Beyoncé and Drake are making this the summer of house music — and we are here for it

nypost.com:

“Break My Soul.”The vibration-lifting first single from Bey’s upcoming seventh studio album, “Renaissance” (out July 29), is a foundation-shaking move that is giving house music — long the sound of the underground — a home in the mainstream.

And just a few days before “Break My Soul” broke the internet, Drake released “Honestly, Nevermind,” an album that finds the “Way 2 Sexy” superstar twirling from hip-hop to house with the dance bona fides of South African beatmaster Black Coffee.In the flash of a disco ball, two of music’s heaviest hitters double-declared that this was the summer of house.

And as a longtime house head, I am all the way here for it.The euphoric energy and cathartic release — both spirited and spiritual — of house music is exactly what a world of broken-down souls needs right now.

After spending most of the last two-plus years stuck dancing around our own houses — or in NYC, one-bedroom apartments — it’s time to make like Technotronic and pump up the jam once again.And while some haters have been dragging Beyoncé and Drake for showing their love for house — as if they were infiltrating some secret club that even A-listers like them can’t get into — it’s the ultimate co-sign for a genre that, much like disco before it, has been kicked to the basement over the years.Bey and Drizzy — who you can be sure are fans and students of music as much as they are bankable hitmakers — are both tapping into the black roots of house.