Beyonce’s New Album Lemonade Speaks Volumes

Queen B is at it again, but this time her music will touch you to the core. It’ll take a while to absorb everything that Beyonce has poured into her sixth studio album. The lead single, “6 Inch,” is a dark and dedicated shout-out to every woman on her grind. With this album, Beyoncé is telling us that she’s made it this far in spite of the system in place. She was served lemons and made Lemonade.

Lemonade is more than just a play for pop supremacy. It’s the work of an artist who is trying to get to know herself better, for better or worse, and letting the listeners/viewers in on the sometimes brutal self-interrogation. There is more to this album than meets the eye, the song Sorry, have already sparked more  rumors on their “troubled” marriage.

She pulls in Diplo, Kendrick Lamar, the Weekend and one of his producers, but relative newcomers also play significant roles: singer-songwriter Kevin Garrett and Mississippi-born MC Khalif Brown, a cameo from British dubstep producer-singer James Blake, quotes from Vampire Weekend and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.