Beyoncé: Year Of 4 Video

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It sure has been one helluva year for Beyoncé and MTV premieres a special chronicling her past 12 months. Cameras follow Bey during her video shoots, dance rehearsals, and traveling across the globe as she prepares to release her fourth studio album. 4 in stores now.


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Beyonce's Baby Talk

Despite being the subject of constant false baby rumors, Beyonce doesn't duck the question of offspring when it's brought up. Discussing her personal life with talk show host Piers Morgan, Bey says that she could be birthing a little Jigga-yonce sooner than fans think.

"I always said I'd have a baby at 30," she said. "I'm 29. But I also said I was going to retire at 30. I'm not retiring...Only God knows [when]...I feel like 30 is the ideal age, because you're mature enough to know who you are and have your boundaries and your standards and not be afraid or too polite, but young enough to be a young woman. I'm so looking forward to it."

Beyonce On Glastonbury

Glastonbury is one of the U.K.'s most celebrated musical festivals. While the venue became famous for alternative rock acts in the 1990s, in recent years, more rap and R&B have taken over the bill. Jay-Z famously played the festival in 2009 and this year, his wife Beyonce gave a dazzling performance for 175,000 in attendance.

"I’m feeling so good," Beyonce said after the show. "I’m completely high. It’s so surreal of what just happened and I wasn’t kidding when I said, “This night was a dream.” I felt like a rock star and the crowd looked like rock stars. I’m just so honored really; this is like a highlight of my career."

Big Sean On Beyonce Comparison

Kanye West caused a little bit of a stir recently when he said that his protege, G.O.O.D. Music rapper Big Sean, would achieve fame on the level of pop/R&B superstar Beyonce. Instead of running from the odd comparison, Sean says he will embrace it and use it as motivation.

"You know, I am gonna be that. I'm gonna take it there. I'm not gonna make 'Ye eat his words or anything," he says. "I appreciate him being so outspoken and for believing in me so much. It gives me my own confidence."

Beyonce On Being A Role Model

Millions of girls the world over idolize Beyonce, and the superstar doesn't take that position lightly. Despite the fact that some have complained about the sexuality prevalent in many of her videos, Bey is very serious about being a role model.

"Being a role model is something that I’ve always been," Beyonce said in an interview. "It’s not something I became, it’s something I was already because I had a younger sister and I believe that being a role model is something every woman is even if you don’t realize it. There’s always someone watching you, someone that admires you and I believe we help each other so much and I don’t take being a role model lightly."

Beyonce also discussed why her new album is called simply 4.

"To be honest with you, my fans actually suggested the number four as the title. I saw for the past year that they kind of claimed it. They just said “were waiting for ‘4’, we’re waiting for ‘4’” and I said “Alright fans, I think you’re right.”

Beyonce On Beyonce

Beyonce recently opened up about...well...herself...in a series of short interviews asked by designers Tom Ford, Riccardo Tisci, Stefano Pilati and Gareth Pugh. She shared quite a bit about her mindset and view of herself.

"I used to be very shy. I don’t think I’m shy any more," Beyonce told Tom Ford. "I get really uncomfortable when I’m not performing on the stage or on a photo shoot and have too many people looking at me expecting a performance. It make me kind of shut down and become shy. I’m happier to talk to people and try to learn something from them. I’m better at one-on-one conversations. I do become shy and a bit intimidated when it’s a large group of people, I definitely retreat. At a big dinner I just hope that no one expects anything from me. I wish I’d disappear."

Beyonce Addresses Album Leak

Beyonce's highly-anticipated album 4 unexpectedly hit the web yesterday, two weeks before its official June 28th release date. The superstar addressed the album leak and thanked her fans for what she says has been a 'positive' reaction to the premature album.

"My music was leaked and while this is not how I wanted to present my new songs, I appreciate the positive response from my fans," Beyonce said. "When I record music I always think about my fans singing every note and dancing to every beat. I make music to make people happy and I appreciate that everyone has been so anxious to hear my new songs."

Kanye Compares Big Sean To Beyonce

Kanye West appeared at a listening party for G.O.O.D. Music's Big Sean and had some high words of praise for the young rapper. Kanye proceeded to compare Sean to Beyonce and then signed off with a subtle hint towards his highly-anticipated upcoming album, Watch the Throne with Jay-Z.

"Big Sean's story is one of the most amazing ever because he literally got signed off of a freestyle," West said. "To now...having the potential to be one of the biggest artists in the world...What Beyonce is to R&B...Big Sean can be to rap.....And I apologize for being late, I had a Throne to watch."

Jada Pinkett Smith On Parenthood

Jada Pinkett Smith addressed the criticism of she and her husband, actor Will Smith, and the fact that their two youngest children, actor Jadan and singer Willow, have become pint-size celebrities in their own right. Jada stressed that she and Will aren't harming their kids by allowing them to pursue their dreams under the glare of the spotlight.

“There are so many other kids you can worry about," Jada told Uptown magazine. "My kids? They’re going to be all right. I get why people would criticize. But people need to know that Will and I would never put our children in a situation that would bring them detriment, my kids have no idea how I grew up, Even in knowing my story, they couldn’t know what that means. They have no RE-ALI-TY. None."

"My feeling is, my kids need to have challenges," she continued. "In a safe way. If I survived everything that I survived in Baltimore and Will survived everything he survived in Philly, these kids surely can survive the Hollywood game."

"With so many heavyweights surrounding them—from Beyoncé and Jay-Z to Will Smith and Jada Pinkett Smith to Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony—if they can fail in a circle like that, then they weren’t going to win in the first place," she added. "All I want for Trey (Will’s oldest son from his first marriage), Jaden, and Willow is happiness."

