As others have noted, the shot - presumably taken by the video’s director Ricky Saiz - appears to be inspired by photographer Deana Lawson (seemingly of no relation to Bey’s stepfather, Richard Lawson), whose work captures black intimacy and domesticity not unlike the cover art and other shots throughout the video.Ī post shared by Slick Bonebreaker Video In the striking image, Harper is seen picking out Stewart’s hair in front of the Mona Lisa.

(More on that below.) It features two of Beyoncé’s dancers, So You Think You Can Dance season 10 contestant Jasmine Harper, and famed Brooklyn bone breaker Nicholas “Slick” Stewart, who also competed on SYTYCD and America’s Best Dance Crew.

The Everything Is Love cover is taken from a still from the only music video released from the album thus far, “Apeshit,” filmed inside the Louvre. Surprise! /SYnAm6zCy7- BEYONCÉ LEGION June 16, 2018 There was never a point where it was like, ‘I’m making this album.’ I was right there the entire time … It just felt like, she should go first and share her truths with the world.” He hinted that the music could someday still surface, which it did. So her album came out as opposed to the joint album that we were working on. “And then the music she was making at that time was further along. And we started making music together,” he said. “We were using our art almost like a therapy session. During his album rollout, Jay revealed that, yes, the joint album was in the pipeline when Detail said it was, but it was shelved once Lemonade - and the near-dissolution of their marriage - took priority. His, a mea culpa for cheating on his wife.įollowing the release of each album, rumors of that elusive joint album persisted, but it was Jay-Z himself who first confirmed its existence last year. Hers, a soul-baring masterpiece about black womanhood, self-worth, and trifling men. Instead, in 2016, Beyoncé released Lemonade and, in 2017, Jay-Z released 4:44. (Note that Detail is not credited on Everything Is Love.) Of course, we know now that’s not what happened. “When you think of Jay and Bey together, you think ‘album.’ You should already know,” he said at the time. The rumors of a joint album first took root in 2015, when producer Detail (the one multiple singers have accused of sexual assault), who previously worked on Beyoncé’s 2014 self-titled album, let slip that one was in the works and would be coming at some point that year. While the origin of some albums is only as old as two weeks prior to its release, a Beyoncé and Jay-Z joint affair has been years in the making - for more than a decade, to be precise, if you trace it back to the beginning of their musical (and real-life) relationship in 2002. The Most GIF-Able Moments From Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s ‘Apeshit’ Video

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