In the Godfather-esque visual, Jay-Z confesses his sins of infidelity to his wife inside of a church, in response to Beyoncé’s cheating accusations on Lemonade. At one point during the song, Beyoncé sings, “Who wants that perfect love story anyway anyway / Cliché cliché cliché.”Īva DuVernay directed this short film, which is Bey and Jay’s only collaboration on 4:44, Jay-Z’s 2017 studio album that critics couldn’t review without referencing Beyoncé’s 2016 album, Lemonade. “Part II (On the Run)” is a sultry ballad that describes a couple’s (yes, theirs) relationship. Twelve years after shooting “‘03 Bonnie & Clyde,” Bey and Jay release what is often viewed as the song’s sequel. In the Los Angeles Times, Mikael Wood writes, “‘Drunk in Love” trades terrifically raunchy come-ons with Jay Z it’s like an NC-17 sequel to their 2003 smash ‘Crazy in Love.’”

At the 2014 MTV Video Music Awards, the music video wins Best Collaboration and is nominated for Video of the Year. When he does eventually make it into the screen, Beyoncé dances around Jay as he stays seated throughout his whole verse.įirst, Bey was “Crazy In Love.” Now, she’s “Drunk In Love.” This is the first video the couple releases after marrying in 2008, and their sexual chemistry is palpable as they sway into each other on a Florida beach at night. While Jay-Z raps throughout, he doesn’t appear in the video until the very end, as Bey raps his first few lines. Speaking to MTV in 2006, Beyoncé said, “Jay of course is on it, he blessed the song, I’m happy with it.”īey and Jay have crazy chemistry in this song, which they release the year before they marry.

This is the first Beyoncé music video featuring Jay-Z to premiere from her album, B’Day. We know at this point that the couple has been together for at least three years. Though they still have not yet confirmed their relationship at this point, Beyoncé releases her first solo album, Dangerously in Love, along with her first solo single, “Crazy in Love,” featuring Jay-Z. In a 2008 interview with Seventeen, Beyoncé retroactively confirms the relationship rumors, saying, “I was 18 when we first met, 19 when we first started dating.” So, Bey and Jay’s first encounter would have been in late 1999 or early 2000. In the visual, the couple - though their relationship is under wraps at this point - plays modern-day versions of the infamous 1920s bank robbers. This is the music video that starts dating rumors. In honor of the Carters’s latest visual collab, the Cut compiled a complete history of Beyoncé and Jay-Z’s relationship, as told through their music videos. Bey and Jay also released a visual for their song Apeshit, a Ricky Saiz–directed video that was shot in the damn Louvre. The couple - or should we say, The Carters - announced the collaboration during their Saturday night On The Run II concert in London, after which the nine-track album showed up on Tidal.

The whole world collectively canceled their plans last night when Beyoncé and Jay-Z, in typical Bey fashion, surprise-dropped their long-rumored joint album, Everything Is Love. Photo: Kevin Mazur/Getty Images For Parkwood Entert

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