Mya has recreated an iconic look that she first sported back in 2000 — and it proves she looks just as good now as she did all those years ago.
The R&B singer brought back the jersey dress that she wore in the official video for “Best of Me, Part 2” featuring JAY-Z. Mya dropped a video and some accompanying photos earlier this week, and time seemed to stand still with the drop.
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“The historic outfit that took over the early 2000s and rocked on a magazine cover brought back nostalgia,” reported USA Today, which noted that the number 23 was a “legendary” number in the Tar Heel world because it was the number worn by one Michael Jordan during his college and NBA careers.
Watch Mya rewind time below:
Mya recreates "Best Of Me" North Carolina fit & looks just as good 20 years laterhttps://t.co/52WCdDsvQrpic.twitter.com/PLN3iVtO5t
— HipHopDX (@HipHopDX) June 17, 2023
Originally released in 2000, “Best of Me” was the first single from Mya’s second album, Fear of Flying. “Best of Me, Part 2,” however, is the better-known version, which features Hov. Marley Marl also has a songwriting credit for the remix due to a sample of the late Biz Markie‘s 1987 track, “Make The Music With Your Mouth, Biz” being used.
Even though Mya and JAY-Z didn’t get along during the recording of the track, the rumor mill was swirling at the time that the pair were actually having an affair.
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These rumors were fueled even further when Beyoncé — who since has married married JAY-Z and had three children with him — performed “Resentment” live at a concert in 2014. But the singer switched the lyrics of her B’day track, sparking speculation that she was referencing infidelity on the part of her husband.
The song references a six-year relationship. Performing the song in a white wedding dress, Queen Bey changed the lyrics to reportedly correspond with the amount of time the pair had been together at the time.
“I know she was attractive, but I was here first,” she sang. “Been riding with you for 12 years/ Why did I deserve to be treated this way by you?”
However, the original lyric didn’t apply to the pair’s then-four-year relationship upon its release in 2006. Using their 2002 hit “Bonnie & Clyde” as a reference point, the couple’s relationship appears to have started around that time.
That didn’t stop the rumor mill from churning — and so prevalent were the accusations against Mya, in fact, that she had to take to her Instagram account in 2014 to address them once and for all, flat-out denying that she and Hov were engaged in an illicit affair for 11 years.
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“Never did, never was, never will,” she wrote at the time. “Illegitimate, thirsty sources with no facts and that’s the ‘media’ for you-especially today. I play second to no one, pay my own bills, have my own label, own management company, rely on God only and respect myself & marriage too much for nonsense.”
