What is there to say? I'm growing sick of her stunts.

is growing old. I was never a fan like that, but I wonder if her fans are losing interest.

I had no idea it was a Beyonce promo because it looked like some True Detective shit. I had no idea that was Beyonce in a racoon fur.

we felt played when we realized it was some Beyonce bullshit.

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Very lame.

And not everyone has HBO.

And why am I paying for Tidal is she's still gonna give the give exclusives to a different media company.

I've learned to ignore Kanye's antics and appreciate the music (that I like anyway TLOP is mostly trash to me). I thought her self-titled album is prob her best tho. Pop Beyonce >>>> R&B Beyonce

i said this on facebook
in a sea of OMG SHE GAVE ME/US/BLACK FOLKS LIFE posts
i remain unmoved even after trying, reading the lyrics and confirming that I'd heard right and didn't miss a syllable, and honestly being open minded. still meh. unconvinced. feeling like she's faker than ever now and that disappoints me

Lemonade post


....as a recent post detailed.

Not one link in here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=okGJ-Fto36Q
http://www.usatoday.com/story/life/entertainthis/2016/04/16/beyonc-teases-beyhive-lemonade/83121854/

Not watching Beyonce videos at work, however.

on the night the 'thing' airs.

don't worry about it.

*drumrolls*

my first GF forgot to brush her teeth before church and gotdammit... you know you have to whisper to talk in church. I offered her a piece of gum and she refused!!!

Another time I was dating a messican girl from Chicago and I went to flaunt her to my boy at a party on Pitts campus. Her breath was kicking...

my boy was like "she fine as shit bro but... " and I cut him off in anger "yeah,i know, her breath is kicking... must be the tacos and blunts...ionno"

I don't really care what you have to say when your breath stinks

>I don't really care what you have to say when your breath
>stinks

I think they even have a free promotion week as well.

If you live with someone, they can sign up next month and that'll be free too.

because the material for the most part be on that weak sauce and unlike madonna prime she ain't got them money cuts. her events ain't that interesting, but her and Jay Z are on that lets do it over the top tip.

the thought of lemonade made me think of country time but naw she ain't have no sugar juice.

>because the material for the most part be on that weak sauce
>and unlike madonna prime she ain't got them money cuts.

and husband then had BLM mommas in da video cryin holdin up photographs of they dead sons

dats a lotta things but it aint weak lol


>>because the material for the most part be on that weak
>sauce

>because the material for the most part be on that weak sauce
>and unlike madonna prime she ain't got them money cuts. her
>events ain't that interesting, but her and Jay Z are on that
>lets do it over the top tip.
>
>the thought of lemonade made me think of country time but naw
>she ain't have no sugar juice.

There's no pure pop bliss like Drunk In Love but songs like Sorry and Hold Up will be blasting at various BBQ's for the next 3-4 months.

Bringing up Madonna vs Beyonce is something that's been kicking in my head for a minute; at this stage in her career Madonna was most def. giving diminishing returns/rehashes in attempts to keep up with the current pop stars half her age. Be it her or her songwriters; motherhood and marital issues (as opposed to generic relationship woes) get no burn at this level of pop and for her to pull it off comfortably is a change. It's going to be interesting to see how her career shifts as she enters her 40's and beyond.

i mean, unless this is a metaphor beyond me, she's spilling the beans.

divorce or Jigga gotta come w/ a Kobe ring x 100.

I thought I was gonna have fun pissing in the lemonade bowl but y'all already putting it down, carry on

fudge is made...

like women have not dealt with the stank breath of men

I am sure the "flaws" attracted Prince

anyone laying with jay is trying to absorb some bey

every other okp wife lost along with naz

this shit is gonna bang on a stereo

gah damn

>gah damn

defies logic to me. seems like bey didn't want to get showed up in those frames but I'mma tell you, my eyes were glued to serena every time she was on my screen. i barely even noticed bey next to her. hide her booty all you want. serena gone outshine you, bey.

B hasthat one line about "you better go call becky with the good hair (repeat)"

Then:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BEkyToHr6ZV/?taken-by=rachel_roy&hl=en

Unless it was the elevator incident, which shoulda been way after when dame was even relevant and worth getting at his girl. Then it's just stupid.


Jay DO have a history of going after his enemies' baby mommas tho, lol




*Middle of the night hours too, btw

He's a dirty dude. Then cheated on the barest and
richest chick in the game & she takes him back.
I can't call it.

and dudes that are serial-"fuck girls of guys i don't like" are in need of counseling for some, uh...repressed issues they have...

plus she got mad stamina n a sick dancer

bey gotta have badu level snapper

she and solange be havin jay lookin CRAZY

nigga stays PUT


she do come across like da Suge Knight in dat shit tho

That shit ain't cool either

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHMNPUyPW48

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"Where was the peace when we were getting shot? Where's the peace when we were getting laid out?
Where is the peace when we are in the back of ambulances? Where is the peace then?
They don't want to call for peace then.

http://nymag.com/following/2016/04/rachel-roy-posts-unsubtle-beyonc-related-photo.html


https://twitter.com/Rachel_Roy/status/724279585613963265

The Hive went after her! The Wikipedia page had me dying!