Andre 3000 On Beyonce Album

The track listing for 4, the upcoming album by superstar Beyonce, has been revealed. The pop star looks to have very few guest stars on the album, among them the legendary Andre 3000.

Beyonce announced the song lineup and 3000 is the only guest star it looks like that will be on the album.

The songs appeared on Beyonce's Facebook page. 3000 will appear on a song called "Party." On 2003s Dangerously in Love, Bey collaborated with Big Boi on the track “Hip-Hop Star."

Beyonce Admits Italian Artist's Influence

As Beyonce haters everywhere were lining up to burn her at the stake for 'stealing' her Billboard Awards performance from Italian artist Lorella Cuccarini, the pop megastar sat down with AOL Music and acknowledged that the entire show was influenced by Cuccarini's performance from 2010.

"My makeup artist showed me the performance of Lorella Cuccarini a year ago, and it inspired me so much," Beyonce says. "I then met with the talented people who worked on it. The technology and concept were so genius. Thank god for YouTube or I would have never been exposed to something so inspiring. I never worked so hard on anything in my life as that performance for the Billboard Awards.”

Beyonce Stole the Show? Allegedly

In other showbiz news, the Queen of Performance has allegedly been accused of copying her highly anticipated Billboard Awards set from Italian singer Lorella. The high tech LED screen intro had various similarities to Lorella's 2010 performance in Europe. HMMMM You be the judge. Allegedly

Nas Gushes Over His Kids

Nas is one proud papa. The Queensbridge lyricist recently opened up about his love for his little ones. And though his legal battles with his ex-wife, pop star Kelis, are well-documented, the rapper still beams when discussing their son and his older daughter.

"My kids are my everything," he said. "I got the best kids in the whole world. My daughter is at the age where she can call me up and tell me what she thinks about Beyonce's new video and what she thinks about Wiz Khalifa and we can talk about it all. My son is walking and talking and he's no joke. I got the best kids in the world. I walk around everyday very blessed."

Gwyneth Paltrow Spits Some N.W.A.

Gwyneth Paltrow has made a second career out of pronouncing her 'street cred.' The Oscar-winning actress who chums around with Jay-Z and Beyonce recently revealed her love for gangsta rap icons N.W.A. She took her admiration a step further by rapping some of the lyrics to the group's classic "Gangsta, Gangsta" on the BBC, after an interviewer revealed he was unfamiliar with the L.A. quintet's classic Straight Outta Compton.

"[Straight Outta Compton?] It's a classic N.W.A. album," Paltrow told BBC host Graham Norton before he asked her to rap. "You want me to [rap?] There's one word I can't say. OK -- 'Yo, here's a little something about a 'uh' like me, never should have been let out the penitentiary/Ice Cube, I like to say that I'm a crazy motherf*cker from around the way/Since I was a youth, I smoked weed out/Now I'm the motherf*cker that you read about.' [laughs]"

World Premiere Beyonce Run “Run The World (Girls)”

 Francis Lawrence directed video for Beyonce‘s Major Lazer “Pon Di Floor” sampling new single “Run The World (Girls)” produced by Switch and written by The Dream. The lead off single from Beyonce’s upcoming yet untitled new LP

Jay-Z and Kanye Working Hard

Kanye West and Jay-Z are hard at work on their upcoming project Watch the Throne, as the rappers have reportedly moved from their studio at the Mercer Hotel to the Tribeca Grand Hotel to finish the project. The New York Post's reports that the duo was laying down tracks Wednesday night until 7 a.m. Thursday in a studio that had been specially set up in the hotel.

Universal exec Barry Weiss, rapper Kid Cudi and others briefly stopped by, but things remained all business.

"They were laying down tons of tracks," a witness said. "It was intense -- no Beyoncé and no booze."

Beyonce Denies Royal Rumor

Beyonce's people are denying reports that the singer and Jay-Z will be performing at the Royal Wedding this Friday for Prince William and Kate Middleton (April 29.)

“The ceremony is not on her schedule and she has a shoot in New York on Saturday," a rep said. The Daily Star previously reported that "William and Kate are massive fans of Beyonce and Jay-Z."

Beyonce and Jay-Z are holed up in the Hotel Le Meurice, a lavish hotel in Paris, which only further fueled the rumors. The two are actually in France to promote Beyonce's "Girls Who Run the World" project.

Jennifer Hudson On Her Old Size

Academy Award-winning actress Jennifer Hudson recently opened about her perceptions of herself prior to her losing weight and how she didn't realize she had a weight problem growing up.

“I never thought I was overweight. I thought my old look was pretty normal. That was how all the girls looked growing up in Chicago. I didn’t have any problem with it. It makes me smile to think back to myself when I did ‘Dreamgirls’ with Beyonce. I did see all these women in Hollywood, all very slim and I thought, ‘Wow, these ladies are very into themselves.’ I loved that I stood out in a room. You knew when you saw this woman it was Jennifer Hudson.”

The singer added that her friends Beyonce and Alicia Keys continue to rave about how great she looks.

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Jay-Z Praises His Women

Jay-Z was recently interviewed by his longtime friend, actress Gwyneth Paltrow. In a convo for the GOOP Newsletter, Gwyneth told Hov he was the coolest man on earth and asked "how the f" he got that way. Jay explained exactly what makes him seem that way.

"I'm around great women, starting with my mom," Jay said. "Women keep men cool. The hotter the chick the cooler the guy--that sounds like a really bad rap line!"

A certain pop diva will no doubt be happy to hear that answer.