You know an awards show is going to be lit when Beyonce shuts it down before it even starts.
The Lemonade singer shocked the world when she made a surprise appearance at the BET Awards with a little help from 2016 ESSENCE Festival headliner Kendrick Lamar.
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Queen Bey and K.Dot opened the 2016 awards show with their collab, “Freedom” (and we all subsequently lost our minds). The duo stomped around in a water-soaked stage while Beyonce whipped her hair like it was nobody’s business. Added bonus? Bey used a snipped from Martin Luther King Jr.’s I Have a Dream Speech.
Did you catch the opening act? What did you think?
Catch Kendrick Lamar at the 2016 ESSENCE Festival, July 1- 3 in New Orleans.