Rhiannon Giddens on collaborating with Beyoncé on 'Cowboy Carter' 

Ugh Rhiannon summed this up perfectly! “everyone can do what they want to do, no one is asking who gave Lana del Ray permission to write a country album. Everyone gets to write about their truth and go back to their roots. If you want to make a country album, make a country album. People say that’s not country, well that’s just racism.” PERIOD, IT IS! Literally even tho America is not actually “segregated,” we are. We literally have people gatekeeping musical genres that was not even created people who looked like in the first place, that’s is CRAZY! When she broke down about people dancing to the banjo after knowing about the roots and history of where it came from BROKE ME!!! That is truly moving. Country music is black music too. It’s for everyone❤️😭

Rhiannon Giddens is also a national treasure. In addition to her solo work, check out the Carolina Chocolate Drops.

I’m glad Beyoncé is shaking the country music industry. Enough of this ugly racism. It was and still is one of the darkest times of this country 😢😢😢

awww seeing Rhiannon get emotional has me tearing up. she played the h3ll out of that banjo!! definitely want to hear more from her ❤

Its because they're threatened by her they know how good she is, she has a number #1 country song already. She isnt going anywhere, the Hate just motivates her more.

I hope she never apologizes for caring so deeply about something, her fears are warranted and she deserves her flowers for being courageous enough to go into spaces where she wasn't welcomed and continue to fight...thank you Rhiannon your work is important

Wonderful interview! Rhiannon Giddens should be very proud of her work. She's breaking down barriers.

Omg! That ending section had me crying! 😢❤

Rhiannon, you are a national treasure and I'm so grateful Bey highlighted your talent and work in this new album. I got emotional watching this. I've been Bey's fan since the Destiny's Child days and I've never been a country music lover, but cowboy carter has had me researching American music history and downloading albums from artists like Rhiannon Giddens, Tanner Adell, Brittney Spencer, Tiara Kennedy & Reyna Roberts, which has been the most beautiful experience. Loved this interview!! ❤

Soooooo happy Rhiannon Giddens is being spotlighted in the mainstream. People are in for a treat! Her work with the New Basement Tapes is absolutely amazing too if you want to hear more from Rhiannon. And she has so much more! 😊😊😊

I am up in the a.m. listening and absorbing Beyonce's, "act ii Cowboy Carter" album and it's giving more than Country, she may have just introduced a new genre.👑💯 !

"That's just racism!" You tell 'em, Rhiannon Giddens! She has such a passion for music that runs in the veins of her ancestors! This is our roots, too, and we were conditioned NOT to like it. Singers like Johnny Nash had a hard timeBut they could like Black music and pick up our lingo, but not give us credit to boot! Call the pot black and get back! haha...Reminds me of the poem we'd say as children."If you're brown, stick around. If you're black, get black, red, enough said ... I had the opportunity to watch Rhiannon Giddens some ten years back as she performed for Oakland youth musicians. They LOVED her, and so did I! She's an amazing music historian. Brilliant woman and very, very talented! Thanks, ABC News!

Thank you for this piece. Rhiannon is amazing and I've been lucky to have seen and heard her twice live: Ojai and in Los Angeles at Disney Hall. She is a genius, an educator, a musician! I have all her albums and listen to her often. I've watched may of her RU-vid videos. Music belongs to everyone! Stop the madness about country music. White folks need to get real and understand that Black folk/African folk have been here and will continue to create. I'm do sown with Rhiannon and Beyonce Y'all do your thing! God bless and peace.

Support our black country artists 🤠 ❤. I’m here for it.

I felt like crying too. Happy for this Album and Happy for Rhiannon Giddens playing the Banjo!! Just Awesome!!!❤

The Dukes of Hazard star drove around in a car with a confederate flag on it so of course he’d say something racist.

I absolutely ADORE Rhiannon Giddens, and also adore the Carolina Chocolate Drops!

Rhiannon, as always, keeping it real, naming what it IS, and schooling folks. She is brilliant and I am SOOO grateful that Beyoncé has elevated what Rhiannon has been doing for YEARS into a mass audience. I got to see Rhiannon perform at the Bijou in Knoxville several years ago. Mind. BLOWN.

