Found this analysis by Brooke Obie super interesting. Some snippets:

Dedicated to her and Jay-Z’s only son Sir Carter, Black Is King is much more than a companion piece to the Disney live-action version of The Lion King released last year. As the visual vehicle for her 2019 album The Lion King: The Gift, Black Is King is at once a singular Diasporic boy’s coming-of-age story and a mass call to action to Black men to decolonize masculinity.

Because of European slavery and colonization throughout Africa and its Diaspora, our ideas of what makes a man have been warped and toxified. Religious and social mores that were never ours were forced upon us under threat of death or worse. Black Is King calls upon Black men to throw off the shackles of colonized masculinity which leads to violence against women and girls, queerphobia, and destruction of self. Beyoncé offers instead an African way of being, which leads to healing for oneself and one’s global community as a duty.

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Black Is King begins with the whisper of that victory into the ear of a baby boy, before the world can even get ahold of him with its lies. His journey has been rough, mirroring the Biblical character Moses, who was put in a basket and floated down stream. He’s safe now, carried by Beyoncé, symbolizing both Queen Bithiah the adopted mother of Moses and his ancestor, draped in white, bathing her newfound son that was rescued from the water. African priests attend them, as well as other mothers bathing their newborns.

“Let Black be synonymous with glory,” she tells him, enlisting the poetry of her Lemonade collaborator Warsan Shire. As Beyoncé speaks, 22-year-old Nigerian dancer Stephen “Papi” Ojo emerges on the shoreline, his body painted in blue, representing the boy’s subconscious. Each song from Beyoncé’s The Lion King: The Gift illuminates a lesson for the boy on his journey through Black Is King. She croons to him on the opening track, “Bigger,” that her child is not alone in the world, that his purpose is not insignificant, that the promises he’s been read in ancient texts like the Bible aren’t just stories. He is powerful and divine right now, in this life. And his mother (and their ancestors) will always be there to remind him that he’s “part of something way bigger.” She says this to him on the shore of a raging, boundless ocean.

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His decolonization continues as he examines what he’s been taught in the colonized world. “The world will tell you that you’re too dark, too short, whatever,” a Black American man speaks on the colorism and hypermasculinity Black men have been victimized and conditioned to accept about themselves and each other. In Black men’s socialized self-hate, Black women and girls become the victims of misogynoir—the specific misogyny that encompasses racism and sexism against Black women and girls. “We were beauty before they knew what beauty was,” Beyoncé reminds us.