David Bowie released Black Star, announced there were more musical projects coming, and then died the next day.
In April, Prince announced his upcoming memoir, rode his bike around Minneapolis, had a huge party to which he invited everyone in town, and then died.
BeyoncĂŠ dropped Lemonade, a cinematic album, and catapulted South African-born Warsan Shire to fame with her devastating poetry. BeyoncĂŠ also performed her Katrinathemed, politically charged Formation at the Superbowl and turned several heads with her sharpened tone of politics and black culture.