Beyoncé’s and Jay Z’s Apesh*t is Black Defiance in the time of Trump

This weekend, The Carters dropped their long promised collaborative album, Everything is Love. They announced this drop with the visuals for their song, Apes**t, seen above.

The epitome of the power couple literally shut down the Louvre, populated it with dancers of color and filled its halls with trap beats. The visual feast that is this video is a very black defiance and triumph in a traditionally white space.

I live. I am not the only one who thinks so. Rolling Stone also highlights these elements:

“Some of their mission involves the strategic highlighting of non-white images already in the Louvre. Beyoncé and Jay-Z rap in front of an Egyptian sphinx, and in galleries filled mostly with neo-classical French paintings — white artists, white subjects — the camera singles out black faces…Beyoncé and Jay-Z set about interjecting blackness into a space that has never placed much value on it, claiming one of the centerpieces of European culture with gleeful defiance.”

Again, I live.

The strategic choice of these specific paintings and placements are also not lost on us. A chain of Black dancers joined at the hands, arms raised in…