Juneteenth 2020 saw the return of Public Enemy, a fresh batch of projects from artists such as Wale, Skyzoo and Black Eyed Peas and now, a new Beyoncé song. On Friday evening (June 19), the multiplatinum-selling superstar resurfaced with a single called “Black Parade,” exclusively via TIDAL (because, of course).
The song surfaced hours after the Houston native announced an initiative to support black-owned businesses in an Instagram post.
“Happy Juneteenth Weekend!” she wrote in the caption. I hope we continue to share joy and celebrate each other, even in the midst of struggle. Please continue to remember our beauty, strength and power. Being Black is your activism. Black excellence is a form of protest. Black joy is your right.”
The 4:41-minute offering finds Beyoncé singing about black love, her ancestral roots, “charging her crystals in a full moon,” the need for reparations and the current civil unrest in the United States.
“You could send them missiles, I’ma send my goons/Baby sister rappin’, hear me out, hear me out/Trust me, they gon’ need an army (Ah)/Rubber bullets bouncin’ off me (Ah)
Made your picket sign, I’m your picket fence (Ah) …. Lay down, face down in the gravel/Woo, wearin’ all attire white to the funeral/Black love, we gon’ stay together,” she sings.
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The song marks the mother of three’s first solo music since her contributions to The Lion King companion album The Gift last year. More recently, she appeared on Megan Thee Stallion’s chart-topping remix of “Savage.”
Stream “Black Parade” below or find it on TIDAL here.
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Like her whole career isnt build on light skin and fake european hair….
Fake
Yea cuz her skin color is the problem lmao! Y’all are so trash that you’ll claim black excellence then trash people based on skin color? She trash but the skin color ain’t nothing to do with it, sheep. You exactly the type of follower that these people need.
Finally new stuff from Beyonce!
I knneeeewwww she would make a song to profit lmao ‘rubber bullets bouncing of me’ in what call of duty? Bc u damn sure were in a mansion the whole protest
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But if Johnny Cash put out a “White Parade” single that’d be racist right, that’s how you bigoted and hypocritical democrats think right?
I went to a badass juneteenth event out here in Cali. They had so many keynote speakers from Blacks to Mexicans to an old Native American women. They were handing out these dope Fuck Trump stickers lmao
This tribal bullshit is so funny to me. In the face of mountains of evidence, you’ll still claim to be oppressed. Why do Nigerian Americans earn more than whites in this country? Maybe it’s not about race- maybe it’s about culture. Also, Beyoncé rails her husband with a strap on.
Nigerians are very hardworking, intelligent people. Many Nigerians have made millions, I agree with that – Kanye told the culture slavery is a mentality and y’all ostracized him for it. Maybe he was on to something?
Tolerance at its finest. Let’s make race relations worse. Cause that’s the answer.
Jay obviously wrote the song for her. Still payin her back for cheating
The first slave owners were black!! We should tear down the pyramids and the Sphinx. They were built by Hebrew slaves (Joos) for the Pharos. They represent hate and oppression! A LITTLE JUNETEENTH HISTORY FOR THAT ASS!……………………
In Senegambia, between 1300 and 1900, close to one-third of the population was enslaved. In early Islamic states of the Western Sudan, including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population was enslaved. In Sierra Leone in the 19th century about half of the population consisted of slaves. In the 19th century at least half the population was enslaved among the Duala of the Cameroon, the Igbo and other peoples of the lower Niger, the Kongo, and the Kasanje kingdom and Chokwe of Angola. Among the Ashanti and Yoruba a third of the population consisted of slaves. The population of the Kanem was about a third slave. It was perhaps 40% in Bornu (1396–1893). Between 1750 and 1900 from one- to two-thirds of the entire population of the Fulani jihad states consisted of slaves. The population of the Sokoto caliphate formed by Hausas in northern Nigeria and Cameroon was half-slave in the 19th century. It is estimated that up to 90% of the population of Arab-Swahili Zanzibar was enslaved. Roughly half the population of Madagascar was enslaved. Slavery in Ethiopia persisted until 1942. The Anti-Slavery Society estimated that there were 2,000,000 slaves in the early 1930s, out of an estimated population of between 8 and 16 million. It was finally abolished by order of emperor Haile Selassie on 26 August 1942.
We should all leave to whatever countries our ancestors are from and give back America to the natives. That sounds fair, right? I’m with it. I think a lot of people complaining right now would shut the fuck up quickly if that was the case.
Wait a sec. Most of those dates pre date slavery in the US and they are ALL African? Ethiopia had slavery for almost 60 years longer than us? That’s not taught in our schools. I wonder why?