Blacks Folks....We started it all..Cmon People

This was beautiful and I am so honored to know that is you on the banjo! Wow! Queen B struck again and shed light on more black women talent. This album is a gift from Beyoncé to black women and America.

An honor to see my old professor in this video! Came here for Rhiannon Giddens, this was a pleasant surprise.

This album has ripped open the genre continuum. Rhiannon Giddens not only plays this clawhammer banjo she is also a trained opera singer and has composed an opera called Omar. Meanwhile, Beyoncé sings an opera singer classic Cari mío ben on the song Daughters. So we have country, Caribbean, opera, pop all colliding here. And it’s speaking to people. Congratulations Rhiannon and Beyoncé!

Rhiannon Giddens segment starts at 4:30

When you use your power and position the right way. . . Beyoncé 🙌🏾🙌🏾🙌🏾

Créole culture is still here too. I am so happy we can celebrate and find history too!!!

I praise Beyonce for being her 🙌 everyone who doesn't see that can kick rocks 💯

Wow Giddens is magical

Been loving Rhiannon for so long!!! Keep it up ... we love you!! ❤❤❤

This is one of my fav albums. It's like she wrote about my life. Definitely touch my heart.

God Bless Rhiannon Giddens for laying down the current path for us to return !

It’s because they can’t brush her aside like they’ve done other black female country artists…she’s already well known. They have to deal with her. They can’t throw her crumbs here and there like Mickey Guyton, others.

THIS is what happens when we walk out God’s Will for us in spite of fear or pushback. Beyoncé reclaiming the music of her community is powerful and gives permission for millions to do the same. Art impacts far beyond its original scope. Cowboy Carter is a Revolutionary Revelation. A gem like Rhiannon being a part of it adds to the many layers of depth that make up the album. Beyoncé and Rhiannon invite us to come back home; and I am happy to oblige✊🏽✨

She killed that banjo! It’s so beautiful to hear!

it’s not a country album it’s a BEYONCÉ album

This was very enlightening❤️🎼

Beautiful ❤

Rhiannon is fabulous

bless her heart ❤

Thanks for sharing this information ❤

Yeah I like how he cleans up his message

Great piece. Thank you.

Coded terms ( Dog whistling) YES, they tried to tell Beyoncé that she ain’t COUNTRY enough! She have to let know I am country! Album of the year is coming.

This was beautiful ❤❤

I love the history of this music and who are the originators of the banjo bravo to Rihanna and her amazing music 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼

Beautiful work ❤

Incredible interview! What a lovely, talented lady!❤❤❤

COWBOY CARTER IS AN AMAZING ALBUM!!! I LOVE IT!!! ❤❤❤ PLEASE LISTEN TO IT, IF YOU HAVEN'T ALREADY.

Great spokesperson for the genre. #RhiannonGiddens

Beautiful reporting!

I adore Rhiannon Giddens, I especially love when she’s teaching us history

Absolutely wonderful 💎

Rhiannon, thank you for being a beautiful, loving musician and the history of the banjo!😊❤

Rhiannon Giddens is amazing. Thank you Beyonce for introducing me to this legend.

Love beyonce country album

I've loved Rhiannon Giddons and her music since her days with The Carolina Chocolate Drops.

So good and so enlightening

The nerve of anyone who tries to put a color or ownership a genra a 🎶 🎵 music. No one is the BOSS of Beyonce but herself. What u resist will persist. Her haters will be her motivators. Thnx for so close attention to someone u don't like 😅. 😅😅.

Funny thing when you listen to what the young people listen to it’s all over the place,country,hip hop classic rock even vintage Motown !

This gives me so much joy.

Wi likkle but wi tallawah (this should really be the motto), big up the Jamaican ancestors for the Banjo 🇯🇲. Thanks for the new piece of info, Rhiannon

This is so impactful.

Texas is a melting pot. As a Hispanic with Mexican parents, there’s lots of genres in Mexican music that are very similar to American country. I would say that both fed off each other and influenced each other. However, American artists and attitudes make it seem like they’re the only ones doing anything worth listening to or worth crediting. Is the new Beyonce record may get new audiences to be interested in the samples they used in production and start to appreciate the older music. Similar to how hip hop uses samples and people go off an listen to the original music.

