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Word is that Beyonce is near the decision of finally leaving the birds nest as she wants to cut ties with her manager and father, Mathew Knowles.

Beyonce Knowles is finally telling her manager and father, Mathew Knowles, to back off. Mathew has been Beyonce's manager for years and is known to be a "stage dad" who complains to the media every time his daughter doesn't get what she wants. He has rightfully earned the name "Daddy Knowles" and has insisted that his daughter be given writing credits on songs she had nothing to do with, except sing them.

Beyonce is riding very high right now thanks to her chart-topping album, I am.....Sasha Fierce. She has just announced a US Tour. The album and tour have received good reviews so far, thanks to Beyonce's taking a stand against her father. It is rumored that Mathew Knowles wanted Beyonce to record a jazz record instead of the hit record she has now. It is also rumored that Daddy also wanted Beyonce to play venues such as Dodger's Stadium in Los Angeles, Soldier Field in Chicago, and Giants Stadium in New Jersey and charge $200 - $400 a ticket. Most music industry insiders agree that tickets sales would have been disastrous

Solange Knowles recently chopped it up with MTV about her upcoming project and a duet with sister Beyonce.

‘"I definitely think that they'll be a time and a place for me and my sister to collaborate.It's just all about the time and the place and letting it evolve naturally - and whenever that day happens well embrace it well come up with something good."

On her next album:

"I've actually started the early groundwork for the third record," she explained. "More so in finding out and experimenting on who I want to be on board with ... just more so experimenting with the ideas of finding one or two solid musicians and building from there."

On introducing Beyoncé to new music:

"I play a lot of new music for her, 'cause obviously she works a lot," she said. "I get the chance to introduce new music to her and that's always fun. It's sort of our little bond through music - exploring new artists."

Everyone's favorite former Hot 97 personality, Miss Jones, recently opened her mouth and poured her opinion of what she thought went on behind the scenes in the Destiny's Child inner circle...

Oh boy! Here she goes again! Beyonce and her dad stood by and watched as Kelly Rowland lost her Miami condo, failed with both her albums and now gets dropped from Columbia Records. How f*cked up is that?

I understand that Matthew would be pissed that his own daughter(Kelly) would fire him as a manager, but to have her dropped from her label? Is it not enough that everytime Kelly attempted to drop a record Beyonce conveniently dropped one too? Or that each time there was an Award show where Beyonce was performing Kelly could only be in the audience cheering her on? Or how can we forget that other performance where Beyonce performed and tore it down and then introduced Kelly AFTER to sing some new single she had? The crowd went from WOW!!! to woah!!! That was so messy i felt like throwing on some plastic pants and doing some background moves myself just to hype up her crowd!LOL!(yall know i'm joking bout the plastic). But Matthew has been unfair to Kelly from the gate in regards to her career. I guess this is his way of winning favor with Tina Knowles for having this out of wedlock child so long ago? And even convincing Tina to allow his lovechild from another to move into the Knowles abode? And bringing this memory of infidelity into Golden Child Beyonce's Girl Group? Next time just jerk off in the mirror Matthew because you're ruining lives AND careers!

The saddest part of it all is that Kelly can actually hum better than Beyonce!

Do you know how badly they had to have brainwashed this girl to sit tight, wait her turn and just root for Beyonce? All to get kicked out of her house,(while B brags about how much property she owns) lose her fiance(while B secretly weds Joe Camel), and release records that only get outshadowed by Beyonce's fully supported albums! C'mon Sasha, you know that sh*t aint right..and Karma will come and snap you right in that big ole Tina booty of yours if you don't start looking out for others.(especially yo blood!)

Well Kelly hate to say we told you so...so we won't...JUST GO ON AND WRITE THE TELL ALL BOOK....you can call it The Child Of Destiny Speaks Out! We'll be waiting!!

After being on Beyonce's sack for portraying her in the recent firm Cadillac Records, Etta James recently tore a new butt hole in Queen B for performing her legendary "At Last" ballad for the first couple...

Though she wasn't the first singer to perform it, the 71-year-old James has made the smoldering ballad "At Last" her signature song since it became a hit for her in 1961. Beyoncé sang for President Obama and first lady Michelle Obama's first dance at the Neighborhood Ball two weeks ago. For some reason, that seems to have angered James, who put Beyoncé, and the president, for that matter, on blast during a show at Seattle's Paramount Theatre on January 28.

During the gig, she criticized the singer's performance at the inauguration. "You guys know your president, right? You know the one with the big ears?" began her rant, a recording of which was obtained by TMZ. "Wait a minute, he ain't my president. He might be yours; he ain't my president. But I tell you that woman he had singing for him, singing my song - she's going to get her a- whipped.

"The great Beyoncé," James went on. "Like I said, she ain't mine. ... I can't stand Beyoncé. She has no business up there, singing up there on a big ol' president day, gonna be singing my song that I've been singing forever."
Source: MTV

*UPDATE: Etta James recently made a statement to the media claiming that she was just "joking" around...

"I didn't really mean anything," James said. "Even as a little child, I've always had that comedian kind of attitude. ... That's probably what went into it." Still, James acknowledged being miffed she wasn't invited to perform her signature song for Obama's first dance with his wife on inauguration night. James said she was "feeling left out of something that was basically mine, that I had done every time you look around." She said she liked Beyoncé's performance, but when asked if she thought she could have done better, James answered, "I think so. That's a shame to say that."

Beyonce recently spoke THE REAL on how it was coming up and being compared to The Jackson Family in a brand new GIANT Magazine spread…

“I grew up upper-class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like the Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”

Well there you have it...