all my salvation and my destitution. They were my reason and my rationale, my life and my death, and eventually, my fame and my infamy."
What a brave confession. Or a good way to bring your books to a wider audience. Not that we're synical.