KnockturnaLIST: The Music Videos of 2017 that We Loved

Jay-Z – Moonlight

Album: 4:44 (2017)
Director: Alan Yang

HOV’s take on Friends, with an all-black cast, is just the surface of his video for “Moonlight.” The set is the same, the clothes are the same, and the shots are the same. Jerrod Carmichael, Issa Rae, Tiffany Haddish, Lakeith Stanfield, Lil Rel, and Tessa Thompson parody the Friends cast. Master of None’s Alan Yang took on the directorship for the video, which sheds light (or shade?) on the mis-announcement of La La Land as Best Picture when Moonlight really won: “Even when we win, we gon’ lose.”