Eve finds her perfect match as she returns to TV with 'Queens'

What year is this again?

There's Eve, rapping in her signature style while stalking through some wretched excess, flaunting a big house, a yacht and many scantily clad admirers in director Tim Story's video. It's as if "Now That's What I Call the '90s" has come to life.

But this is the opening scene for "Queens," a new ABC series that premiered Tuesday.

Eve plays one of four Nasty B—es, an all-female superstar rap group. Rounding out the party starters on the aforementioned yacht are Brandy ("Star"), Naturi Naughton ("Power") and Nadine Velazquez ("My Name Is Earl"). They also play the older versions of the women whose fortunes have shifted dramatically since their "one big album in the '90s."

It's an alternate history of sorts for Eve.

"I could never have thought that I would be in a show, kind of being a rapper from the same era that I was actually a rapper in," Eve says via Zoom. "But I have to say it's been fun for me, because I have been away from music for so long as myself."

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