
The video for “Formation” pays homage to post-Katarina New Orleans and ends with Bey using the weight of her body to sink a New Orleans police cruiser into the flood‘s waters. Putting middle fingers up to the state that incarcerates the most people per capita anywhere on the globe, and including an image of a Black boy dancing for his life while staring down a line of a police in riot gear, is a bold fuck-you to the forces that seek to snuff out