I believe that some of the album is about her and Jay. But some of it is about her parents. And she and Jay are good now. But like ive said before...every married couple has its issues. They were able to overcome their issues.

I'm happy for them and can't wait until the album appears on iTunes this week.

bricks.

But this might be my favorite album by her & salute to my boo Wynter Gordon

Visual piece to Lemonade is really great.

Only real dud is Daddy Issues.

I'm so old, I come to OKP to see what the young kids is up to

I can't afford a Tidal membership

We had this discussion here before.
I was like "Jay-Z is tired of Beyonce's shit" or something to that effect and that post went NUTZ
And now, 3, 4, 5 years later Bey is comfortable and confident enough to admit yes, Jay was tired of her shit and that's what drove her to be in my bed* those nights at 3am

But yeah, I wish them the best for the benefit of Blue and their unborn but it's all good.

*Disclaimer: That was before I was married.

>*Disclaimer: That was before I was married.

the puppet got some real emotions and feelings after all.

reppin NOLA to da fullest

just shovin da souf down peoples THROATS yo

meanwhile Baby pickin schoolyard fights wit radio niggas like a lil bitch

>reppin NOLA to da fullest


I bet she voted for HRC

LOL

n thats why she n solange rep it so hard

they seem more close wit they maternal family

Grandmomma from out Lafeyette way

Still far cry from nawlins, gotta pass Baton Rouge first

I'm just sayin guys

Not trying to nitpick this Sabbath

And his album sales will drop
Yall know how this ain't how any of this works.

I still love her tho.

If Drake reps the Mound too hard, I know Mound niggas that's gonna be up at Marlowe's outside where his pops likes to hang out askin' bout that...

I won't be one of'em though...

some people think it's about her parents.
I don't know enough (or any) of the Bey-ography, so I can't comment on that, but I don't think this is necessarily about her and Jay. Maybe. Maybe not.

I mean these songs were written by OTHER people... lol

How autobiographical can it be?

.

It being written by other people doesn't mean that it's not. Since the self-titled album, I get the feeling that she's taken much more control of the music's direction than when she was doing more straight R&B which was more of the producers' visions. So whether it's about her or not, I think it's definitely her say going into it the album lyrics.

like this verse from Hold Up. how do you interpret this as anything other than being about Jay

Let's imagine for a moment that you never made a name for yourself
Or mastered wealth, they had you labeled as a king
Never made it out the cage, still out there movin' in them streets
Never had the baddest woman in the game up in your sheets
Would they be down to ride?
No, they used to hide from you, lie to you
But y'all know we were made for each other
So I find you and hold you down

the whole album aint about jay. it's about how the women in her fam relate to the men in their lives. and making the best you can out of some fucked up situations.

>Never had the baddest woman in the game up in your sheets

Yeah Bey's line right here is hard to deny. Remember "Got the hottest chick in the game wearin my chain" from PSA.

Its Art..

And her and her squad are really really good at it now..

Here is what I will say.. last few years... man Black music got black as fuck again!!

pretty dope

I'm happy that she's finally gotten to THIS level.
For years, I've thought Beyonce was spectacularly underwhelming... A shift started with that last album. It's come all the way through with this project.
She's about something now.
She's creating great art.

It would be foolish to think someone wouldn't borrow from their life/experiences, but like I said -- I don't think this is an autobio.

which aint really no knock against pops


he helped her build her beyhive

but she rockin her throne da way she want now

lyrics don't have to be autobiographical. did we forget that? is it Hip-Hop's fault? niggas can't appreciate FICTIONal song lyrics?

LOL

sheesh.

.

I use a family members log in so it's Free.99

I wonder if I can listen to it on my Firestick?

Is Tidal the only place to hear this album?
I don't have iTunes, googleplay, spotify, none of that.
Can someone rip this to YouTube already?

>

I don't read as much as I did within the last few years due to taking care of ill parents, but I mainly read classic fiction, usually black and African lit with the occasional Hemingway or Russian realist, but always had a hard time looking for good contemporary writers. Shire's poetry on this album is amazing. I looked her up and found the Home poem, and was overwhelmed. Writers who have that ability to captivate and speak with such power in few words have always inspired me. Plus, I generally don't like poetry, mainly prefer prose or long-form fiction (which is ironic considering the brevity thing that I dig). I know some okayplayers got to be up on her, so I would love any recs or just general discussion on her stuff.

Art and Beyoncé has finally come in to her own as a woman, artist and icon. She is representing women on this album, all the hardships and tribulations women face, especially black women.
For me, she's saying that she's been through it too and, like other women, these are all the things she felt and all the processes she went through.
I'm really loving this new bey, and I really wasn't a fan.

In the world of evil revenge logic, I ain't saying its right but I see the angle in creeping after your enemy's SO.

And Jay and Rachel basically were both Dames' enemies..
Then add ego and pettiness to the mix




But they got the rita bored-a chick up next

If true, Maaaaan no way that was worth it

Jay Lost


https://twitter.com/Liberienne/status/724358500445356032?

