Maya Rudolph's Shouted Out Beyoncé’s Cowboy Carter Album During 2024 TIME100 Gala Toast

For the first toast of the night, Rudolph, who’s currently starring in Apple TV’s original series Loot, shouted out Beyoncé’s new album, Cowboy Carter. For Rudolph, the album was outstanding, not just because it came from Beyoncé, who she considers “one of the greatest living performers of our time,” but because the album boldly challenged conventions when it comes to race, genre, and categorization.
“People will try to categorize you and tell you who you think you are, which is something that I know very well,” she said. “But when you know who you are, you are free.”
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[@japaroldo]

And let’s be honest? Beyoncé released 4 GOAT albums. She has self-titled, Lemonade, RENAISSANCE and COWBOY CARTER. Can you imagine having 4 masterpieces in your catalog? 4 in a row?! More than 27 years in the game and still raising the bar, with powerful and matured vocals. She creates ART. Real, complex and political art. The kind that disturbs and starts a cultural movement. She is necessary!

[@MsRoxie718]

And Black in King!!

[@tomekikessler3747]

This gave me chills. Literally. Best comment 💯

[@zachbryanchicago]

these 4 albums do not just sound GREAT, but each is an entire cultural movement.

[@scottnobles7646]

That is not country music

[@roseamberzine5846]

Good Trouble❤️

[@user-sc9rz1kz7d]

This is a beautiful speech/tribute to Beyoncé! Yes Maya 👏🏾👏🏾

[@saravieira90]

Agree! And the delivery was phenomenal, it made me watch her twice.

[@zachbryanchicago]

Beyonce constantly redefining and shifting culture with just her music and performances is simply amazing.

[@lopesANDERSONsilva]

Her word choices are just flawless!!!

[@GailMRoper]

I was thinking the same thing.

[@JustXavier]

Damn! Maya hit on SO MANY truths in her message!

[@Smackwater587]

Maya & Beyonce are two treasures ❤❤

[@cathymathis4306]

It’s about time someone give Beyoncé her praise. She is one of the best performers out there and for some reason, people like to try to bring her down. I’m not understanding that, she’s the total package on talent and she should be treated like the talented queen she is. I love her

[@ajordan1847]

"They keep moving the target." ❤ Facts.

[@falsettogod5853]

That was beautiful. I’m sobbing. Beyoncé is from my hometown. We even went to the same HS (years apart); so to witness the last 27 years has been surreal. Feels like a family member took over the world lmao

[@KCNwokoye]

Wow what a terrific honour to recognise excellence in a truly excellent artist. Thank you Maya ❤️ Keep on shining Beyonce 🌹

[@tyronbarnett8485]

THIS IS A ICONIC MOMENT, THANK YOU MAYA‼️

[@kibrownie]

I was definitely crying like Da'vine!!

[@studiophuwa]

NOW THIS IS THE TIME TO FACE THE WIND! ✊🏿🏇 #COWBOYCARTER

[@HenriettaHudson-we4wv]

Maya, you are class and beauty personified!!!! THANK YOU!!!!

[@marymixon2306]

Elegantly Delivered Maya Rudolph!!!! CONGRATULATIONS Maya and Beyoncé for The Time 100 Presentation and Acceptance Speech!!!! CONGRATULATIONS Beyoncé!!!!

[@jae6506]

I LOVE THIS!! Black Women supporting Black Women will always make me happy🙌🏽 Everything Maya said is so on point. We are listening to and watching musical genius in real time with Beyoncé and with Cowboy Carter. So beautiful to see how her art touches so many the way it does to me. May God continue to Bless Beyoncé and Maya🙏🏽✨

[@leonardodanielaguayo]

Beyonce doesn't care about being the most popular artist, but about fighting to break the stereotypes and paradigms that have impacted a deal unequal and unfair towards social minorities, women and the black culture, which those actions, together with her music make me and many people happy. Amazing toast. Cheers.

[@user-blb306]

Wow ❤ amazing Maya. Couldn’t agree more. Beyoncé and cowboy Carter album are brilliant.

[@theandroids]

Yup. Country has gone back to its black roots with Beyoncé and all these other artists.

[@robertadrian2634]

Cowboy Carter is a timeless classic. One of the best albums I have heard this year.

[@wickliffewick9025]

Her mother was too Minnie Rippleton was amazing

[@mikemark8431]

amazing speech! I love you deep Beyonce for all your sacrifice, empathy, complexity and intelligence!

