Just days after wrapping up her Formation World Tour, Beyoncé debuted new sets, costumes, and routines for the Tidal X: 1015 concert in Brooklyn last night.

The Houston-bred singer performed with a hologram before going into "6 Inch" and "Haunted" with a crew of dancers. She came back at the end of the show to perform "All Night."

The concert was held in support of the Robin Hood Foundation, which calls itself “New York’s largest poverty-fighting organization.”

The United States may be on the verge of electing its first woman president, but for many of the country's poorest and most marginalized, things aren't getting better. In fact, across the south the fight to keep abortion safe and legal wages on.

The Lady Parts Justice League describes themselves as "a coven of hilarious badass feminists who use humor and pop culture to expose the haters fighting against reproductive justice." The women came together to create a hilarious and timely remix to Beyoncé's "Formation" that spotlights the ways draconian laws and regressive societal views lock women out of exercising their full reproductive rights.

Watch below.

Beyoncé spent the summer performing to sold out crowds on her Formation World tour. Along the way she made sure that her politics would not be overshadowed by her celebrity.

After the killings of Philando Castile and Alton Sterling in July, she stopped her show to pay tribute to victims of police violence and wrote an open letter championing the cause against police brutality.

But more than a year before the Formation video broke the internet, she foreshadowed their move away from the inoffensive and readily palatable.
At the Grammy’s in 2015, she performed the gospel classic “Take My Hand, Precious Lord” with a choir of Black men accompanying her. The men, dressed in all white, performed simple choreography that included a reference to “hands up, don’t shoot,” the rallying cry of angry protestors in the wake of Mike Brown’s killing in Ferguson, Missouri.



To clarify her intentions, Beyoncé released a a mini-documentary on the making of the performance. “I felt like this is an opportunity to show the strength and vulnerability in Black men,” she said. She went on to describe herself as a vessel for the past and continued suffering of Black people including her father who grew up in segregated Alabama. “Now I can sing for his pain,” she reflects. “I can sing for my grandparents pain. I can sing for some of the families that lost their sons.” Despite her best efforts and a shimmering, diaphanous gown, the performance was rather unspectacular, and Beyoncé’s invocation of the gesture got lost in the controversy surrounding her perceived sleight to another performer. But, perhaps, that was a good thing. Beyoncé dipped her toe into the waters of Black Lives Matter with nary a peep.

Beyoncé celebrated her 35th birthday with a Soul Train-themed birthday bash in New York City on Monday. Of course, her famous friends and family showed up to help her celebrate the occasion.

The party was a family affair. Beyoncé arrived in style with her daughter, Blue Ivy.

Beyoncé & Blue arrive at her Soul Train themed birthday party. pic.twitter.com/axq4YAHK5I

— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) September 6, 2016

Solange showed up with her son, Julez, and her husband, Alan. Solo channels the 70s in her streetwear often, so, of course, she nailed it.

In an orange chiffon top and hot pants, Beyoncé thanked the group for coming. Then Blue Ivy wished her mommy a happy birthday.

Blue wishing Beyoncé a happy birthday  💙 pic.twitter.com/Lstc4LfGYF

— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) September 6, 2016

Beyoncé and Blue cut a rug on the dance floor.

Beyoncé & Blue dancing to 'Work It Out' at her 35th birthday party 💙🎉 pic.twitter.com/naLdo6KAbV

— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) September 6, 2016

Alicia Keys and Swizz Beatz were there. Beatz DJed the event.

Chance the Rapper showed up to show love to his "TT."
Bey's protege's Chloe and Halle were in attendance.

Lala and Carmelo Anthony showed up.

Puffy went full Superfly with Cassie.


Kelly Rowland gave Donna Summer Realness.

Michelle Williams channeled Cher.

Usher nailed the theme with Jay Z gave us hints of Jimmy Hendrix.

Usher, Grace Miguel, Tim Witherspoon and Kelly Rowland.
Bey changed into a sequin jumpsuit during the party. That's when she really let loose.

Beyoncé & Jay Z dancing at her 35th birthday party 🎉 pic.twitter.com/zqw6nyXvp1

— BEYONCÉ LEGION (@Bey_Legion) September 6, 2016

Bey was born in 1981, but it's clear why she feels an affinity for the decade. Her first film role in 2002 was Foxxy Cleopatra in Austin Powers in Goldmember.  And her love for 70s rock queen Tina Turner has been well-documented.

Beyoncé's attendance at the BET Awards, or lack thereof, has become a bit of a meme in recent years. The shady narrative goes that Beyoncé is too big of a star to show up the network's biggest outing every year.

But Beyoncé certainly shut down all that talk with her incredible performance of "Freedom" that opened the show. With her cadre of dances, she sang and splashed across the stage. The song is liberation anthem and she brought along Kendrick Lamar to perform his verse with a few added lines.

Together they took the song to a new level.













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Ingrid Burley was one of the first signees to Beyoncé's record label Parkwood Entertainment. The Houston-bred rapper wrote one of Lemonade's more introspective tracks. But "Love Drought" isn't about Beyoncé's fraught emotions regarding a cheating husband.

Ingrid told Genius that she wrote the song out of frustration with the label. When she felt the label wasn't giving her opportunities, she wrote the song in about 30 minutes.


Listen to Ingrid's latest single.

While Michael Jackson is often credited at Beyoncé's biggest influence. It's no surprise that the global superstar feels a particular affinity for Prince. The two performed together at The Grammy Awards in 2004, and Beyoncé has long included music from the The Time, a group Prince assembled and wrote for, in her live shows (See: The Beyoncé Experience).

In Dallas on Monday, Beyoncé covered "The Beautiful Ones" during the Formation World Tour. The song appears on Purple Rain.  She first performed the cover in 2011 at the Glastonbury Festival in England, and this longer version was equally spectacular.


Watch the Glastonbury performance.

Beyoncé is trying something new. Or at least that's what it looks like.

A trailer for her new short film "Lemonade" debuted, and it features Beyoncé in varied New Orleans locales looking pretty angry.  She's even seen smashing a New Orleans Police Department camera with a bat.

"Lemonade" will premiere on HBO 4/23 at 9ET.

Watch the trailer below.