This is what it's like to get hugged by Beyoncé


At the MTV VMAs on Sunday night, Beyoncé performed a lengthy, show-stopping medley of songs from her hit visual album, Lemonade. But somewhere between coordinating adorable mother-daughter outfits and unabashedly laying out the raw emotions of marital infidelity, the songstress also found time to thoroughly make Chance the Rapper's day:
Amazing moment between #Beyonce and #ChanceTheRapper backstage at the #VMASA video posted by BG The King (@byrongraffiti) on Aug 29, 2016 at 4:29am PDT
As BuzzFeed notes, this wasn't the first time the Chicago-born rapper met Beyoncé. And even if it's worse than looking crazy, I have to admit: I'm pretty jealous of Chance the Rapper right now.
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Kimberly Alters is the news editor at TheWeek.com. She is a graduate of the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University.
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