Which Beyoncé song features Jay-Z and opens with a prominent horn riff?

“Crazy in Love” is the Beyoncé song featuring Jay-Z that opens with its instantly recognizable horn riff.

Released in 2003, the song served as the lead single from Beyoncé’s debut solo album, Dangerously in Love. Its production was led by Rich Harrison, who built the track around a sample of the Chi-Lites’ 1970 song “Are You My Woman (Tell Me So).” The brass-heavy opening became one of the song’s defining musical signatures.

Jay-Z contributes a rap verse and appears as a featured artist. The song describes the overwhelming feeling of falling deeply in love, while its energetic arrangement blends contemporary R&B, pop, hip-hop, and funk influences. It reached number one in the United States and the United Kingdom.

A frequent mix-up is “Drunk in Love,” another Beyoncé and Jay-Z collaboration released more than a decade later. “Crazy in Love” belongs to Beyoncé’s first solo album and was her first solo U.S. number-one single.