Jay-Z and Ava Duvernay Kill the Patriarchy in ‘Family Feud’ Video

First off, let’s get one thing right: Jay-Z has been dropping A1 videos of the highest woke content this entire year. Moonlight and The Story of OJ in particular were insanely good. And yes, I know, HOV petty for making all these videos Tidal exclusives, but at least he’s giving fans their money’s worth. He caps off his polarizing, highly political, and visual stunning run by enlisting Ava DuVernay to direct an ambitious look at a future. “The wretched of the Earth do not decide to become extinct, they resolve, on the contrary, to multiply: life is their weapon against life, life is all that they have.”- James Baldwin This 8-minute video short film starts off in the year 2444 focusing on the family dynamic and the fact that every fam makes mistakes, has unrealistic expectations, and is filled with jealousy. Michael B. Jordan out here lookin’ like the regal black Jedi we wish we had, draped in black in white with a slight hint of ivory blue talkin’ about respect and lack of judgment.

He big mad that Joan, played by Westworld’s phenomenal Thandie Newton, is the head of the family instead of him. She slaps him for his insolence and he grabs at her before seeing his sister’s newest ting, Moonlight’s Trevante Rhodes, in bed. They start fighting until he chokes Jordan out, but the matriarch of this fam ain’t gonna let something like that slide because “it’s not his, it’s not yours, it’s my throne”. She wipes a final kiss from her lips and walks out her room, bodies littered about …