Beyonce Knowles-Carter covers the latest issue of Essence Magazine and spoke on her relationship with Jay-Z, her spirituality and more. Check out these snippets we got from out friends over at BROWN-SISTA.
ON JAY-Z
What Jay and I have is real. It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op. It’s real..
ON HER LEGACY
I don’t want to be remembered as a member of this huge group that, you know, did whatever. I want to be acknowledged as a woman in a very talented group with great harmonies and great songs that made history and changed the culture of women, not only in America but all over the world. (A woman) who could sing a cappella and write her own songs and produce her own songs.
Paris Bennett WELCOMES BABYGIRL
Paris Bennett (from American Idol fame) welcomed her daughter Egypt Bennett into the world on Monday, October 6th.
Bennett was in labor for 5 hours with her baby girl who weighed 5 pounds 15 ounces. The proud first time mother is doing well and recovering. Paris’ mother Jamecia Bennett and her family is filled with excitement and welcomes their bundle of joy.
Paris says, “I’m so excited to finally see my little angel and man does she have lungs on her I guess she’s gearing up to be the next American Idol.”
Paris will also release “A Royal Christmas” her first Christmas CD on October 14.
Go Beyonce! I still haven’t heard the new songs yet. Loving the cover. Congrats Paris
Bee looks absolutely great on the cover. I can’t wait for my opportunity to shoot with her.
CHRISTMAS IN PARIS…Oh Joy
Congratulations Paris!
I love the way Bey answered that question on Jay: “What Jay and I have is real. It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op. It’s real..”. She kept it sweet and simple aka mind your own business! In due time, Bey WILL be a legend.
paris and egypt. jay and bee.
I heard “If I were a Boy” this morning on the radio (z100) and it was the s**t!!!!!
She came with it vocally, relatively and the lyrics were excellent! IMO
I’m curious to hear what “Single Ladies” sounds like!
Super, stunning, sexy, siren, smart, simple. Yup, Beautiful Bee.~ Beyonce~
Angel, can you post the original song by BC Jean called if I were a Boy, the song that Beyonce is coming out with. Also, the cover looks overly photoshopped. I think since her album is coming out now Beyonce wants to talk about her wedding it was relevant when she she got married. Congrats to Paris on her baby girl.
Congrats to Paris, I like that pic of her. I love me some Ann Nesby too lol
Nice cover Beyonce. I heard her new song. Very nice
Im gonna say this once. Beyonce is all about having a good reputation and her and her family doesn’t want that image to be ruined, but I don’t think she knows that her image is in away already been ruined. The real reason that Beyonce ALWAYS seems to garner so much hate from the media and on different blog sites is not because she is light-skinned because if that were the case I would see just as much hate comments when we talk about a Rihanna or a Tyra Banks. The REASON for as to why people will always kind of not like her is because people feel that she stepped on Letoya, Letavia, Farrah, Kelly, and Michelle to become a star. Like in a Letoya interview she said that Beyonce and her father weren’t thinking as team players and used Destiny’s Child as a stepping stone to get where they wanted to go. I feel that we will see a fall from Beyonce because Michelle isn’t happy and Michelle isn’t up in Beyonce’s ass as Kelly is. I have a feeling that one day Michelle will write a tell-all book to destroy her career. Like always say KARMA IS A BISH!!!
Go Bey! I like her Jay response also…
Congrats to Paris… she seemed so sweet on AI!
……..YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS MAAM Miss BEYONCE. Looking Gorgeous.
……..You guys need to see the pics inside. She looks absolutely flawless.
Love BeYOncE Always!
She looks Beauty!!! As Always!
She’s a ☆ she’s a ◆
She’s BEYonCE!
Jeeze!
Amazing what dirt celebrities will dish to sell records, books and to promote movies. Now she wants to talk about her relationship to Jay. It is old news. Who cares.
I still say Beyonce is going to kill her own career with too much over exposure. It is called over kill just like J-Lo.
—— I heard Bey’s song on the radio this morning. Love her !!
