Erykah Badu has called out Beyoncé via a cryptic Instagram story claiming she “copied her look” and even went as far as to ask the singer’s husband for help.
Erykah has cryptically called out Beyoncé (Image: Getty)
Erykah Badu has a bone to pick with Beyoncé.
The 53-year-old singer has accused Beyoncé of copying her eccentric, bohemian style look for the second time in a year – but this time with braids.
On Wednesday, the 42-year-old R&B diva unveiled the limited-edition vinyl cover for her eighth studio album Act II: Cowboy Carter – which will drop on March 29.
Shortly after the new cover was revealed Enryah, a neo-soul songstress reposted it to her Instagram Story, along with the cryptic caption: “Hmmm.”
Erykah frequently rocked the beaded bang braids between December 2023 and February of this year, including on the January cover of D Magazine.
Beyoncé’s new album cover was shared by Erykah with a cryptic caption (Image: Instagram/erykahbadu/beyonce)
She has been sporting the unique plaited hairstyle as far back as 2010.
It only took two hours for the four-time Grammy winner to be so inundated by messages from Beyoncé’s 425M die-hard fan base that she desperately reached out to her husband Jay-Z.
“You gone let this woman and these bees do this to me?” Erykah penned along with a video of a man crying.
And while Beyonce and her husband kept their lips tight, her publicist Yvette Noel-Schure posted a montage of her rocking braided hairstyles throughout the years with the caption: “She slays. She slays. Now. Then. Always. act ii COWBOY CARTER 3.29 #criticswithoutcredentials.”
Erykah rocking the distinctive braided look (Image: Instagram/erykahbadu)
This accusation comes on the heels of another made by the Next Lifetime singer.
In July 2023, Eryka reposted a picture of the former Destiny Child star wearing a custom Ruslan Baginskiy silver boater hat during her 56-date Renaissance World Tour with the same enigmatic caption: “Hmm.”
The next story showed a picture of herself performing in her “favorite chrome mirror hat” with a more telling caption that read: “I guess I’m everybody’s stylist.”
