July 30. 2020

R&B singer Beyonce and her husband rapper Jay Z are among the biggest thieves in music. Their entire careers have been built on criminal copyright infringement, copyright infringement, conversion, fraud, threats and racketeering (Beyonce And Jay Z Copyright Infringement).

They have stolen copyrights from many people like me (The FBI Is Stonewalling Congress On Releasing FBI File In Madonna Human Rights Abuse Case (Congressional Documents) and Beyonce And Jay Z Steal From Another Jamaican Artist Resulting In A Lawsuit).

As written on the site last week in the July 24, 2020 Judiciary Report article "Beyonce Steals From 'Black Panther' Movie For Her New Documentary And Album 'Black Is King'" Beyonce has stolen the 2018 blockbuster, billion selling film "Black Panther" for her crappy documentary "Black Is King." Once again, Beyonce says she wrote, produced and directed "Black Is King" which means she is responsible for the criminal copyright infringement of the preexisting film "Black Panther."

Beyonce deceitfully claims she wrote, directed and produced the knock off "Black Is King" when she is darn near illiterate, with no high school diploma, and can't write, direct or produce anything. The same goes for Jay Z, who does not have a high school diploma, yet claims his peers are Ivy League university educated men such as Steve Jobs and Warren Buffet. Beyonce and Jay Z act like they smoke the crack cocaine he used to sell as a drug dealer in New York and Virginia (which is how he started his subsidiary record label Rocafella - with drug money).

Last week, Beyonce was slammed by African scholars for cultural appropriation present in the documentary "Black Is King." A journalist also slammed Beyonce for ripping off another African film, the 1973 movie "Touki Bouki", which she has stolen from before for her tour "On The Run." 

Beyonce and Jay Z (pictured left) keep stealing from the 197 African film "Touki Bouki" (pictured right) giving no credit or payment to the copyright owner/writer/director which has caused Africans to slam her all over the internet

The article stated, "Beyoncé appears astride a horse, wearing an outfit made of animal hide and a crown of zebu horns. This iconographic imagery is reminiscent of the film Touki Bouki directed by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty in 1973. The singer had previously borrowed this aesthetic when advertising her “OTR II” tour with Jay-Z in 2018, without giving credit to the original artist."

Beyonce has also stolen several preexisting documentary films, slapped her corrupt, thieving name on it, then corrupted judges when the original copyright holders brought lawsuits against her for the unlawful conduct (Beyonce Has Been Stealing Documentaries In Violation Of Copyright Law While Fraudulently Labeling Herself A Director And Producer and Beyonce And Her Team Vulgarly Slam Emmys For Snub Of Her Copyright Infringing 'Homecoming' Documentary).

Let's not forget last year's brazen theft of copyrights by Beyonce for the reboot "Lion King" soundtrack and music videos which all flopped under a barrage of criticism and condemnation on social networking over Beyonce's arrogant stealing (Beyonce Songs 'Spirit' And 'Brown Skin Girl' From The Movie 'The Lion King' Contains Copyright Infringement And Contradictions and Beyonce’s New Song 'Spirit' From 'The Lion King' Reboot Flops On The Charts And Its Music Video Is A Brazen Rip Off).

Beyonce and others in the Hollywood cult Kabbalah, such as known industry thief and copycat Madonna, have disgraced the U.S. judiciary to the whole watching world with this corruption and bribery. They have brought the U.S. judiciary into disrepute all over the world, as these stories of her thefts and that of her fellow cult members, are all over social networking, blogs, and global publications, such as magazines and newspapers.

All of Beyonce's projects have been flopping for the past several years (and getting worse) as people are boycotting her rip-offs. People are tired of it. She's going to keep going with this madness and it will reach the point where she gets booed off stages (she and others in her Hollywood cult) for their refusal to stop stealing. There will be further legal action taken against them all over the world that will completely change the game regarding their criminal conduct in committing wholesale financial crimes.

This is one of the things I cannot stand with that Hollywood cult. People spend years of their time and money developing copyrights and that cult just arrogantly and insanely marches in and steals them, slapping their corrupt, crazy, thieving names on them, which is a domestic and international crime.

They have no respect for other people’s rights and property. They look like blasted fools and idiots stealing everything in sight, then insanely telling the world its theirs, especially on a project like “Black Panther“ that so many people all over the world have seen.

Beyonce looks like a complete idiot and lunatic stealing “Black Panther” (and other films) then calling it a film she wrote, produced and directed when she does none of those things. What a fraud and so cocky with it too. And she is going to end up in prison with what she’s doing, because some of her misconduct constitutes criminal copyright infringement and she (among others in that Hollywood cult) are engaging in commissioned criminal wiretapping and hacking, among other misconduct (similar to the Anthony Pellicano criminal case).

