Beyonce Releases "The Lion King: The Gift" Complete Album

Queen Bee’s The Gift album is finally here! Beyonce released the long-awaited “The Lion King: The Gift” album with its 14 tracks featuring African stars. The album is inspired by Disney’s new version of the classic film Lion King which is already out in cinemas.

It featured contributions from a star cast of collaborators like JAY-Z, Blue Ivy Carter, Kendrick Lamar, Childish Gambino, Pharrell, Tierra Whack, 070 Shake, Major Lazer and others. The album also features African artistes like Wizkid, Burna Boy, Mr Eazi, Shatta Wale, Tekno, Yemi Alade and others.

Meanwhile, the album lists DJ Khaled as a producer on “MOOD 4 EVA”, a collaboration between Beyoncé, JAY-Z and Childish Gambino. It also gives JAY-Z credit as a co-writer on the Blue Ivy-featuring song, “BROWN SKIN GIRL.”

Beyonce referred to the album as a love letter to Africa.

“This soundtrack is a love letter to Africa, and I wanted to make sure we found the best talent from Africa, and not just use some sounds and did my interpretation of it,” Beyonce Knowles-Carter told ABC News.

“I wanted it to be authentic to what is beautiful about the music in Africa.”

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The opening track is the voice of Mufasa (James Earl Jones) mixed with an African melody.

The album is full of dialogue from the film, as interludes. They are featured on the album with lower cases. On the other hand, the full songs are written with uppercase letters.