Beyonce unveils official trailer of visual album Black Is King

The much-awaited trailer of Black Is King has hit the internet. Beyonce's Black Is King marks the third visual album of the pop sensation after BEYONCE and Lemonade.

Washington: The official trailer for Beyonce's new visual album Black is King has dropped in.

Designed as a celebratory memoir of the Black experience and based on music from The Lion King: The Gift, Black is King will be premiered on July 31 on Disney Plus. In addition to dropping the trailer on Sunday (19 JULY), Parkwood and Disney Plus announced that Black is King will be available on much of the African continent.

The new visual album reimagines the lessons from The Lion King for "today's young kings and queens in search of their own crowns."

The trailer reveals that among the guest stars on the film include Beyonce's husband and rapper JAY-Z, Oscar winner Lupita Nyong'o, supermodel Naomi Campbell and recording artists Pharrell Williams and Kelly Rowland.

Beyonce revealed that Black is King is a passion project and that she had been "filming researching and editing day and night for the past year."

She told while it was originally filmed "to celebrate the breadth and beauty of Black ancestry," the film now serves a greater purpose.

"This is a story of how the people left MOST BROKEN have EXTRAORDINARY gifts," she said.

Besides sharing a glimpse of the video, Beyonce wrote: "This experience has been an affirmation of a grander purpose. My only goal is that you watch it with your family and that it gives you pride."

Black is King will be Beyonce's third visual album, following 2013's BEYONCE and 2016's Lemonade.

With inputs from APTN