Beyoncé has reportedly given permission to the vice-president turned presumptive presidential nominee, Kamala Harris, to use her song Freedom throughout her campaign.
According to CNN, Harris’s team got last-minute approval from the singer just hours before she walked out to the song at her campaign headquarters on Monday.
Freedom is a song taken from Beyoncé’s acclaimed 2016 album Lemonade and features Kendrick Lamar. It became an unofficial anthem of the 2020 George Floyd protests with a 625% rise in streams at the time.
The star’s team has apparently now given her permission to use the song throughout the campaign.
While Beyoncé has not made any official endorsement since Joe Biden stepped down at the weekend, she endorsed the Biden-Harris ticket in 2020. The star posted a video on Instagram wearing a mask with their names accompanied by the caption: “Come thru, Texas! #VOTE.”
The singer’s mother, Tina Knowles, did post a picture of herself with Harris on Instagram on Monday with a caption endorsing her as a candidate. “Go Vice President Kamala Harris for President. Let’s Go,” she wrote.