Eh.
I seem to be the only one who didn’t care for her new songs.
Maybe it’ll grow on me.
Damn! Still haven’t heard her new joint! I’m hoping that CL will post it -hint, hint.
Beyonce is all about image.
I’m sure what she is Jay Z have is real. that Jay Z wanted to date her not because he helped his image and vice versa. That Destiny Child changed things for Women all over the world. With song like Let me Cater to You”
“I Got Your Slippers, Your Dinner, Your Dessert, And So Much More
Anything You Want, I Want To Cater To You”
Or better yet the grand lryics from Solider….
“If his status ain’t hood, I ain’t checkin’ for him
Better be street if ya lookin’ at me”
I can see women all over the globe singing these wonderful lyrics Bey.
Or better yet singing about guys on Drugs that their eyes are not even open…
Eyes see so low from that chiefin’
Beyonce just stop it please!
This is what makes me say give it a BREAK.
If you want to be seen like an ICON start acting like one.
bey’s new single…if i were a boy is killer!!!!! it should be number 1 b4 it even comes out! seriously!!! who want it with bey?
congrats to paris!!!! that’s my baby!
IF JAY-Z HONESTLY CARED ABOUT BEYONCE IT WOULD NOT HAVE TAKEN HIM 6 YEARS TO MARRY HER. THAT’S NOT LOVE HE WAS CONTEMPLATING. SHE THINKS ALOT HIGHLY OF HERSELF THAN WHAT SHE SHOULD. ALL THAT ARROGANT WAYS OF THINKING IS EXACTLY WHY SHE DID NOT GET THE OSCAR FOR DREAMGIRLS. PARIS??? THERE IS NOTHING EXCITING ABOUT A CHILD BEING BORN OUT OF WEDLOCK. ANOTHER STATISTIC OF A BLACK WOMAN NOT MARRIED. SHE HAD A CAREER AHEAD OF HER NOW THAT BABY IS ABOUT TO SLOW ALL OF THAT DOWN.
who is this woman that Beyawn keeps talking about? Who is the woman that writes her own songs (does she mean takes credit for songs other people has written)????
I am so over her…let’s talk about real talent…
Aww beyonce looks really pretty on the cover. I am going to get the mag so i read the entire interview. She is so perfect. Lmao..
#10 just kill yourself.
You typed a whole paragraph that has absolutely NOTHING to do with the topic. One word for you: PATHETIC.
BTW Rihanna and Tyra Banks get hate on blogs too. All celebs do. And if people really hated Beyonce, then she would not be a megastar and Letoya would have blew up. So apparently MILLIONS of people love Beyonce.
So go on somewhere with your psycho Miss Cleo fortune teller bullcrap.
LISTEN TO THE NEW SINGLE “IF I WERE A BOY” HERE:
http://kisscleveland.elvi...n.com/pages/news/beyonce/
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The song is nice. I read the interview snippets and I don’t agree with her statement
“I completely believe that you don’t have to go to church at all if you are disciplined enough to sit down and dedicate time to pray and get to know God and read the Bible.”
No, Jesus said “upon this Rock I build my Church.” And that doesn’t mean you have to go the building every Sunday, but you do need to be apart of a community of believers who can speak truth to you and encourage you and hold you accountable.
But she does go on to say that for her, it’s necessary to be around other believers because it’s more effective.
@10 Please..you have got to be kiddin! Honey that is the music business, every man for him or herself. Think about the Jacksons they were a family and only two were sucessful. Would you say that Micheal should be ashamed of himself !?! At the end of the day i’m sure they (Michelle and Kelly) realize that it is business and not personal. They had great success with Destiny Child so they will be alright! Beyonce seems to be more determined, she has a goal in mind and she’s not gonna stop until she reaches it…. that’s not a bad thing!
#18 #20 and #21 go sit down somewhere.
DC is the best selling girl group of all time and Beyonce has several songs that have made history. Not everybody likes ballads. Crazy in love, Irreplacable, Independent Women, etc were all worldwide hits so #18 just stfu.