[@keithbell9348]

FACT: All that vitriol, hatred, racism and yes even mysogeny helped to boost the enormous popularity of Cowboy Carter up and beyond the musical stratosphere. All it did was direct more attention to it due to all the controversy. And when you have that much global attention peering into it trying to figure out what all the noise was about, ears are coming with it. The more ears that come the more listeners will like what they hear. Here's a shout out- to all those who allowed themselves to be intimidated and scared of Beyonce, who could have just as easily ignored it and moved on with their lives, But instead, couldn't help but did their part to whine and cry like little children so as to help make her latest project the enormous success that it is.

[@chrismenny400]

When you know who you are, you are free!!!!

[@JeremyMYG]

Maya Rudolph is pure class. I love and adore Maya.

[@bperez8656]

Give her her flowers while she’s alive. ❤

[@diemmarley1217]

Cowboy Carter is exceptional. I cried listening to Protector, made mom listen too and she cried harder lol😂

[@RatchetRalph]

What a beautiful tribute Maya! Thank you from the Beyhive! 🐝 🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝🐝

[@gabriellsilvalima8610]

she described beyoncé’s art, we don’t care about numbers but the legacy she’s created

[@journaldescryptos3799]

Et vous avez parfaitement raison ! Beyoncé est incroyable !

[@Luthiencia]

Maya why do you have me tearing up in my dorm room at exactly 10:10pm?

[@harriz2537]

Cowboy Carter is AMAZING BEYONCÉ IS THE QUEEN

[@NancyGlenn-dl6ut]

I love Beyoncé and she the best

[@zeldaswallace7093]

Wow Maya, your PRAISE of Beyonce and Cowboy Carter, the AMAZINGLY awesome Renascence Tour shout out resonated with me. I was NOT a Beyonce fan, my daughters are. After listening to Renaissance album and seeing her show, I cried. She is so talented and creative, complex and innovative, beautiful and gifted!! Her excellence REIGNS in the music industry and they need to RECOGNIZE!! Stop celebrating mediocrity and…GIVE. BEYONCE. HER. FLOWERS🌺

[@michaelmorrison7662]

Facts!!! Give the queen b her flowers

[@branplore]

That was beautiful Maya

[@shaun8079]

Beautifully said!

[@jeremiepierce286]

This was absolutely beautiful ❤️🙏🏿

[@classyboy04]

Thank you Mya!!!🩷

[@zairetahj3220]

You gotta love Maya

[@deborahagnew7780]

Love they keep moving the “GOAL” post

[@futureDrNLB]

Wonderful Stated Maya Rudolph

[@robbiebobby1750]

The American Requiem lyric at the end 😊

[@Minnie_Robbie]

I love love love Cowboy Carter !

[@Listening4n0w]

A genre of music OUR ancestors ✊🏾created.

[@Lou-bg1xc]

This was really beautiful Maya is so genuine.

[@robinvolpi]

What an exquisite tribute to Cowboy Carter and Mrs Beyonce Knowles-Carter. A Very Well Deserved One. This album is meant to serve as a musical education of the African Americans historic place w/in Country music, which would sound like Irish Folk (great in It's own right, mind you) if it weren't for the Blues & Gospel of the enslaved Africans. This includes the BANJO, which was created by enslaved Africans in the Caribbean then, later brought to The States. Yes, the banjo wasn't created by the Appalachians but by Africans. I could also go into the Black artists that many of the earlier big name white country artists learned from then portrayed as their style.... as it was with Elvis and Black artists like Roy Hamilton, Big Mama Thornton, Chuck Berry and Sister Rosetta Tharpe - The Godmother of Rock & Roll), but it would take awhile. ;) Beyonce adds a bit of those artists work into this album as well. Her last few projects have been a meld of grand musical production, a mosaic of Black History and how the two interconnect. It appears that Beyonce is in a period of the Reclamation and Rejoicing of African American Culture, trying to correct the record due to the erasure and gate keeping whilst also trying to push The Culture forward in Unity, Knowledge and Beautiful Experiences and Conversations. 😎 It's what she's become known for. The Superficial and surface level won't fully appreciate this album over the more curious and expansive minded.

[@bperez8656]

I don’t even call it country It’s a history of AMERICANA music. Black ppl Aren’t African Americans Like Chinese ppl are Chinese Americans Black people are AMERICANS ❤

[@jae6506]

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽

[@robinvolpi]

@@bperez8656 I usually use that term as well.... Americana/Folk

[@robinvolpi]

@@bperez8656 Also... we are Black Americans. I've got this. ;)

[@dirkberkers]

Icons see icons.

