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This weekend revealed a weird, high-powered potential love quadrangle, the facts of which will never truly be available to the public. On Saturday, Beyoncé dropped earth-shattering musical happening Lemonade; fashion designer Rachel Roy dropped an Instagram post. What do these two events have to do with one another? What do these two women have to do with one another?
The short version is that Beyoncé's album implicated her husband, Jay Z, in an affair. Roy's post referenced a line in the song "Sorry" that itself referenced Jay's alleged mistress. But in order to fully understand this whole mess, start back when Jay and Roy met around 1999 at the rapper's clothing brand Rocawear, and work your way forward.
Follow along with the timeline below.