I was hovering over the free trial last night when my girl came through with the Free.99

This is a serious piece of work, ladies and gentlemen. I'm not taking it as autobiographical... it obviously takes in her experience from Jay and he doesn't come out unscathed, but it's been moulded into a full album that digs into the relationships Black women find themselves in in America. It's an album all teenage girls and boys should listen to. Even when she's tearing Jay apart she's acknowledging that esteem issues are at play on both sides of the gender divide... lamenting the male-dominated, aggressive culture at the heart of too many lives that leaves men incapable of love and inexorably drawn to the grave and jailhouse and women stuck in a cycle of heartbreak and grief.

Not many pop acts can grab my attention like this in 2016.

I think it's supposed to be a sort of amalgamation of the black woman's experience of relationships and family... so it takes hers, her Mom, maybe her sisters/friends experiences and flattens them into one massive piece of work.

Whatever it is, isn't or whatever is true or not... it's one hell of a pop record.

I wasn't feeling the formation song but it makes a lot more sense now hearing the album. By far this is her best work.

I also don't think jay cheated
rather, good marketing...

#winners

as opposed to a singing dancing pop-robot made in a factory.

It's also nice to see a pop star mature in topics as opposed to 30, 40, 50 year olds still trying to keep up with the 20 year old pop jonses,

While its been a rough year death wise, as far as music is concerned 2016 has been flames.

I tried to listen to the album by itself and it didn't move me, not sayin it ain't good but...

Yeah it's there in the songwriting and lyrics, but her voice still sounds like generic-good-singer-voice. I don't hear any of the feeling and emotion in the voice, so it sounds more like an actor playing a role.

lol

who?

Prince died.

lol

i just heard about the album 5 minutes ago. i haven't been online since Saturday night.

and i don't.

i listened to the first 2 songs and they were 'eh'. and the video - i can't get past the part w/her kneeling in front of that red curtain b4 i turn it off.

and hearing that the Hive is attacking Rachel Roy AND Rachel Ray b/c they're THAT stupid just turns me off from this whole project. i don't give a fuck if Jay fucked Rachel from friends. i don't give a fuck about hearing Yonce whining over piano about being a bad bitch that he cheated on and going through his phone and whatever the hell.

plus Prince died.

I am so not a prince fan

not today.

i love you :) lol

i think she should have pushed the release date back out of respect for Prince (that's the first thing that turned me off). but naw, bey gotta get every drop of shine on her.

I don't care much for Yonce as a general matter. She cool but not one of my faves, as P's death made crystal clear. There is no act who couldve released anything that would've drawn my attention from Prince this week. Period. So I'm fine with the world going on as scheduled - MINE will not. I understand this thing was in the works for too long to postpone its release. I don't expect that Yonce or anyone postpone a release bc I'm deep in my feelings and off into Prince records and stuff. Hell, it's Yonce - I'd struggle to care regardless.
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Exactly HOW would she have done that?

Would you have postponed an event months (years?) in the making because someone died? I hope not, cause that's goofy.

And why?
Prince didn't celebrate holidays and only 20 people were invited to his funeral. He definitely wouldn't have wanted art to be put on pause for his death.

It hit so close to home.

Then I read it was some Somali chick from the UK who wrote all of that. At least she has good taste.

I had it on last night and was doing other things, so I wasn't listening closely. But I still don't hear good tunes. I hear ideas and fragments and some sounds that probably caught her ear that she ran with (pure speculation on my part).

It's for that reason that I very much believe she *is* writing her own songs, or imposing her will upon her co-writers, for the most part. Her best songs were written basically by other people (Me, Myself And I; Irreplaceable; Love On Top).

but IMO these tunes sounded good to my ears.

maybe I'm different but I don't need deep, dark insightful lyrics from Beyonce for her to be legit.

I just want it to sound good and IMO this project accomplished that goal.

>deep, dark insightful
>lyrics

By mentioning the songs I like the most from her, I'd rather hear that: simple stuff with great melodies and good rhythms.

I'll give it another listen soon.

beyonce gets cheated on and the story makes her millions.

you get cheated on and the story might not get 100 replies in GD.

The album is the full arc of their relationship. Foul-up, forgiveness and moving forward.

Grown-up shit.

>

This is a nice distraction for me in mourning of Prince

is to make an entire album and movie about the shit. As intensely private as she is she would not open herself up to repeated questions about something so personal and painful as THAT shit. That's not her - she's not that messy. Plus she would not have him in the damned movie. I just don't see it.

The lyrics are most likely fiction based on stories she and others have heard from anywhere - we have ALL heard this story even if we haven't lived it. Shit - I could make a 'fuck that motherfucker' album today when I'm very much in like with a guy who has not wronged me at all. I would tap former personal and observed experiences. That's how we create fiction. It's not a new thing. This thing here is most likely that - fiction.
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she is not letting us in like that. she is obsessed with controlling her image. no vulnerability allowed...unless it makes $$$
but i'm out. i'm retired from okp ;)

WONT HE DO IT!!

YES, HE WILL!!

app...
I see nada...


*get ready....for your blessing"

Youtube.
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Tidal...

N/m

Beyonce is about to become a billionare off this Lemonade.....


SHe really is about her business...