[@sadeandjaymonger2226]

Yassssz 👏🏾 I love me some Bey💛🐝

[@michaelmonaghan3343]

This was needed. In these words.

[@andrex532]

Cet album est Magnifique !!!! Les mélodies la structure l'histoire et le concept. Tout y est harmonieux !!!! C'est didactique à tous les niveaux 🥰😍🤩🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳

[@babytee13nv34]

Amen, She said that very well 👏🏿

[@joannehartley122]

So True, so very true....excellent words chosen for this speech...Maya said it all and more...Thank you!

[@johnnyleopard2668]

This was so beautiful

[@missnestle4u]

Thank you Maya for showing Beyonce love!!! I love both of you!!! Both of you are extremely talented.

[@braydentheslayer]

PERFECT TOAST

[@michaelmedcalf2877]

BRAVA, MAYA!!! You stay winning ma’am!

[@teamjoffery]

This is basically what I keep saying about it, too. Such an incredible artist.

[@user-un8xv3sc1r]

That’s right 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽❤❤❤

[@tamara99one]

Such a beautiful speech!!!

[@parisannan]

Beautiful! Love her. It’s not easy dealing with certain kinds of people, while doing what you love to do. Get it Bey! 💕💕💕

[@apdronite6202]

Maya is a treasure

[@fisayoagunbiade]

Thank you!❤

[@Motomamiiiiiiiiiiiiiii]

Amen keep standing up girls

[@foodiesasian9613]

Maya words are very powerful... She knows beyonce more then anyone....

[@StevieGsGirl]

Beautifully said

[@mvbpda]

This is beyond beautiful

[@shawntok_]

BEYONCÉ EXACTLY

[@jacewoods411]

Preach‼

[@jonathancineus6424]

😳 After making fun of her for so many times, Maya is giving Beyoncé her flowers as an apology while Beyoncé’s not even in the room.

[@user-mc5ts2yg9m]

Beautiful.. bravo 💫

[@akwaabab8504]

Right on Maya!!!!!! Thank you for elevating Queen B!

[@lizzholman1790]

Cheers to that.

[@kyohirwevictoria3761]

Beyonce the Queen you are.

[@Tippy150]

Well said ❣️ 🥂

[@jordanyeager9220]

If the next Beyonce album is rock, I will definitely be amazed if she actually rocks out on a guitar ❤

[@bperez8656]

You should go on KZbin and watch don’t hurt yourself live from Coachella ❤❤❤ Her rock song

[@RichardKhalil]

So sweet and beautiful

[@cestmoise1303]

BRAVO❕

[@ibcrazysoufboi]

Amazing!!!

[@redzoom7857]

I love this.

[@youngtoday7651]

Has Beyonce met Maya, I need it to happen please

[@Chiffron66]

She already Met Beyonce. In the backstage of Renaissance tour

[@youngtoday7651]

@@Chiffron66 perfect

[@SteadyNUnremitting]

Well said Maya

[@chie7197]

“When you know who you are, you are free”

[@luckyrathore192]

Exactly 💯

[@roy667]

❤❤❤

[@victorlawson8905]

Awesome

[@roseamberzine5846]

Beautiful❤

[@dashawndavis838]

❤

[@ayozab8540]

Maya we fucking love you ❤❤❤

[@hannahbarker56]

Looka dare looka dare!!! ❤❤❤

[@LudovicJasaron]

Yesssssss girl !

[@maunarose]

Maya ❤🥹😭🥰

[@karabomoteane2679]

Tissue please! 🥹😭

[@emilioruiz4029]

👸🏽👸🏽

[@chuckwoodruff4187]

whoops there it is

[@wadelove422]

In that order y'all better talked highly about Beyonce she is the goat and don't nobody forget it in these comments...✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿✊🏿🙏🏿🤎

[@damiankeyes8715]

I wish she did a speech honoring the courage and fortitude of the women in the room. You giving a speech about Beyoncé did not move me in any way.

[@bperez8656]

It made me and as you can see multiple in the people cry Just because you can’t connect to a story about racism and perseverance doesn’t mean it doesn’t move the rest of us

[@melissawaid3394]

1:05

[@vienicestyles]

Slow clapping 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽 👏🏽

[@jonathanmuldrow8458]

How does her wyett Husband feel about Cowboy Carter? I bet the same as most wyett people

[@ferdinandnahar6940]

I mean🙌🙌🙌🙌✔️✔️✔️🥹🥹♥️♥️♥️