It always amazes me after colonizing something people want to keep the originators away.

This is another killers of the flower moon moment.

I felt more country when I lived in Houston than my home town of Waco, Tx! Country is my true roots. My parents introduced me to Charlie Pride, and of course, the queen Dolly Parton. My siblings and I had The Devil Went Down to Georgia MEMORIZED!! #BlackandCountry

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Oberlin College does it again...for the people.

She made me tear up! It’s sad when you need to ask permission to do done thing you love & already in your roots ❤

She brings tears to my ears, a silent assassin. Keep it moving Beyonce.

Excellent story!❤❤

❤❤ LOVE THIS 💘

I love her passion for music, especially her passion for the banjo and who plays it. she is an Amazing lady (before Beyonce and after) I'm glad to know of her.

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Heartlight!!!🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰🥰

Come together…right now over music 🎶 and knowledge

She was a genius using Texas Instruments lol

🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽🙌🏽‼️❤️

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No one has to explain it... great job!!! ❤🎉

Country music was always ours . Music is our “Mark” in our country- period

The song "Just for fun" is absolutely beautiful. I've listened about 10 times. Blackbird is also very nice My opinion. Cowboy Carter is not country but has country elements I have listened to the album. I like about 5 songs. She has a right to explore what ever strikes her fancy as others have done. Linda Ronsradt Queen. David Bowie (Fame) etc

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Love Beyonce , love Rihannon, over The lies that we need permission! Kick down doors! Go get em!

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If Eminem can rap become the best rap artist, then Beyoncé can sing country music and be the best country singer, it's about giving people a chance and opening doors that are always gate kept

Tracy Chapman was the first Black woman with a number one country song . And it was a record released in 1988! It was too sacred a music moment to ignore. a big month for country music. Yall know Tracy didn't do it for that, but she still deserves her credit. Please issue a correction. 3:02

No different then when Taylor sings country with a pop twing! I think the its more about her previous album that was very pro Black Lives Matter to now HOWDY DO!!!

Her album isn't classic country, but then again the same can be said about 80s country compared to 50s. This record is an evolution of the past mixed with modern style, making it sound somewhat fresh. Personally, may not be my favorite country songs, but I admire the originality. I also understand that people can't see past what appears to be an infiltration or non-genuine expression of art just because she is traditionally a pop artist, but that is their problem.

@8:30 @8:33 I have been saying this for some years now.... That using live instruments and having that instrumental connection when you're producing music, enables you to make heartfelt rhythms and songs that are classic and relatable, unlike todays mostly AI generated beats with low frequency that are passed off to the majority of today's hiphop and r&b, leaving us feeling disconnected and more depressed.. our 80s and 90s and ealier music made us feel stronger to fight and feel better about our circumstances, bc there was an actual spiritual connection to the instruments and the experience of making the music that was felt through our souls. For example, country and rock has produced tons of great music that you can hear through the powerful chords and vocals of alice in chains and pearl jam as well with Regina Belle, Stevie wonder, etc. That's why I feel the instruments and chorus and band was taken out of the urban schools bc music is therapy and healing but the powers that be have this agenda war on our youth and culture.

There were a lot of black people who didn't like it either and that's sad😢 I was so happy for her when I first heard it it's catchy to me❤

Oh Ma'am don't cry...and great job!

Beyonce is 🔥🔥🔥❤❤❤

Leave it to RG. In just a few words, in themselves unremarkable, she shines the light of truth on the entire country music industry. And turns it upside down.

TS must be shaking right now. 😂

Like many things in the USA that were stolen, taken over, and claimed by "others", country music is no different. Interestingly, I used to say I wanted to be the Black Shania Twain but gave up on the idea bc of how exclusive the genre is. I have written many country songs but put my notebook to the side due to this issue. I hope that the amazing Black country artists receive more recognition and appreciation for composing and performing music that they have been gifted to share with the world.🎉🎉🎉

Come back to Vicar Street Rhiannon!

There's Black women who really appreciate the artistry of country music...then theres gimmicky rich folks who copies folks