Topping the list - so far - is "Crazy In Love" by the incomparable Beyoncé, featuring Jay-Z. Here's the short version so you don't have to scroll. The result captures a wide range of genres and a diverse group of artists. To curate the list, Rolling Stone let artists, producers, critics, and industry experts weigh in on their top picks before culling the information into one inclusive list. Yet given the sheer volume of music already released, it seems rather prudent to get to work now. We're only 18 years into the 21st century, so it may seem like an odd time to curate a list commemorating a century's worth of songs, since we still have decades to go before we reach the turn of the next century. There's the "100 Greatest Songwriters," "The 50 Greatest Concerts of the Last 50 Years" and now, behold: " The 100 Greatest Songs of the Century - So Far." Rolling Stone loves publishing lists and we are here for it. Beyoncé's personal writing and lyrics are interwoven throughout the book."Īccording to The Fader, the beautiful book features exclusive collages and photographs from the making of Lemonade, including costumes and moments from the videos, such as the Laolu Senbanjo Yoruba body painting featured in "Sorry" as well as a "spread about headwraps and Louisiana's antebellum Tignon law." Michael Eric Dyson with poetry by Warsan Shire. "The 600-plus-page hardcover book includes hundreds of never-before-seen photos from the making of Lemonade, and shows the inspiration and themes behind some of the film's most provocative and cryptic moments," says the official description. Now that the set is here, we finally have gotten a look inside the coffee table book. Pray without ceasing.īeyoncé wins Best Urban Contemporary Album GRAMMYĪnnounced in May, the Lemonade box set includes a first pressing of the double vinyl LP, audio and video downloads, and a stunning visual coffee table book commemorating the album. So much damage being done all around the world. My heart goes out to the people of Mexico today. Our thoughts and prayers are with the people of Mexico right now. my heart is with u, sending prayers and loveĮstas imagines me duelen en el alma, Te quiero Mexico
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So sorry about what has happened in Mexico City. My prayers and thoughts are with the people of Mexico City & Puerto Rico today and everyday. This is a fight for anyone who feels marginalized, who is struggling for freedom and human rights.My absolutely breaks for u Mexico & everyone affected by these recent natural disasters. No matter your race, gender or sexual orientation.
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She continued: “These robberies of lives make us feel helpless and hopeless but we have to believe that we are fighting for the rights of the next generation, for the next young men and women who believe in good.
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“We don’t need sympathy,” Beyoncé wrote in a post on her website titled “Freedom,” after the protest song on “Lemonade” that features a fiery cameo from the rapper Kendrick Lamar. On Thursday, the singer, who rarely grants interviews or inserts herself into controversial topics, spoke out more plainly following the fatal police shootings this week of Alton Sterling in Baton Rouge, La., and Philando Castile in Falcon Heights, Minn. And in “Lemonade,” the HBO art film that accompanied her album, there was more overt cultural pride, along with cameos by the family members of black men killed by police, including the mothers of Trayvon Martin, Michael Brown and Eric Garner. Her subsequent performance of “Formation” at the Super Bowl featured outfits and imagery borrowed from the Black Panthers. In February, she released “Formation,” a celebration of her black Southern heritage, with a video that invoked the Black Lives Matter movement - “Stop Shooting Us” read the literal writing on the wall. A more politically engaged Beyoncé has been brewing for some time now.