BEYONCE COVERS ESSENCE MAGAZINE
Wednesday, August 2, 2006

Beyonce will be on the September cover of Essence magazine. MTV.com was able to give a sneak peak of the article and the pictures featured in this issue:
When it came time to record B’Day, Beyoncé was inspired by the creative approach that Jay-Z and his Roc-A-Fella artists take, the singer told Essence in the magazine’s September cover story.”They usually have a bunch of producers in the studio at one time in different rooms,” she explained. “They get this positive competitive energy going.” When it came time to lay down her own tracks, Beyoncé followed Jay’s lead. “I rented the studio and had different producers in three different rooms. It was so much fun and no pressure.” And Jay and B didn’t worry that the stress of working together on “Deja Vu” would impact their relationship — because the rapper’s part on the track was never planned. “But once he heard it, I saw his lips start moving,” Beyoncé told the magazine. “So I was like, ‘Would you like to go into the studio and record what you just did?’ Now we joke about how we’re going to have enough songs to put out a little compilation record.”
To see more pictures, visit MTV.com








233 Comments
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151.
Hydr0
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
im still gaga over these pics…she looks flawless…
fuc* all that negative shit…Mama can murk any photo opp..Boring my ass. The media loves Bee..she will sale a magazine and looks ovah on a cover.. get ova it uglies.
152.
Ione
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
She takes good pictures, I guess I can appreciate them in an artistic kind of way.
153.
Bambi
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
# Yasheica Lee said:
Beyonce is a star so ya’ll going to have to get use to seeing her because she is going to be around for a long time. She will be getting a BET Lifetime Achievement Award one day.
I believe it b/c people now in days are giving anybody awards! Undeserved fame! Beyonce looks nice in these pics but she, again, is overrated! She’s very pretty here but something about her face and body that really doesn’t look the same to me. She fell off compared to how she used to look. She’s far from amazing.
154.
Bambi
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
It’s amazing how fans take things so personal when people are feeling a particular entertainer such as Beyonce or Ciara or whoever wtf?!!!!!!!!!! We have what we can an opinion sometimes they are ok sometimes they aren’t. But these none singing bitches out here now and days will never get my money for buying a cd. Beyonce sounds ok and I never bought her cd and don’t plan on buying the new one. As a matter of fact the last cd I bought was Letoya! That was the first R&B cd I’ve purchased in a long time…..R&B is not the same anymore but Letoya did an excellent job on her cd! Before than Fantasia I had to buy hers and before that Anthony Hamilton. Now I don’t even listen to the radio anymore b/c R&B is dead in my eyes!
155.
MMM HMMM
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
I think some people just have to put that negative energy out there. Clearly, if you’re not interested in her and think she’s boring you wouldn’t read any posts on her. Beyonce hasn’t been on any magazine covers in months. Of course she is going to be on more covers for September because her CD is coming out then. She will be on a lot of them in December too for Dreamgirls. It’s like this. I don’t care for certain artist, but I just don’t read about them or look at any blogs that make comments about them. The same thing applies here. I can’t understand for the life of me why people want to tear this girl down. She puts her heart into everything she does and some of you just continue to give her flack for that. If you don’t like her, don’t buy the CD, don’t buy the magazine, don’t read about her, don’t give her any attention. She is not going anywhere so get used to her. PEACE!!!
156.
WonderLove
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
OK, she’s pretty and all, yeah…but why not give the cover to another star, like Amel Larreaux? Dang! I like Bey and all, but it’s time for something different. I can’t wait until she is a fact in VH 1’s “Pop Up Video”…and yes, I know Bey is on the cover so that Essence can get high sales…
157.
niaja101
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
DANG EVERY-SINGLE-DAY wow cl has more bey then her own website anyways yea she looks pretty liek usual hmmm good look essence
158.
MiNDURz!
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
i think she looks good in these pics tho a big step up from a couple of othere posts i’ve seen her look like but 0mg some of yall on here trippin’ like we all hatin on Be’! We all not! some of us just get tired of coming here EVERYDAY and seeing @ least two new posts about bey’s new album cover shots, or her new house of deron ads, or somewhere she was or something she was wearin or some her daddy said!! oooommmmggg!! give it a rest i know i still love me some bey’ but dang somebody else jump in tha limelight for a minute i’m beggin!! And excuse me but we(meaning everybody on here) make these posts that’s what they’re here for to voice our opinions not to agree w/eveyone else’s idea of “What is is” or “What it’s gon’ be so get used to it!” or w/e WTF?