As stated on the site last week, Beyonce's 2020 documentary film "Black is King" is about a young African king trying to reclaim his throne via his ancestors and childhood love. Those of you who have seen the billion selling 2018 film "Black Panther" will recognize Beyonce's "Black Is King" as a rip-off of the "Black Panther" plot line.

In "Black Panther" the young African prince turned king (T'Challa) loses the throne of the fictional African nation "Wakanda" and seeks to reclaim his throne with the help of his ancestors and childhood love (Nakia played by Academy Award winner Lupita Nyong'o).

The lead single from Beyonce's "Black is King" is called "Black Parade" which is even close in lettering to "Black Panther has already flopped on the charts and in sales last month. The song flopped in one week. Once again, people are boycotting her and others in her Hollywood cult for stealing.

Today, I have done a quick comparison of "Black Panther" and Beyonce's subsequent, later filmed and released theft "Black Is King" to show the infringements. I've done it almost storyboard style to show you the thefts of copyright from a real writer and director's perspective.

I have studied filmmaking since I was 14 (and began copyrighting at that age as a child prodigy) and never have I seen such brazen and arrogant mimicking, copying and foolishnesses as I've seen in "Black Is King." Beyonce and Jay Z are two crazy, lame brained, ignorant idiots who've stolen and devalued a billion dollar film clearly, thinking it will make them a billion dollars as well (it won't) like two vile, thieving criminals.

Here are the similarities to "Black Panther" that I found from the trailer alone of "Black Is King" which lets me know the full documentary is even worse and more laden with thefts of copyright:

"Black Panther" released in 2018	"Black Is King" rip-off released 2-years later in 2020
"Black Panther" scene of asteroid hitting earth	"Black Is King" scene of asteroid hitting earth
"Black Panther" scene of car with purple highlighting	"Black Is King" scene of car with purple highlighting
"Black Panther" scene of asteroid hitting land by water	"Black Is King" scene of asteroid hitting land by water
"Black Panther" scene of African mountains	"Black Is King" scene of African mountains
"Black Panther" scene regarding contents of ceremonial bowl administered to prince	"Black Is King" scene regarding contents of ceremonial bowl administered to prince
"Black Panther" scene of shadow of a man in jungle	"Black Is King" scene of shadow of a man in jungle
"Black Panther" throne scene	"Black Is King" throne scene
"Black Panther" scene of a group of Africans wearing green	"Black Is King" scene of a group of Africans wearing green
"Black Panther" scene of Lupita Nyong'o in jungle	"Black Is King" scene of Lupita Nyong'o in jungle
"Black Panther" scene of little black boy who is a prince in parking area	"Black Is King" scene of little black boy who is a prince in parking area
"Black Panther" scene of women going to apartment	"Black Is King" scene of woman going to apartment

Beyoncé’s new film ‘Black Is King’ is stirring up controversy

Posted on Friday, 24 July 2020 14:24 - One year after the release of the album “The Lion King: The Gift”, Queen Bey is about to unveil a new Disney production. Made in the style of a long, meticulously crafted music video, this condensed version of Black history is already proving to be divisive.

“The film is not available anywhere before its release,” warns a press officer about Beyoncé’s new visual album, Black Is King, which is set to be released on Disney+ on 31 July. But all it took to attract the ire of African-American feminists, especially the youngest among them, was the film’s one-and-a-half-minute trailer.

Criticism of the work is going strong and has a radical bent, with detractors calling out the trailer for romanticising Africa as well as for its cultural syncretism, pre-colonial aesthetic, cultural appropriation and “Wakandafication” (in reference to the Kingdom of Wakanda, a fictional African country depicted by the Marvel movie Black Panther).

Jade Bentil, a Black feminist historian and PhD researcher at the University of Oxford, commented in a tweet: “The repeated tropes/symbolic gestures that homogenise & essentialise thousands of African cultures in service of securing the terrain for Black capitalist possibilities & futures is tired.”

Judicaelle Irakoze, a self-proclaimed Afro-political feminist who is followed by more than 30,000 people on Twitter, expressed a similar point of view, disappointed that Beyoncé “use[s] her power and status […] to glorify africanness rooted in power game[s] against the white gaze.”

Just a few seconds into Black Is King’s meticulously crafted trailer, Beyoncé appears astride a horse, wearing an outfit made of animal hide and a crown of zebu horns. This iconographic imagery is reminiscent of the film Touki Bouki directed by Senegalese filmmaker Djibril Diop Mambéty in 1973. The singer had previously borrowed this aesthetic when advertising her “OTR II” tour with Jay-Z in 2018, without giving credit to the original artist.

