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Your weekend plans: Canceled.
Yeezy season: Dismissed.
When you think of Jay and Bey together, you think album.
You should already know, he said at the time.
(Note that Detail is not credited onEverything Is Love.)
Of course, we know now thats not what happened.
His, a mea culpa for cheating on his wife.
(More on that below.)
In the striking image, Harper is seen picking out Stewarts hair in front of the Mona Lisa.
As in, thetheLouvre.
Bey and Jay serve withering staresin front of the Mona Lisa.
(A recreation of their lastinfamousprivate Louvre photo shoot.)
The couple filmed the video last month,post-Beychella(hence, the same hair).
Poignantly, then, the video ends by spotlighting Marie-Guilhelmine Benoists Portrait of a Negress.
And, never forget, Jay-z didonce rap, put some colored girls in the MoMA.
Naturally, Beyonce did better than that.
During their last visit in May 2018, they explained their idea of filming.
Juxtaposed with the Louvres artwork are images of black couples including the cover art evoking Deana Lawsons work.
James Fauntleroy II is a credited co-writer; Rory, of Jamaicas Stone Love, is a credited vocalist.
On it, Offset raps Beyonces Have you ever seen the crowd goin apeshit?
Ty Dollas $ign is a featured vocalist and co-writer.
(Blue also featured on her dads latest solo album because everyone in this family works overtime.)
On which Pharrell also features; all three wrote the song as well.
She also quotes the fuck you line fromHalf Baked(!).
Cool & Dre, Bey and Hov, and 808-Ray produced it.
On the song, Jay interpolates Commons The Light.
The song also samples Drake favorites Hiatus Kaiyotes Sphinx Gate and The World It Softly Lulls.
The song also interpolates Biggies Juicy and references filming in the Louvre.
It was produced by Boi-1da, Vinylz, Jahaan Sweet, !llmind, and Bey and Hov.
He raps, Shit I am the culture / I made my own wave, so now they anti-Tidal.
Bey sings, I would never let you shoot the nose of my pharaoh.
Cool & Dre and Bey and Hov produced the song.
It samples Flower Travellin Bands Broken Strings.
It also samples Eddie & Ernies You Make My Life a Sunny Day.
Hov specifically takes a jab atDrake for invoicing Kanye and G.O.O.D.
On 713, Jay also raps And my little baby Blue is like Who gon stop us, huh?
a reference to his song with Kanye fromWatch the Throne.
SpotifyBey and Hov have officially declared war on Spotify.
On Nice, she tells Spotify directly that she wont budge because she doesnt care.
(Further stirring the pot, she has sincereportedly putLemonadeon Apple Music.)
(He wasrumoredto co-headline this years halftime show with Justin Timberlake.)
Its a play on the hook from Dr. Dres Still D.R.E.
The extremely meta irony?
Jay-Z himself wrote that original hook for Dre, which is definitely one way to cut sampling costs!
Once again, Blue Ivy ends the song shouting out the twins.
This post has been updated throughout.