159.
BFAN
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
EXPECT HER TO BE EVERYWHERE THIS YEAR HOES AND HATERS SHE IS BACK!!!!!!!!
160.
MiNDURz!
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
@#159 when did she leave?
161.
Carlette S
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
Beyonce is not the SHIZNIT. She has limited vocal ability. That is one commercialized broad. Good stage presence. Grown version of Joan Benet Ramsey.
I’ve been reading these posts and I keep coming across people saying phrases like ” hottest chick in the game” ” best chick out there” name somebody out there that hotter than her. I start here Mariah Carey
somebody that was making hits when she was reheasring in her back yard. Alicia Keys multitalented songwriter and poet. I can’t wait to see how this Bday foolishness is going to turn out.
162.
THE REAL BAMBI
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
#153&154 go swag somebody eles damn name. anyways i proud of my black people. make that paper because i hope to be just as successful someday and if she got it like that she just got it like that. dont hate the player hate the game.
163.
THE REAL BAMBI
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
but that shit she did to latoya wasnt right and wasnt called for.
164.
MzNikki
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
@ 160… never… hence all the talk about overexposure!
And to all ya’ll so hard on this chile’s singing skills, fall back! Christina Aguliera, Heather Headley, Corrine Bailley Raye, Gaelle, Jill Scott and Amel Larrieux can sang rings of fuckin’ fire aroun’ this girl, but you won’t hear most of them on the radio until SWSNBN falls off!
It’s really simple: she’s light enough for YT’s to feel comfortable lustin’ after her, since most of them lust after our features so damned hard. SWSNBN is nothing more than a marketing campaign gone astray, so unfortunately, she’s gon be here for a hot minute!
165.
mimi
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
She sure can get that press can’t she?
166.
MzNikki
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
and I forgot to mention MiMi, and the good lawd knows he would make me go cut my own switch if I didn’t add Nippy to the list of fyah singers!
Ya’ll need to understand that while SWSNBN is talented, she is also being marketed to death, which can and often does, lead to backlash when time comes to count up the record sales. I understand that some of ya’ll can’t stand this chile, so speak with your pocketbooks and refuse to purchase anything with her face on it!
Oh and just so that ya’ll know, this is just the beginning… we ain’t even got to the album release yet and then there’s Dreamgirls??? Oh HELLLLLL no! We are stuck on the B Train until at LEAST March of next year! Good luck and G-D bless!
167.
Kev
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
I like Beyonce but shes overrated.., is that House of Dereon dress? lol for some reason Tina Knowles just jock High Fashion Designers.
PS:for those people arquing wether she support the g community, she dont , she stated that she dont support that lifestyle, if only the gay community know.shes really ungrateful..
Beyonce’s voice is not even good, shaking sound is good?, when i saw her live, she makes emotional expression in her face to make up for her voice because she doesnt produce emotion with her voice!.but i still buy her shit for club bangers.
168.
Brian
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
stunning, as awlays.
169.
Cheryl
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
she got a nice nose job.
170.
Dave
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
her single is not doing good, her second single’s video is already recorded. wow deja vu is not even a month old yet she decided to shoot another video. well hopefully its a good video.
171.
ItsOfficialImTiredofBee
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
It’s official B is still beautiful, but I find her so “ho hum” now. Im gonna listen to her album so I hope it makes up for her lack of personality.
172.
chrystal
Wednesday, August 2, 2006 /
CAUSE SHE`S EVERYWHERE EVERYWHERE TO ME..I LOVE IT BEYONCE IS BACK..DEAL WIT IT MUTHAFUCKASSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS..LMAO
173.
♥Michie♥
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Yeah, Dave, DeJaVu is not doing well, so y’all can expect to see a lot more of her as she tries to remedy the situation. And, I love Jay, but they are not Peaches and Herb….How many collabos are they gonna do before they say, “They all sound the same….”?
174.
Shady1
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
I don’t get sick of Beyonce or any artist because I don’t spend most of my time wondering what’s goiung on in entertainment. Get a life. Getting sick of an artist just means you’re waisting your time on the wrong thing.
175.
MiNDURz!
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
@#164 i know that thanks! not too start up no more shii an stupid internet beef on here then they’re already be between people but hun…i was bein sarcastic!!
