Beyoncé’s 2013 song “Flawless” features a prominent sample from Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie. The sampled passage comes from Adichie’s TEDx talk “We Should All Be Feminists,” delivered in 2012.
The song appeared on Beyoncé’s self-titled visual album, released in December 2013. Its structure includes an earlier track called “Bow Down” before the spoken-word section, creating a contrast between confrontational lyrics and Adichie’s definition of feminism.
Adichie’s speech argues that feminism concerns equality and challenges assumptions about what women and men should be. Beyoncé’s use of the excerpt brought those ideas to a large global pop audience and helped make the song a frequent subject of discussion about music, gender, and public activism.
“Flawless” is sometimes called simply “***Flawless,” the stylized title used for the album track. Both forms refer to the same Beyoncé song, not to a separate composition or remix.