The 2020 Beyoncé visual album accompanying The Lion King: The Gift was Black Is King.
Black Is King was written, directed, and executive-produced by Beyoncé. Disney+ released it on July 31, 2020, roughly one year after The Lion King: The Gift, her companion album to the 2019 film The Lion King.
The visual album uses music from The Lion King: The Gift while presenting a series of connected performances, fashion sequences, family scenes, and symbolic images centered on Black identity, ancestry, and global African culture. It includes appearances by artists such as Jay-Z, Blue Ivy Carter, Lupita Nyong’o, and many collaborators from the companion album.
Black Is King is not the same project as Lemonade, Beyoncé’s 2016 visual album. It is also different from Homecoming, the 2019 documentary about her 2018 Coachella performances.