![]() Archived from the original on January 29, 2018. ‡ Sales+streaming figures based on certification alone. Sanders, Susan Kelechi Watson (who plays an adult Blue Ivy), Brie Larson, Constance Wu, Niecy Nash, Rosario Dawson, Janet Mock, Mindy Kaling and Rashida Jones. Jordan, Thandiwe Newton, Trevante Rhodes, Irene Bedard, Omari Hardwick, Jessica Chastain, David Oyelowo, Emayatzy Corinealdi, America Ferrera, Aisha Hinds, Storm Reid, Henry G. The following actors appear in the video: Michael B. In the present year, young Blue Ivy watches her parents Jay-Z and Beyoncé perform in confessional booths pulpits. The video flashes back to 2018 at a church, and the song begins. The story of a family's rise to power in the video is revealed to have begun in 2050 with a constitutional convention of the Founding Mothers led by a grown-up Blue Ivy. After that, the video shifts back in time through different eras. It begins in the year 2444, when a fight over sovereignty results in a murder. The official music video was released on December 29, 2017. Shortly after the song was released, American rapper Young Thug thanked Jay-Z on Instagram for encouraging old school rappers to respect the newer ones. Lyrically, Jay-Z criticizes old and new school rappers unfairly insulting each others' styles and feuding, while also noting how his previous affair became a liability to him ("Yeah, I'll fuck up a good thing if you let me / Let me alone, Becky"). Background and composition Ī sample of "Ha Ya" by the Clark Sisters is used in the song and also interpolated by Beyoncé. ![]() The song was released to British contemporary hit radio on January 26, 2018, as the album's third single. It is taken from Jay-Z's thirteenth studio album 4:44 (2017) and was produced by No I.D. And there are dance sequences inside and outside the building, staged by the avant-garde Belgian choreographer Sidi Larbi Cherkaoui, in which performers kneel like protesting football players and do synchronized abdominal exercises on the Daru stairs." Family Feud" is a song by American rapper Jay-Z featuring American singer Beyoncé. ![]() The couple and their dancers also perform in front of the large-scale paintings of revolutionary and early imperial France in the long Grande Galerie: David’s “Oath of the Horatii” and portrait of Madame Récamier Théodore Géricault’s “Charging Chasseur” and “Raft of the Medusa.” (Longtime Louvre watchers will know that Jay-Z is not the first black artist to rap there: In 2006, Toni Morrison invited slam poets from Paris’s banlieues to freestyle in front of Géricault’s shipwreck.)Ī hand-held camera pans across the ornate walls of the Apollo Gallery, built for Louis XIV, and zooms in on its gold-framed ceiling murals. In the video, directed by Ricky Saiz, Bey and Jay follow the well-trod tourist route past the Louvre’s three most famous works - the Venus de Milo on the ground floor, the Winged Victory of Samothrace atop the broad Daru staircase and the Mona Lisa in the Denon wing. Pei’s entrance pyramid and squirm in formation in front of Jacques-Louis David’s gigantic “Coronation of Napoleon.” It’s a firecracker of a song - and, from an art critic’s perspective, more sophisticated and more genuine than their earlier forays into museums and galleries, such as Jay-Z’s dreary Marina Abramovic parody “Picasso Baby.” The video for the single “Apes**t” sees Beyoncé, Jay-Z and their dancers vamp on Pierre Paulin’s circular gray banquettes, drop verses in front of I.M. Not only did the first couple of American pop music impose their standard omertà on the songwriters, musicians, producers and technicians who helped them complete their new album “Everything Is Love” they also got the mandarins of Paris’s largest museum to keep mum about their first single, whose video was shot in the galleries and the exterior plaza of the Musée du Louvre. So full credit to Beyoncé and Jay-Z - known, in tandem, as the Carters - for extending their cone of silence all the way to the City of Light. ![]() PARIS - More than art, more than music, what the cultural eminences of this city really love is gossip.
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