176.
MiNDURz!
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
but #174 you’re on this post aren’t you you might not get sick of an artist but i @ least consider this the “entertainment” you call yaself not getting into. Dang now i’m soundin’ a fool cause i’m goin back on my own “stupid internet beef” words! LMA0!
177.
Hydr0
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
how is Deja Vu not doing well? its #4 on the hot 100… #2 on TRL. was #1 on direct effect, #2on iTunes.. and #1 on yahoolaunch… its a hit reacored and deja vu is not done yet!!!
178.
Hydr0
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
@Dave..
stop saysing things you dont know.. before Deja Vu was released Bee said she would have two singles out.. the same thing they did with Lose My Breath and Soldier.. She will have two recoreds out before her album is released
Excepet this time, we wont have Ring The Alarm as a single until AFTER the video premier on 8/14
179.
Dré
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Yeah she’s pretty gotta give her that but I know everyone went to school with someone that looks like her. Her look is not unique. She’s the light skinned girl from school that all the guys wanted to fuck and all the girls wanted to be like or hated.
@Hydr0 sweetie u r beautiful too, high school is over, let it go, I know she never thanked you but its time to move on. Beyonce jus reminds u of her, but she is not her, ok.
God Bless
180.
geronimo
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Bee is looking flawless, I love that pic of her in colour! I love all this promo for the new era. If any of you love Deja Vu then make sure to join the official Deja Vu download day on Saturday August 5th!
181.
Marcus
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
She’s #4 because Digital Single sales are now included in thye Hot 100 chart. And you “Stans” keep buying B’Day over and over.
If you look at airplay. It’s a different story. The payola scam that Sony Music employs will only work so far.
It’s slowing dropping after it’s mass saturation.
Urban: Dropped 1 spot.
http://www.radioandrecord...ts/Charts/Urban_Chart.asp
Rhythmic: Dropped 4 spots.
http://www.radioandrecord...mats/Charts/Rhy_Chart.asp
Pop: Dropped 7 Spots.
http://www.radioandrecord...mats/Charts/Pop_Chart.asp
I hope you know airplay counts with determining a Hot 100 chart. And the way she is losing spins shows that her chart life for Deja Vu will be short lived.
I also don’t forsee her selling over 400,00 copies of B’Day 1st week.
182.
Ralph
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Got damn beyonce fine as HELL. That’s a Dimepiece right there.
183.
goaway
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Next stop VOGUE! Yeah haters thats right! Beyonce will be on the cover of VOGUE in the winter. So if your’re sick of her you better leave the country. It’s the takeover!!! HA HA HA I love it. It’s eating the haters inside to see the girl keep thriving and doing her.
184.
Nelly2
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
she is fucking flawless i dont care what no one has to say its nothing wrong with her she is perfect im tryna sit her and find something bad and its impossible
185.
pretteyeyez
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
B is pretty but she cannot, I repeat cannot sing. She’s a good entertainer but not a singer. Vocally, Alicia Keys, Tamia, Monica, Brandy and Whitney (before crack took her voice) to name a few, can blow her away vocally. But she’s a beautiful woman.
186.
Marcus
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
HA HA HA I love it. It’s eating the haters inside to see the girl keep thriving and doing her.
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Why would Beyonce being famous eat me up inside?
That’s a real ridiculous comment.
Maybe you should go outside more instead of staying at home all day re-enacting the Crazy In Love video with the red pumps and coochie shorts you copped at Rainbow.
Seriously get a handle on reality. I could really care less if Beyonce is all over the place. I was just making a comment as I am entitled to on a message board.
187.
THE REAL BAMBI
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
i wonder if tina has any other race in her because little daniel can pass for a little white boy.( just wondering)
188.
Tashauna
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Please people QUIT she ia a regular person….she bleeds just like you and me.
189.
Nix
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
OVERKILL!!!
190.
Ne'
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
jlgfjsdiposiereje;jsdojejrkendindlnreineosmr
191.
Mr. Miagee
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Haha wait until they post the pics of the solange and the bring it on 3 release party. Haha those pics are really gonna have you LAUGHING!!!!!!
Solange = A mess.
192.
Londono83
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Damn Fuck beyonce. That stank ass hoe. Cant sell wet dope!
