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4:44

4:44

Music

8m

July 6, 2017 (8 years ago)

Overview

Centers on two performances; in the first, dancers Storyboard P and Okwui Okpokwasili twist and twine their bodies in a moving two-part dance of desire, pain, and regret. In the second, present-day hip-hop royalty Beyoncé and Jay-Z serenade each other as part of a live performance. The work accompanies Jay-Z's track of the same name, widely viewed as an apology to his wife, Beyoncé for his infidelity and emotional failures as a husband. A collaboration between Arthur Jafa, Malik Sayeed, and Baltimore-based Elissa Blount Moorhead, the video uses cinematography, choreography, and found footage to explore complex and constricted notions of masculinity in an insightful and moving tapestry of Black love and life.

ActorAge thenAge now
Storyboard P

Storyboard P

Dancer

Birthday: -

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Okwui Okpokwasili

Okwui Okpokwasili

Dancer

Birthday: August 6, 1972

4453
Beyoncé

Beyoncé

Self (archive footage)

Birthday: September 4, 1981

3544
Jay-Z

Jay-Z

Self (archive footage)

Birthday: December 4, 1969

4755