Some people may choose to turn a blind eye to it, but it’s no secret that superstar diva Beyonce has a reputation for lying about her abilities as a songwriter, and has even been proven on multiple occasions to have not written some of the music that has her name on the credits.

Well now popular producer Rob Fusari (best known for working with Lady GaGa) has publicly put Beyonce and her father Mathew Knowles on blast for lying about the #1 hit “Bootylicious”, which Fusari wrote and produced back in 2001 when he first trying to make a name for himself in the industry.

I came up with the idea to build a track using the guitar riff from Stevie Nicks’ “Edge of Seventeen.” I really wanted to play the riff from “Eye of the Tiger,” but I was flipping through my CDs in the studio and I couldn’t find it. But I saw the Stevie Nicks CD and I remembered that the riff was similar.

I figured I’d put the guitar loop on there temporarily, and later go into the studio with a guitar and replay it, because I’d learned, after sampling Stevie Wonder’s “I Wish” for Will Smith’s “Wild Wild West,” that I didn’t want to lose 50% of the publishing. I vividly remember telling Mathew Knowles, “Mathew, you got to book me into your studio and let me replay that riff.” It was Guitar 101! One note!

He didn’t want to do it. So 50% got cut for one note. That whole experience was bittersweet for me.

He then continues, recalling an incident in which he saw Beyonce on TV taking credit for the song, which then led to an altercation with her father Mathew.

I remember watching Barbara Walters interview Beyoncé about “Bootylicious,” and she told Barbara about how she came up with the idea for the track. And I was just like, “What?” I called Mathew-which was a big mistake; I got emotional, and I apologized after-but I called Mathew and said, “Mathew, like, why?”

And he explained to me, in a nice way, he said, “People don’t want to hear about Rob Fusari, producer from Livingston, N.J. No offense, but that’s not what sells records. What sells records is people believing that the artist is everything.” And I’m like, “Yeah, I know, Mathew. I understand the game. But come on, I’m trying too. I’m a squirrel trying to get a nut, too.” {source}

It’s such a shame that certain ‘artists’ can take credit for other peoples work, which in turn takes away from the individual who actually put in the effort in the first place to create the thing in the first place.

This seems to be a norm in the music industry, but many of the people who’s hard work and talent is being stolen don’t really have much of a choice in the matter because often they can be smaller producers/songwriters who need the work or the money and don’t want to jeopardize their future in the music industry by speaking out against somebody much more successful and powerful than themselves.

At the end of the day it’s not just a matter of integrity, it’s also a financial issue because these people then have to unfairly split their royalties with other people.

Unfortunately this ugly practice still goes on today, with Beyonce’s recent record-breaking Grammy win including an award for “Song of the Year” which is given to the composer of the track, not the performer, even though “Single Ladies” was actually written and produced by The-Dream & Tricky and had it’s own vocal arranger who handled the vocal production and arrangements.

Do you think if the perpetrators of these shady acts are called out enough that they will ever stop, or is simply a lost cause?

According to the gossip blogs the pride of Texas Tina Knowles has finally sent slimy Mathew Knowles on his way with the dreaded “D” word. Want proof? Click here, here, and here.

It’s no secret that Daddy Knowles enjoys extra-marital activities. My homegirl Danielle posted on her blog (DC rumours) that he got another woman pregnant and was keeping it hush-hush, so Matty sent his lawyers after her, shut down the site temporarily and threatened legal action. Luckily she managed to get her site back, and then a month or two later the it popped up on TMZ that the sideline ho had filed a paternity suit against Matthew. Fancy suing a website for telling the truth!

I have another juicy story to, but I’ll change the names to avoid legal action! One of my music business teachers had the pleasure of working with “Monty Trowles” and a successful girl group he managed called “Fates Children” back in 2005. Not only did the girl group have some extremely extravagant demands but at one point during the planning process Monty vanished and was supposedly off on a yaught with one of his mistresses. Don’t quote me on this though, I don’t want my ass gettin’ sued! I uh, made it all up…yes… it’s all pretend… *blank stare*.

Anyways if Tina really does give Matty his marching orders what do you think this means for Beyonce? It’s typical of children to take sides when their parents go through a messy divorce, but who exactly will Bey side with? The man who turned her into a star or her dear old scorned mother?

Could she even survive without Mathew to guide her every move? Oh wait, she has her other crooked captor Jay-Z, she’ll be fine!

According to the NY Daily News singer Kelly Rowland is reportedly furious with Mathew Knowles and Beyonce after being dragged into a copyright-infringement lawsuit for the Destiny’s Child hit “Cater 2 U”.