The trailer shows Queen Bey glittering in all her glory, with layered necklaces wrapped around her neck and sparkling glasses framing her face, giving off an on-screen presence that could be likened to a bling-bling version of the Dahomey Amazons (an all-female military army of the Republic of Benin). Needless to say, this aestheticising phantasmagoria created in an Afrofuturist vein is not universally liked.

However, according to the journalist Sophie Rosemont, it’s precisely “the role of a pop star to make a statement through an aesthetic prism. Even if the statement is political, it has to be packaged as beautiful and spark people’s imaginations,” says the author of the French book Black Power, l’avènement de la pop culture afro-américaine (Black Power: the Advent of African-American Pop Culture), to be published in October by GM Éditions.

In a post on Instagram, the singer said that she “wanted to present elements of Black history and African tradition, with a modern twist and a universal message.”

“It is too bad that Beyoncé doesn’t seem to take contemporary Africa into account in her film and has rooted its imagery in a tribal Africa. Other musicians before her, such as free jazz artists from the 1950s and 1960s, have already revisited these roots,” adds Rosemont. “Since that time period, pop culture has been so deeply influenced by ancestral reference points that it’s really about time to move on to something else.”
Biblical and Yoruba symbolism

“The ancestors never left you,” chants the 38-year-old star in a spoken-word style summoning the negro spiritual songs sung by slaves deported to the United States in the nineteenth century. Wearing a white dress, Beyoncé evokes a sort of Madonna as she cradles a newborn baby on the seashore. The sequence is a cross between biblical and Yoruba symbolism.

Black Is King has a soundtrack featuring songs from the album “The Lion King: The Gift”, all of which were performed by Nigerian, South African, Ghanaian and Cameroonian artists.

Kinitra Brooks, a professor of African-American literature specialising in Black feminist theory, notes in her work The Lemonade Reader: Beyoncé, Black Feminism and Spirituality, published in 2019, the prevalence of references to African ancestral religions in the film Lemonade, a companion to one of Beyoncé’s most politically-charged albums (released in 2016) which overflows with protest songs about Black and African pride.

In one of the sequences, Queen Bey has fun playing the role of the Yoruba deity Oshun, the goddess of love and fertility, protector of pregnant women and children, and queen of freshwater.

Brooks writes in her book: “The liquid element represents a literal or symbolic return to the Atlantic Ocean waters which are part of the ancestral past and collective memory. The presence of water […] points out […] to the Atlantic journey from Africa to the Americas.”

This bridge between Africa’s history and diaspora has continued to influence Beyoncé’s visual identity and sound since 2016. The problem is that this age-old narrative has gone stale, especially if it is not backed up with concrete action.
Black rights

Another criticism the R&B queen has faced is that she does not tour often enough in Africa. However, her focus has been on involving local stars in her projects to showcase contemporary African culture.

As Rosemont points out, whereas “Michael Jackson and Rihanna sampled a line from the hit song ‘Soul Makossa’ by Cameroonian musician Manu Dibango without properly crediting him in their respective compositions”, Black Is King has a soundtrack featuring songs from the album “The Lion King: The Gift”, all of which were performed by Nigerian, South African, Ghanaian and Cameroonian artists...

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Published: 20:01 EDT, 3 July 2020 | Updated: 03:26 EDT, 4 July 2020  - The proud mother took to Instagram on Friday and hit back at critics who claim the pop superstar is 'appropriating' African culture in her upcoming visual album.

Black Is King, which is based on the soundtrack she produced for the 2019 animated remake of The Lion King, follows the story of a young king's 'transcendent journey through betrayal, love and self-identity,' while ultimately celebrating 'Black resilience and culture.'

Proud mother: Tina Knowles came to the defense of her daughter and hit back at critics who accused Beyonce of 'appropriating' African culture in her upcoming visual album, Black Is King.

The criticism from several academics began shortly after last week's release of the trailer, which features Beyonce and an array of Black creators and talent --some of which are from Africa -- dressed in traditional African garb, complete with biblical references and Beyonce's narration and soothing vocals...

Published: 12:46 EDT, 19 July 2020 | Updated: 15:02 EDT, 19 July 2020 - She was recently criticized for appropriating African culture. But the outlandish remarks haven't kept Beyonce down, releasing the second trailer to her latest visual album, Black Is King.

The 38-year-old beauty was seen in various looks while narrating the darkly lit upcoming spectacular. New trailer: Beyonce stunned in various looks including a catsuit for the latest trailer for her Black Is King visual album that was released on Sunday morning...