“I wouldn’t be on this stage without Tina Turner,” the “Irreplaceable” singer told her Paris crowd.
“Beat the box up, like Mike in ’97, I bite,” Jay-Z, 53, raps in the Grammy-winning song.
“I’m Ike Turner, turn up baby, no, I don’t play. Now eat the cake, Anna Mae said, ‘Eat the cake, Anna Mae,'” he continues. The lyrics reference a notorious moment in the Turners’ relationship when Tina, who went by her birth name at the time, was in a diner with Ike. Fans asked her for an autograph instead of him.Ike was displeased with the lack of interest in him, so he reportedly attacked Tina by forcing cake in her mouth, saying, “Eat the cake, Anna Mae!”
“Knowing that Tina Turner was Beyoncé’s blueprint and one of her biggest influences makes that ‘Eat the Cake Anna Mae’ line in Drunk in Love even more jarring,”
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