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| Who is Solange Knowles and why is she apparently beating up Jay Z? | Who is Solange Knowles and why is she apparently beating up Jay Z? |
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| Name: Solange Knowles. | Name: Solange Knowles. |
| Age: 27. | Age: 27. |
| Appearance: Young, beautiful, well dressed. | Appearance: Young, beautiful, well dressed. |
| Nice things to be. And that surname seems to ring a bell. Yes indeed. She is the little sister of international pop ostrich Beyoncé Knowles, and thus also the sister-in-law of middle-aged rap tycoon Jay Z. | Nice things to be. And that surname seems to ring a bell. Yes indeed. She is the little sister of international pop ostrich Beyoncé Knowles, and thus also the sister-in-law of middle-aged rap tycoon Jay Z. |
| Right. And what does Solange do? Or is she just a professional relative? Not at all. She's a singer in her own right and, it now turns out, a tightly wound coil of rage. | Right. And what does Solange do? Or is she just a professional relative? Not at all. She's a singer in her own right and, it now turns out, a tightly wound coil of rage. |
| Well, it must be kind of annoying when your big sister is already the most successful person in the world at exactly what you want to do. Yes, although most recently it was Jay Z she was annoyed with. As the gossip site TMZ so delightfully showed the world, the three of them were in a lift together in a hotel last week, along with a very large man who was probably a bodyguard. | Well, it must be kind of annoying when your big sister is already the most successful person in the world at exactly what you want to do. Yes, although most recently it was Jay Z she was annoyed with. As the gossip site TMZ so delightfully showed the world, the three of them were in a lift together in a hotel last week, along with a very large man who was probably a bodyguard. |
| Uh-huh. Pretty much as soon as they got in, Solange started screaming at Jay Z, attacked him with a hail of punches and kicks, and whacked him with a diamante clutch bag. | Uh-huh. Pretty much as soon as they got in, Solange started screaming at Jay Z, attacked him with a hail of punches and kicks, and whacked him with a diamante clutch bag. |
| What was she so angry about? Sadly, we don't know. All we have is silent video footage apparently from a security camera at the Standard Hotel in New York. What was behind the assault is currently obsessing the internet. | |
| Maybe it's just an attack of artistic differences? Could be. Solange danced with her big sister's band Destiny's Child when she was a teenager, but went solo long ago and became, according to music bloggers, a much more credible musician than Beyoncé or Jay Z. | Maybe it's just an attack of artistic differences? Could be. Solange danced with her big sister's band Destiny's Child when she was a teenager, but went solo long ago and became, according to music bloggers, a much more credible musician than Beyoncé or Jay Z. |
| Ooh, I bet that feels good. Yes. And the fashion world loves her. Plus she has an eye for a "hip" collaborator and has worked with artists Kendrick Lamar and Dev Hynes, with whom she made her 2012 single Losing You. It proved to be prophetic. | |
| How so? She publicly fell out with Hynes soon afterwards. | How so? She publicly fell out with Hynes soon afterwards. |
| Ah. And would I like her music? Judge for yourself. She has a new album coming out this year. | Ah. And would I like her music? Judge for yourself. She has a new album coming out this year. |
| Well I never. She'll need to do something big to get it noticed. Good idea. | Well I never. She'll need to do something big to get it noticed. Good idea. |
| Do say: "She's the artisanal Beyoncé." | Do say: "She's the artisanal Beyoncé." |
| Don't say: "She's the musical Tyson." | Don't say: "She's the musical Tyson." |
| • This article was amended on 13 May 2014. The original asked what Jay Z had done to warrant the alleged attack, and said Knowles got in what looks like a good clout with a clutch bag. These have been corrected. | • This article was amended on 13 May 2014. The original asked what Jay Z had done to warrant the alleged attack, and said Knowles got in what looks like a good clout with a clutch bag. These have been corrected. |