Unreleased Beyoncé Music Stolen From Rental Car

Unreleased Beyoncé music was reportedly stolen from her choreographer and one of her dancers from their rental car, according to Variety.

Per an Atlanta Police Department report, the break-in occurred last Tuesday, 8 July, when the singer’s choreographer, Christopher Grant and dancer Diandre Blue returned to their rental car and found that the back window was damaged and both of their suitcases were stolen.

The reported robbery occurred 48 hours before Beyoncé took to the stage for her Cowboy Carter shows in Atlanta. Grant and Blue stated that the suitcases contained hard drives that held unreleased music, plans for Beyoncé’s live shows, and previous and upcoming setlists. They also said that clothes, laptops, a pair of AirPods Max headphones, and designer sunglasses had been stolen,

Police issued an arrest warrant for an unnamed suspect but didn’t reveal if the music had been recovered.

With the “Find My” function, laptops and AirPods were tracked, and police found fingerprints on the car, per Fox 5 Atlanta.

“Mr. Grant advised he was also carrying some personal sensitive information for the musician Beyoncé,” the incident report reads. “He advised that he was her choreographer and Mr. Diandre Blue was a dancer for her, and that her hard drives for her upcoming show in Atlanta were stolen also. The hard drives contained watermarked music, some unreleased music, footage plans for the show and past and future set lists.”

Beyoncé previously insisted that her latest effort “ain’t a Country album” but a “Beyoncé album,” adding that her aim for Cowboy Carter is to reach a point where “the mention of an artist’s race, as it relates to releasing genres of music, will be irrelevant.”

In a review of her Cowboy Carter show in Paris, Countrytown’s Stef Russin declared, “The costumes were akin to a high fashion show, the tour visuals were immaculate and featured highly stylised content interspersed with personal and political moments. The whole show was a 3-hour, non-stop theatrical thrill ride, not through the ‘old west,’ this was the ‘new west.’

“The star of the night really was Cowboy Carter in all its glory, and the songs that make up the genre-bending ode to country music. It was a world-class show, with world-class production by one of the biggest names in music today.”