Tyler Perry just broke the internet with five simple words on Instagram Live: “Beauty in Black Season 2 — Kimmie owns the whole damn table now.”

That’s right. The waitress-turned-exotic-dancer who spent Season 1 running from bullets, betrayal, and her own past is coming back as the boss. And from the explosive 30-second teaser Perry dropped at 3 a.m., it looks like Horace Bellair didn’t just hand Kimmie his heart last season, he accidentally handed her his entire empire.

Because when you sleep with the king… sometimes you wake up wearing the crown.

If you binged all 16 episodes of Season 1 like the rest of us, you remember exactly where we left Kimmie (Taylor Polidore Williams in a career-defining performance): standing on Horace Bellair’s private jet runway, blood still on her Louboutin knock-offs from shooting the man who tried to traffic her little sister, staring up at Horace — the married, morally gray billionaire who just offered her a way out.

The final shot of the finale? Horace sliding a black American Express with her name embossed on it across the table and whispering, “Welcome to the family business, baby.”

Cut to black. Cue three months of screaming into pillows.

Now, thanks to Perry’s surprise confirmation at the BET Awards after-party and a leaked call sheet that’s already being passed around Atlanta like gospel, we know exactly what’s coming, and it’s deliciously vicious.

Season 2 opens three months after the finale. Kimmie is no longer dancing at Club Eden. She’s sitting at the head of Bellair Global Enterprises, Horace’s $4.2 billion beauty conglomerate, because (spoiler that Perry basically shouted from the rooftop) Horace suffered a “convenient” stroke the night of the finale and is now in a coma only Kimmie and his private nurses know about.

Yes, you read that right. Our girl didn’t just get the bag. She got the whole vault, the codes, and the corner office with the view of downtown Atlanta.

And everyone who ever called her “just a stripper” is about to choke on those words.

First up: Mallory Bellair (Crystle Stewart reprising her ice-queen perfection), Horace’s wife and the former queen bee of Atlanta high society. Season 1 ended with Mallory discovering lipstick on Horace’s collar that definitely wasn’t hers. Season 2 begins with her walking into the boardroom for the quarterly meeting… only to find Kimmie sitting in Horace’s chair, legs crossed, wearing a custom pantsuit and a smile sharp enough to cut glass.

The teaser literally has Mallory asking, “Who the hell let the help in here?” Kimmie’s response? Sliding a marriage certificate across the table — dated the day before Horace’s “accident.” Mallory screams. The internet explodes. We all ascend.

Then there’s the rest of the sharks circling:

Royce (Bryan Tanaka), Horace’s illegitimate son and former heir apparent, who spent Season 1 trying to destroy Kimmie, now has to call her “Madam CEO” or lose his trust fund forever.
Detective Michael Harding (Richard Lawson), the cop who’s been building a case on Horace for years, suddenly finds every witness too scared to talk because Kimmie’s new money talks louder.
And Angel (Amber Reign Smith), Kimmie’s ride-or-die from the club, who’s promoted from bartender to executive assistant and delivers the line of the season: “I went from pouring shots to pouring tea, and baby, this tea is piping hot.”

But it’s not all penthouses and power moves. Perry promises the soap opera chaos we signed up for: secret pregnancies (yes, plural), a hostile takeover from a French beauty conglomerate that wants to paint Kimmie as “unqualified,” and at least one scene where Mallory tries to have Kimmie arrested at her own launch party for the new Bellair Black Orchid lipstick line.

The emotional core, though? Kimmie’s transformation from survivor to sovereign — and whether power will corrupt the girl who once cried in a Waffle House bathroom because she couldn’t afford to save her sister.

Taylor Polidore Williams has already teased that Season 2 Kimmie keeps one thing from her old life: every morning she puts on the cheap gold hoop earrings her mama gave her before she died, a reminder that “crowns get heavy, but roots keep you grounded.”

The teaser ends with Kimmie standing on the balcony of the Bellair penthouse, city lights glittering below like a kingdom she never asked for, whispering to a still-comatose Horace through a one-way hospital video feed:

“You wanted a beast in your bed, baby. You just didn’t expect her to eat the whole pride.”

Season 2 doesn’t have an official date yet, but Perry promised “sooner than y’all think” and sources say filming starts in Atlanta next month with 24 episodes — double Season 1 — split into two parts.

So get ready, because the girl who once danced for tips is about to make billionaires dance for her mercy.

And from the look in her eyes in that teaser? Mercy isn’t on the menu.

Welcome to the Kimmie Bellair era. Population: whoever she decides survives it.