{"id":16651,"date":"2016-07-09T16:27:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-09T20:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=16651"},"modified":"2016-07-09T09:45:16","modified_gmt":"2016-07-09T13:45:16","slug":"watch-beyonce-perform-a-cappella-version-of-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=16651","title":{"rendered":"WATCH Beyonce Perform A cappella Version of &#8220;Freedom&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-16652 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/bey_250_freedom_ohsodj.jpeg?resize=250%2C247\" alt=\"Beyonce &quot;Freedom&quot;\" width=\"250\" height=\"247\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In the wake of the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Beyonc\u00e9 revised the performance of her concert in Glasgow Thursday night (July 7) to include a tribute to the victims of police brutality.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Alton Sterling and Philando Castile were just two of the hundreds of names projected across Beyonc\u00e9\u2019s stage. The audience held up their phones in remembrance. Bey then launched into a raw, passionate a cappella version of her hit \u201cFreedom,\u201d which she recently sang at the BET Awards with Kendrick Lamar.<\/p>\n<p>This powerful tribute comes just hours after she shared an equally powerful letter on her website, which calls on police to \u201cstop killing us\u201d and asks fans to contact their local legislators to make their voices heard.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.beyonce.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Check out her powerful statement HERE.<\/a><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">FULL VIDEO: Beyonc\u00e9 performs <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/Freedom?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#Freedom<\/a> acapella in honor of victims of police brutality \u270a  <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/70ERE0OiqT\">https:\/\/t.co\/70ERE0OiqT<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; BEYONC\u00c9 LEGION \ud801\ude81 (@BeyLegion) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/BeyLegion\/status\/751181915605110784?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">July 7, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/beyoncealways\/status\/751182537544835073<\/p>\n<p><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>In the wake of the fatal shootings of Alton Sterling and Philando Castile, Beyonc\u00e9 revised the performance of her concert in Glasgow Thursday night (July 7) to include a tribute to the victims of police <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/?p=16651\" title=\"WATCH Beyonce Perform A cappella Version of &#8220;Freedom&#8221;\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":16653,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[7],"tags":[146,807],"class_list":["post-16651","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","tag-beyonce","tag-matrix"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7qLKy-4kz","jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.ohsodj.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/beyonce_full_ohsodj.jpeg?fit=451%2C258&ssl=1","post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=16651"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16654,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16651\/revisions\/16654"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/16653"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16651"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16651"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ohsodj.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16651"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}