Yass queens: Listen to Beyoncé and Madonna team up on ‘Break My Soul’ remix

Beyoncé’s not done remixing “Break My Soul” just yet.

Days after releasing a four-track EP of edits to her “Renaissance” single, Bey takes another turn under the disco ball with “The Queens Remix,” which features her fellow house-inspired pop luminary Madonna.

The track features Bey riffing on Madonna’s 1990 genre classic “Vogue.” In the original, Madonna reeled off a list of classic Hollywood actors — “Greta Garbo and Monroe / Dietrich and DiMaggio / Marlon Brando, Jimmy Dean / On the cover of a magazine” — while evoking New York’s ballroom and drag scene, lifting elements of those formative subcultures onto the pop charts.

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Beyoncé had already pulled from Robin S. and Big Freedia on “Break My Soul,” but here she weaves her own hooks into the “Vogue” format. She cites a long list of her own influences — “Queen Mother Madonna, Aaliyah, Rosetta Tharpe, Santigold, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Betty Davis, Solange Knowles, Badu this, so Kelly Rowl ...” — and a few of the formative New York drag houses like House of LaBeija and House of Revlon.

This isn’t the first time Beyoncé has popped up in the extended Madonna universe; she cameoed in the video for 2015’s “Bitch I’m Madonna.” But it is the first time these two towering figures of pop have appeared on a track together.