Beyoncé and Kendrick Lamar Went Back to Back on Peak Blackness

It’s time for Yonce fans to get in Formation! [youtube link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LrCHz1gwzTo” width=”590″ height=”315″] This video right here mayne? This Bama blackness right heerrreeee? This is what Black dreams are made of. This is what MLK was dreaming we could do one day (along with many other things, don’t get it twisted). Where do I even begin? Well, lets start off with that opening scene of Bey on top of a cop car 90% submerged in what I can only guess is flooded Bayou levee water. How many instances of symbolism can YOU spot in this shot?

Maaannnnn I can’t even be my usual eloquent self when it comes to this video! I’m bout to go mad Generation X – Millennial hybrid ADHD on ya right now: That entire set-up on the plantation? Beyonce murdering that choreographed dance in the halls of that mansion? Blue Ivy and that FRO?! Blue Ivy and her very own Destiny’s Child squad?! Blue Ivy and that SNARL tho?!

The Dance with all the girls in Gucci-esk outfits swervin in the drained pool? The 90’s style shitty quality scenes? Bravo. HOT SAUCE IN MY BAG SWAG???? WHEN HE F**K ME GOOD, I TAKE HIS ASS TO RED LOBSTER? That crazy ass dress and hat combo Bey rocks on the porch? The little kid absolutely murdering that dance in front of the line of police officers? The line of cops joining the little boy in a hands up don’t shoot salute?!

#BLACKLIVESMATTER Yo. Yoo. Yooo! This is what the world needed to see. This is what the Black community needed from the greatest e…

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