And #20 since when is there a time limit to marry somebody. I know people who dated for 20 years and then got married. You just sound stupid as hell.
And #21 sorry to burst your bubble but Beyonce is already an icon and is on her way to becoming a legend. Jhud may have won an Oscar but she is still not as popular, rich, and successful as Beyonce. People act like that Dreamgilrs thing destroyed her career or something. It didn’t affect her at all. Beyonce is the one in Forbes not Jhud.
And if Beyonce’s wedding is irrelevant then why are people still talking about it? They are still talking about her ring and asking her about it so obviously the topic is relevant.
Haters make no sense. They really are delusional.
beyonce made that statement about a cappella and writing her own to diss rhianna! that was to sho rhi rhi that no matter what… she aint got nothing on her. and it also goes for cassie and ciara, too.
damn bey is sexy as hell. hottest chick in the game fo sho. jay a lucky nigga
SHE IS NOT EVEN REALLY TALKING ABOUT HER WEDDING SHE SAID ONE THING AND THAT WAS IT DAMN!!!!!!!!!!!!! RELAX
number 27 you doing some serious reaching. lmao
I heard the Beyonce song this morning and I didn’t really like it, sounds just like one of her previous songs.
**** Hey Mrs. Carter photoshopped cover but she is cute
*****her singles are ok not major If I Were A Boy is for pop radio Irreplaceable beat
*************Singles Ladies sounds like Get Me Bodied part 2
******I am still buying that cd tho
beyonce… yawn.. she should have discussed this when the story was still hot, congrats paris
that new beyonce song is fire! dj’s are eating up. they telling other singers to bow down.
* Chris
You forgot about bootlicious, pay my bills (song about a man getting over on a woman), Irreplaceable (song about a man getting over a woman), ring the alarm…
she is just brillant i tell you…brillant
the beyonce wedding is still hot if people are still asking her about it.
damn do you some of you even think before you type? people are still talking about that wedding. get over it. if it wasnt a hot topic, you wouldn’t be commenting on it.
oh and bey is FIERCE FIERCE FIERCE on that cover.
all cover pics are photoshopped so dont even start that crap.
that is a beautiful woman.
#35 aka chris you are so sad. how many times are you going to type under different names saying the same ish over and over?
millions love beyonce so get over it. all those songs you named were hits. and its funny how you can name all her songs yet you claim not to like her. go jump off a bridge.
You people constantly contradict yourselves. You claim not to be a Beyonce fan but you know all her songs. That makes no sense. Give props when due. No other black female artist has accomplished as much as Beyonce in such a short time. She has done music movies endorsements sold out areans around the world and so on. She is going to continue to do her thang no matter what anyone says or thinks.
******** Congrats Paris!
The Essence interview is REAL that Beyonce did. I love her answers – they’re mature and real and not looking to sell or promote anything. She spoke from her heart.
IF I WERE A BOY AND SINGLE LADIES ARE FFFFFIIIIIYYYYAAAAHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!
They’ve been playing both and IIWAB lyrics are hot and her vocals are KRAZAY!!!
SL is of da muddafocking chain!!!! I can’t WAIT for that to get poppin’ in the clubs!!!
ANYONE who doesn’t like these two singles are either PURE HATERS or are DEAF TO REAL MUSIC.
FINALLY!!!! REAL MUSIC FOR THE LADIES!!!!
Go BEYONCE!!!! She looks so freaking HOT on the cover and both her songs are hot. Queen Bey is back!!!!!!!
Beyonce’s new songs are posted over at Dlisted for anyone who wants to hear them. RUSH ON OVER to dlisted.com
After hearing B’s version vs. BC Jean’s the original is much better. Beyonce’s version sounds a bit sad while BC’s sounds more edgier.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pSTA8C5A084 —If I were a boy “Beyonce’ “
They had to recycle this interview or Bey is giving the same answers to questions she was 2, 3 years ago. Vrey pretty magazine cover. I will not be buying it. Essence always has the same cover models over and over again.
