The Emergence of The Blueprint IV: Blue Ivy Carter

A chronological view of her inevitable rise to the world stage

Blue Ivy Carter, the oldest daughter of megastars Jay-Z and Beyonce, has been trending on Twitter AGAIN. This time the 11-year-old went viral because of her dance performance at the Paris show of her mother’s Renaissance world tour. For those who have kept up with Blue Ivy, and are a member of the Ivy League, the subsidiary of the Bey Hive, you know that Miss Blue has been dancing since the womb.

Let’s look back and see how Miss Blue has been showing us all along that she is the beautiful blend of Jay’s swag and cool, Sasha Fierce’s rhythm and power, and Beyonce’s beauty and poise.

We will start at the very beginning: conception.

She “Was Made in Paris”
As Jay told us in the song, Glory, Blue was conceived in Paris. Divinely, in the same city in which Beyonce conceived Blue, Beyonce presented her child to the world as a performer. In that moment, Beyonce’s conception conceived her spot as a top-tier, world dancer.

Jay recorded Glory and released it a few days after Blue’s birth. He included her cry at the end. Blue is credited as the lead writer, which made her the youngest on the Billboard charts.