--- title: Beyonce Lemonade Graduation Photo Goes Viral description: Viral teen student recreates Beyonce's Lemonade on his graduation cap. canonical: https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/ author: Ashley Hoffman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-06-23T13:31:32.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:44:48.679Z og:title: A High School Student Recreated Beyonce's Lemonade for His Graduation og:description: Bow down. og:url: https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c965106c8d10a26/6988aeca2dce01c7899eb74c/lemonade.jpeg?branch=production&width=972&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 972 og:image:height: 547 og:image:alt: lemonade og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: A High School Student Recreated Beyonce's Lemonade for His Graduation twitter:description: Bow down. twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c965106c8d10a26/6988aeca2dce01c7899eb74c/lemonade.jpeg?branch=production&width=972&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Bow Down to the High School Student Who Recreated Beyoncé's Lemonade Cover for His Graduation > Sponsored content. 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Every edition is assembled by TIME editors rather than generated automatically. by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jun 23, 2017 1:31 PM UTC  by [Ashley Hoffman](https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/) ## Ashley Hoffman Jun 23, 2017 1:31 PM UTC There was once a time when “Becky’s” walked tall in the streets, but that was before Beyoncé’s [bona fide cultural phenomenon Lemonade](http://time.com/4631309/beyonce-lemonade-impact/) emerged in 2016 as the survival tale to save us all — and inspire [plenty of tributes from fans](http://time.com/4721334/beyonce-dance-video/). Maurice Dane Scott is one of the latest. The 18-year-old Saunders Trades Technical High School grad recreated the look of the Lemonade album cover in a photo, with a special graduation touch. In the picture, which he posted to Twitter this week, he’s wearing fur and kneeling down by a car just like on the album cover. He also pasted the snapshot onto his mortarboard. But he decided to put his own milestone-themed spin on the image by including “GRADUATE” in the style of the album’s signature font. “Beyoncé has been a huge inspiration in my life. To me, Lemonade means diversity,” he told TIME of the album’s blend of genres. “That’s the kind of flexible and cultured person I want to be. I also love the poetry, the visuals, and the political statements. ” See his tweet below containing the photos, which had 4,700 likes as of Friday morning. > [](https://twitter.com/IamDayneScott/status/877649614316371968) The Vaughn College of Aeronautics and Technology-bound scholar really puts the super in super-fan. Previously, he constructed a museum model that referenced Ivy Park and played her hit song “Halo.” > [](https://twitter.com/IamDayneScott/status/860239092096925696) He also made golf course inspired by her 2013 Super Bowl stage. > [](https://twitter.com/IamDayneScott/status/730548024691281920) ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/"},"headline":"Bow Down to the High School Student Who Recreated Beyoncé's Lemonade Cover for His Graduation","datePublished":"2017-06-23T13:31:32.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:44:48.679Z","description":"Viral teen student recreates Beyonce's Lemonade on his graduation cap.","url":"https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/","keywords":["Newsfeed","celebrities","Music","viral","Beyonce","Lemonade","onetime"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c965106c8d10a26/6988aeca2dce01c7899eb74c/lemonade.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Ashley Hoffman","jobTitle":null,"url":"https://time.com/author/ashley-hoffman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt1c965106c8d10a26/6988aeca2dce01c7899eb74c/lemonade.jpeg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"lemonade","caption":"","creditText":"","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4829924/teen-recreates-beyonce-lemonade/","name":"Bow Down to the High School Student Who Recreated Beyoncé's Lemonade Cover for His Graduation"}}]}] ```