Congrats Paris!
I dont know what to say about Parris, so I won’t comment. As for Beyonce, nice, I jope the Essence article is more detailed then these snippets here, sometimes their articles are just fluff pieces, like the one on Monique, I thought it was a serious topic but before it could go into challenges and triumphs, it was over. I was very disappointed I wish they would take a key from Oprah’s magazine, although I think the articles are more general *(for all women), Essence should try and hire better writers.
IDIOTS AND HATERS – For those thinking Beyonce is talking about Jay NOW….
SHE ALWAYS SAID IF SHE GAVE ANY INSIGHT TO THEIR RELATIONSHIP SHE’D DO IT AFTER THEY WERE MARRIED.
HER C.D. IS GOING TO SELL IF SHE ADVERTISED IT THE DAY BEFORE IT CAME OUT OR DIDN’T ADVERTISE IT AT ALL.
STOP HATING AND CHECK YOUR FACTS BEFORE YOU POST.
****Just listened to both songs, they are weak as hell. I’ll be passing on this album.
I feel beyonce on her comment about her and Jay-z…There is plenty of couples who are together just for a photo op/publicity(we won’t name no names, C. breezy)
CONGRATS to Paris, another healthy baby born into the world…Can’t ask for anything better!
I dont know why EVERY magazine claims they have the interview where Beyonce “fiinally” talks about jay. She never really talks directly about him. She gives the same answers she always gives (its private, weve lasted this long because we dont talk about it, were real we dont need to share,) and thats all fine, cuz bottom line its her business. But the magazines always claim they have THE interview where she dishes about it. PEOPLE need to realize what you already know about them is what you will always know. It will shock the hell out of me if she ever gives specific details about her relationship. Look at Jessica Simpson (ms tell all her business) all her relationships seem to crumble cuz she GIVES EVERY single detail about her personal relationships. Anyhoo like the song if i were a boy
@OB4PRES
Zip them lips hater!! Ugh, why are most of these haters so stupid and dumb?!? when song writers do songs for an artist, they usually do a rough demo recording for the artist. Then it is up to the artist to either accept it or switch it up. As usually the haters wanna have selective memory with different set of rules when it comes to Beyonce. Unfortunately haters, positive reviews are pouring in form mainstream media. Once again you FAILED haters!
….those are beys word …what does jay say lolo …..i hate photoshop…. paris enjoy your bundle of joy
********I am digging Single Ladies more it is jamming
I like her song better. You can remove your tongue from beyonce’s clit. Everyone is entitled to their own opinion just because mine does not favor image driven Beyonce doesn’t mean I’m a hater. You stans are psycho.
Bey cant be touched………that is all.
Oh and congrats to Paris, I always liked her.
…..As far as ppl saying that Beyonce ruined Letoya and Latavia careers. Lets
…..remember that BEYONCE has always had the most talent. They didn’t have to
…..form a group for Beyonce to be the SUPER-STAR that she is. And as far as I’m
…..concerned, I never understood the whole Destiny’s Child drama. But I do kno
…. that Mattehw quit a 6 firgure job to manage a girl group that wasn’t signed. It’s
…..clear the Knowles family made sacrifices. And thats why Beyonce is who she is.
….She want fall.
Where can I hear “SINGLE LADIES” ??????
I will admit that I was wrong I see the song was written and produced by Toby Gad who wrote Fergie’s Big Girls Don’t Cry. I will also state that the people at Z100 said that this is the best song of her career. So I will eat my own words. But I still like the other version. I can admit that I am wrong and I am no hater.
Beyonce is so damn sexy.
You jealous chicks kill me with that photoshop shit.
Every celeb gets photoshopped on covers but Bey is a naturally beautiful woman.
Stop the hate.
Get over it people! BEYONCE MARRIED A DRUG DEALER! How brilliant is that. The ONLY difference between them and others is that they are RICH HOODLUMS!