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Long live the Lion Queen: Beyonce delights with new album

US singer/songwriter Beyonce -- seen here at the world premiere of Disney's "The Lion King" in Hollywood -- has dropped a new album she calls a "love letter" to Africa

The Bey Hive was feeling the love Friday over Beyonce's release of the album "The Lion King: The Gift," which the pop queen dropped as a sister piece to her new film, a remake of the Disney classic.

Beyonce dubbed the 27-track album she curated and produced "a love letter to Africa," enlisting several African artists as well as a host of stars including her husband Jay-Z, Kendrick Lamar, her co-star Donald Glover (who also performs as Childish Gambino) and Pharrell Williams -- along with none other than Jay and Bey's seven-year-old daughter Blue Ivy Carter -- as collaborators.

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