BEYONCE COVER ESSENCE MAGAZINE NOVEMBER 2008 ISSUE

Congrats to Beyonce who is a newlywed preparing to release a new album. The beautiful R&B singer  was inducted into the International Pediatric Hall of Fame at the Children's Hospital Foundation Diamond Ball and Private Concert at American Airlines Arena on October 4, 2008 in Miami, Florida.

Her husband, rapper and entrepreneur Jay-Z performed at the Last Chance for Change Rally at Bayfront Park on October 5.

Beyonce talks in the November issue of Essence about her relationship with Jay-Z. It's been a big year for the diva who is starring in two films.  Beyonce  portrays  soul legend  Etta James in the biopic "Cadillac Records" and a stalked woman in "Obsessed". 

“…What Jay and I have is real. It’s not about interviews or getting the right photo op. It’s real.”
—Beyoncé

In an intimate interview with ESSENCE, megastar Beyoncé dishes on her new album, Jay-Z, and life in the spotlight. Costarring in two upcoming films, the psychological thriller “Obsessed” and “Cadillac Records,” where she’ll star as Etta James, the Queen B is preparing to dominate the box office and the music charts. The singer says her new album, coming in November, is her most personal to date. For the first time ever, she opens up to ESSENCE about paparazzi, the wedding, the rumored engagement ring, and what we all missed! source

Brown Sista has an excerpt from the Beyonce interview.

ESSENCE: Do you think as Black women, we are expected to be superwomen? Even in relationships we are expected to hold it together.

Beyonce Knowles: Yeah. Guys are babies sometimes. Like they need you and it’s like, I need you and you are just supposed to drop it. I mean it’s very beautiful when you all are just doing the same thing for each other. But I know you just expect the woman to drop everything and fix it. A woman doesn’t even ask for it because they’re supposed to be strong enough to take care of it.

ESSENCE: What is church for you, in the real way?

Beyonce Knowles: 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. But me, it’s better for me to go to church because it’s hard to, for real, sit down by myself for that long, as long as I would be just totally committing myself in my house with the TV on and the distractions. It’s way harder to do that than to go to church with a bunch of people who believe in God, where you can just feel it so much more.

ESSENCE: Will history still remember you as having the soul of the artist? As opposed to just a girl who sold a lot of records.

Beyonce Knowles: 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.

Source: Kierna Mayo/www.essence.com

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