193.
romothe3
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
She releasing two albums this year. Her’s and the dreamgirl album. If she aint nominated for an oscar she definately gonna perform.
194.
applejack
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
NEXT!!!!!!!!!!
195.
rockit
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
All I can say is that baby girl doing the damn thing.
Can anyone else keep up?
Beyonce make em lose they breath.
196.
hotone
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Deja vu is number 4 single in the country. NUMBER 1 here we come.
197.
Stan=1
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Saturday, August 5,2006 has officially been deemed by Beyoncé fans from all over the world International Deja Vu Download Day!! What exactly does that mean? Well, continue reading this to find out! In your country, whenever August 5 is, be sure to visit your favorite online music merchant and download a legal copy of Beyonce’s latest single featuring Jay-Z - Deja Vu!! Online music merchants are websites like iTunes, Wal-Mart, Napster, Puretracks, and FYE! There are many more, but those are the most popular ones.
198.
Stan=1
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
THE PRIZE:
We are giving away 3 FREE copies of B’Day! If you are chosen as a winner, you will receive an e-mail from us letting you know how to redeem your prize. So between August 7 and August 8, be sure to check your e-mail, or check this website for the list of winners. You just might be one of 3 lucky fans who will receive a FREE copy of B’Day! You won’t actually get the prize until the album is released on September 5, 2006. But we have this contest set up so that you will receive your FREE copy on the official release-date!
199.
lonelygirl
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Beyonce cant do no wrong.
200.
help me
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
The stans come out @ night.
201.
Seme34
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
Beyonce gone be doing the “chicken noodle soup” in her new video.
202.
brian
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
she goes to this spa to bleach her skin http://www.worldofentertainment23.com
Im a man and im soooo sick of her ass also.
203.
tianni
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
I would not be surprised if she PULLS her ALBUM UP–so that it can come out BEFORE SEPTEMBER.
OH WOW a PIC where she is suppose to look SHOCKED with her mouth hanging WIDE OPEN! She needs to sit down!
Her face is OVER EXPOSED. it is starting to look PLAIN & DULL no matter how she makes it up. Simply because we are all so use to seeing her face all over the place, print ads, videos, movies, comercials, on CONCRETE LOOP all the time, It dont stop. I’m beginning to feel like the middle child named “JAN” —BEYONCE BEYONCE BEYONCE!
LOL!
204.
huh ???
Thursday, August 3, 2006 /
BOOOOOOOOOOOOO you are lame beyonce !!!!! nobodys hating either !!! you dont even know what deja vu is and you have the nerve to make song and video that has ABSOLUTELY NOTHING to do with it !!! yall wanna see a good video go to http://WWW.YOUTBE.COM and look up Layonce and GAY ZZZ ………..wayyyyyyyyyyyy better than her version of deja vu
205.
ohsosexykey
Friday, August 4, 2006 /
pretteyeyes, did you really say BRANDY can blow Beyonce vocally. Yea ok..maybe Beyonce is overexposed..but um..are u nuts??? Half the time Brandy sounds conjested and like a man. Name one song where she has had incredible range. Let’s all get it together now.
206.
CJ
Friday, August 4, 2006 /
SIMPLY GORGEOUS,FLAWLESS AND STUNNING. Y’ALL HATERS R REALLY STRUGGLING AND SEARCHING FOR FLAWS. SHE’S DEFINATELY A FORCE TO BE RECKON WITH. SHE CAN GET IT ANYTIME
207.
kuus
Friday, August 4, 2006 /
I really hv to ay, this girl is doin her thing well. no doubt. this time her weave looks much smooth than ever. well done.
208.
Plain&simple
Friday, August 4, 2006 /
@ 2nd b&w pic of Beyonce, “Oh my God! my lace has come undone”
209.
NE-HO FOR NE-YO
Friday, August 4, 2006 /
STANS BE GONE! IF YOU SO CONFIDENT DEJA VU IS A HIT, THEN WHY THE NEED TO D/L THE SHIT A BILLION TIMES TO MAKE IT NUMBER 1? CUS YOU KNOW ITS GONNA PLUMMET WITHOUT THE HELP OF STANS ON A MISSION. AND THIS IS COMING FROM A FAN, NOT STAN, DIFFERENT STORY. STANS HAVE A WAY OF MAKING FANS CRINGE AT BEYONCE POSTS. NEXT >>>
NEWAY!!!!!!!!!! BEYONCE LOOKS GOOD. THE SECOND PICTURE IS THE CUTEST.
