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

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tdubbs

Monday, August 14, 2006 /

janet and beyonce are the bomb, its going to be a great fall music wise

227.

Robyn

Let em hate Bey, you keep on doin what you doin gurlfriend, I know we got a whole lot more to see of you. You had to grow on me at first but now i am a loyal fan. Keep on doin the damned thang and don’t listen to the hater patrol out there.

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dv

Wednesday, August 23, 2006 /

RIHANNA,IS VERY PRETTY!!!!

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urbaneducator

Thursday, August 31, 2006 /

Soulchild (211) no disrespect, but it’s lazy to fall back on the excuse of “why do black people always have to hate on each other” as a reason to support some of the foolishness that Beyonce promotes.

God bless her soul, she is a sweet girl, but she is not a role model for young black girls. If I’m supposed to buy into her obsessive media frenzy…just because I’M black…then I’m gonna need her to put some clothes on and stop singing about being money-hungry and obsessed with a man…just because SHE’S black.

I don’t have to support anybody who has no concern for the negative impact they have on young children, girls in particular. Yes, she is rich and beautiful, but is that all we as a people value? What happened to us? What happened to the music that used to be our cultural statement? Now, like someone before me said, it’s dead. It’s devoid of any real meaning. And many of us have just accepted it.

I enjoy some of Beyonce’s music but I do not buy her products. Our community is too fragile for us to hoist someone like her up as the black woman to emulate.

A race is only as strong as its women and B is not strong. She is pretty but she’s not strong. She’s a product of the white media, anyway, so don’t give me that line about “black people always hating on each other.” That’s just a cop-out.