Monica Lewinsky jokingly requested Halle Berry if she’s keen on buying and selling locations as hip-hop’s lyrical muse.
On Friday (April 25), the Oscar-winning actress responded to a viral tweet mentioning how typically she’s been referenced in rap songs.
“And I recognize every rap track reference. 🤍 what are you guys’ favourite?” Berry wrote in a quote submit.
Lewinsky made her approach into the dialog on Saturday and jokingly replied, “wanna commerce?!? 😉”
Evidently, the 51-year-0ld activist is hinting at her personal historical past of being referenced in popular culture after her broadly publicized affair with President Invoice Clinton within the ‘90s.
Lewinsky as soon as estimated that about 40 rap songs referenced the incident throughout a 2015 TED Discuss. Nevertheless, a report from the Minimize that very same yr found about 128 songs (excluding most remixes) of songs that identify dropped her.
A number of the extra notable tracks with nods to Lewinsky embrace Beyoncé’s “Partition,” Eminem’s “Rap God,” and Nicki Minaj’s “Itty Bitty Piggy.”
Then again, Berry loved extra flattering references in songs like Kanye West’s “New Exercise Plan,” J. Cole’s “Greater” and Kendrick Lamar’s “Cash Bushes.”
“I consider these references like my kids, in a approach,” Berry informed Sean Evans on the seven-minute mark of her 2019 Scorching Ones episode. “There’s no approach I may decide one. I really like all these artists. I’m at all times flattered when any one in every of them embrace me, and that they nonetheless bear in mind me, and even know who I’m. So, to select one could be like selecting my daughter over my son. I really like all of them.”