210.
leekagyrl
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
we do need to let Bey do her own thing & stop critisizing her. This blog has the most posts about her. Maybe if we didn’t see any Beyonce posts for a while we could appreciate the lady.
211.
soulchild
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
144 just stop. please. but anyway, gon head beyonce. why do black people always hate on one another? fa real we dont need white folks to brings us down we do it to ourselves. i appreciate beyonce, she is a pheonominal woman. so haters, fall back. her red pumps is hot, just like letoya’s was in her she dont video.black folks cant stand to see one another be successful. it irks me. AND PEOPLE TALKIN BOUT YOU TIRED OF BEYONCE, WHY’D U CLICK ON THE BLOG? CONTRADICTORY STATEMENT.
212.
regio831
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
thats so cute Solange all grown up ( hopefully as the years go by she will look like older sis) i have seen the photos of B when she was young and she wasnt always that pretty.
213.
stinka
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
she looks great… i’ve been a fan of blond hair, i kinda’ wish she switch up her look a little.
214.
blue'sgal
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
U know what I cant really hate on Beyonce’, she has a banging shape,plenty of paper and is doing the damn thang.But she is a little over rated and frankly I am tired of seeing her on the front of every f#@*&ing magazine cover looking the same she needs to swich the game up a little( damn, let me find out somebody told her she looked good w/ the blonde hair & she is stuck on stupid).If Kelly and Michelle can change their look why cant she do the same, and little does she know I am the girl Shawn(Jay-Z) is talking about in “Song Cry”.
215.
Suga Buga
Saturday, August 5, 2006 /
Beyonce Beyonce Beyonce, is that all people talk about. She is pretty, but she is full of weave and makeup!!. When is she going to take the weave out and be natural, oh yeah, when hell freezes over!!
216.
doinitwell
Sunday, August 6, 2006 /
cute pics
she looks madd corny to me …. idk y but thats the vibe i get….that she is wack
but she loops pretty….
i like the last two
217.
Bambi
Monday, August 7, 2006 /
#205 Neither Brandy or Beyonce has incredible range! Now Christina A. and Fantasia that’s a different story. Fantasia screams but she does it str8 out of church. Beyonce tries to sing hard and strong and it sounds like she’s screaming. She can’t control her voice, and no soul! Just on that alone Brandy would kill her singing. Brandy knows how far to go and when to run. Beyonce tries to run every few words, that’s not singing naturally that’s being trained a little. I don’t think the girl B ever sung in church. Christina is white but she would kill the both of them if you want to be honest!
218.
naynay
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 /
Beyonce looks good in these and I’m glad that it sounds like they are ( jay-z) doing well. B/c they always look like they are having fun in their vacation pics. You can’t knock her hustle! The girl doin the damn thang!
219.
star0610
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 /
Damn…does te world revovle around B?!?!?
220.
star0610
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 /
Oops…….I meant ‘the’!
221.
blackspirals
Tuesday, August 8, 2006 /
There’s no doubt B’s pretty but she’s overrated. She really gets on by on her looks. She needs to switch it up a little though…and stop doing tv interviews cause she comes off as ditzy and stupid. All of y’all tired of seeing her better brace yourselves cuz with her new album dropping she’s gonna be everywhere for at least the next 12 months…sigh
222.
Peaches
Thursday, August 10, 2006 /
Get it Bee..U gotta get how u live..But by now it’s somebody else’s turn to grace the cover of some magazines.After she just needs to take a break like Mariah did.
223.
kay
Friday, August 11, 2006 /
Ring the alarm video premieres on Yahoo August 16th
http://music.yahoo.com/premieres
224.
tjack
Saturday, August 12, 2006 /
Do ya thang Beyonce, I aint mad at cha. Been a fan, still a fan, will always be a fan. Some of these other female artists need to hire whoever does Bee’s promoting cause they make SURE the public sees her 100,000 times before every album drops Fa sho!
Question?…….
Hey anyone know where you can hear the preview for Ring the Alarm? I heard a small snippet of it yesterday but that was about it.
225.
lisa
Saturday, August 12, 2006 /
do your thang beyonce! any man that can have your ass on the floor rolling around like you are having seizures, has to be using that tongue really well. jigga got beyonce strung out! the sex has to be great! you can see those eyes light up! you go young B.
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