The duo would join forces again and again on tracks and whole albums (singles “Crazy in Love” and “Drunk in Love,” the “On the Run” tour and the “Everything is Love” record). But really he’s talking to whoever’s listening, because the collaboration functioned like a save-the-date for the next two decades. “You ready, B? Let’s go get ’em,” Jay-Z tells his girl, whom he was rumored to be dating at the time, at the top of the track. It’s a smooth groove over a Tupac sample with Jay-Z’s signature lyricism and Bey’s R&B improvs. She provided no context for his life or death.On its face, Beyoncé's first non- soundtrack single without her Destiny’s Child bandmates doesn’t seem particularly earth-shattering.
"In focusing on black New Orleanian lives, it would have been easy for Beyoncé to dedicate 'Formation' to Messy Mya and other victims of gun violence. "A marginalized queer black man, Messy Mya, in all of his wildest imagination, ribbing, and capping would not have believed that the world’s biggest pop star would use his voice in a video - without, however, acknowledging his humanity in life and in death," wrote documentary filmmaker Shantrelle Lewis last year in Slate. Meanwhile, other critics accused the 35-year-old singer of cultural appropriation, and the Mya cameo was often singled out as one of the more egregious miscues. Beyonce performs onstage during the Pepsi Super Bowl 50 Halftime Show at Levi's Stadium on Feb. However, detractors on the right alleged that the video - and Beyoncé's subsequent Black Panther-inspired Super Bowl halftime show performance of it - were disrespectful toward law enforcement.
Arguably Beyoncé's most overtly political statement when it was released, the video feature nods to the Black Lives Matter movement, natural hair and feminism. Ever since "Formation" debuted a year ago, it has stoked debate and widespread acclaim.
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