Kelly and her DC bandmates Michelle Williams and Beyonce were almost forced to fly to Chicago for the trial, but at the eleventh hour the case was conveniently settled out of court. An insider however has spoken out to the media and lifted the lid on Kelly’s fury over the legal drama.

“Matthew [Knowles] has a long history of trying to get songwriters to add Beyoncé’s name to songs she didn’t compose, just so she gets publishing royalties,” the insider says of Daddy Knowles, who managed the group. “That information eventually became widely known, and now anyone who wants to accuse Kelly or Destiny’s Child of stealing material has ammunition to file a lawsuit. Kelly is livid.”

“Kelly isn’t happy having to fight these allegations,” continues the source. “She feels as though this is just another mess that Matthew got them into while only trying to serve the sole interest of his daughter.”

Kelly’s friendship with Beyonce has reportedly been on the rocks ever since she fired Mathew as her manager and took control of her career. The once firm friends haven’t been seen together in months, with Rowland failing to attend Beyonce Billboard Women of The Year ceremony despite bandmate Michelle Williams showing up to lend her support.

“She and Beyoncé remained cordial at first,” the source says. “But things have gotten tense since Kelly griped that Matthew is the cause of this lawsuit.”

Thank God Kelly has distanced herself from all this drama. The rift between K-Row and Bey has been pretty obvious for a while now, especially since Kelly rekindled her friendship with Brandy whom she infamously fell out with when Brandy told her that Mathew was sabotaging her career and focusing all his attention on Bey.

According to new reports the talented Knowles sister Solange has parted ways with her label Interscope/Geffen records.

The story was originally reported by BV Buzz back in April, but was vehemently denied by Mathew Knowles who accused the website of creating “false statements”, followed by Solange herself who took to Twitter to verbally ridicule the columnist who wrote the story.

BV Buzz also revealed that “there was a lot of behind the scenes begging and pleading to have the story killed and removed”.

The label then ended their relationship with Solange a month after the original story ran.

“They just waited for the buzz to die down and quietly ended their relationship with her,” a source close to the label revealed.

Interscope originally signed a one-off deal with Music World Entertainment to release Solange’s sophomore album Sol-Angel and the Hadley St. Dreams, but when the album failed to sell any more than 150k they decided not to continue their relationship with the singer.

Solange is now working on her third studio album which she described as “experimental”. Papa Knowles on the other hand is trying to find his daughter a new deal, with BV Buzz also reporting back in April that Mathew sabotaged a deal between Kelly Rowland and Epic Records in order to try and get Solange signed to the label instead.

*UPDATE*

Now that the story has broken, Solange is on her Twitter pretending that she left Interscope on her own terms. SMH. Check out her statement below.

Although it’s been a wonderful journey & experience at Interscope Records, after truly recognizing what’s important to ME as an artist, I decided it was time for me to continue my path on a more independent platform. I’m excited about continuing to dive in, experiment and creating music and art with no boundaries, fears or expectations.

So the Shady Bunch have gotten caught lying again. What a surprise.

All shadiness aside, I am eager to hear Solange’s third album because I thought her last one was excellent. I’m sure Papa Knowles will work something out for her, I mean he even got her on Oprah for God’s sakes.

Here are some new snaps of LeToya and Ludacris on the set of their new video “Regret”, which is the third single from LeToya’s new album Lady Love.

LeToya looks amazing and I can’t wait to see the video. Capitol weren’t even going to shoot a clip in the first place, but the song has done so well with zero promotion by reaching #11 on the R&B chart and #96 on the Hot 100 that the label basically had no choice.

I also have some more juicy gossip/rumours about LeToya’s continued fued with Matthew Knowles, but you’ll have to check under the cut for that because it’s a long story!

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The sneakiest snake in the music industry, Matthew Knowles, has been slapped with a paternity suit from a woman who is allegedly pregnant with his child.

The woman, Alexsandra Wright, works in the name-branding business and is reportedly in her 30’s.

Wright, who is 6-months pregnant, filed the case last week in L.A. Sources say Wright is repped by Neal Hersh, who is currently repping Lamar Odom in the prenuptial negotiations with Khloe Kardashian.

The 58-year-old Mathew has been married to Tina Knowles since 1980. Together they have two daughters, Beyonce & Solange. [Source]

This guy is a mess. I have to choose my words carefully since Matthew tried to sue Destiny’s Child Rumours blog a few months back when they first said that he got a woman pregnant, but I’ve had two people tell me about Matthews activities outside of marriage before, so this is certainly no shock to me. I hope he gets busted and this is his child, so then I can throw it in the Bey stans faces and help you guys see why I dislike Beyonce’s career so much.

She’s a sweet girl and extremely talented, but I will never support someone who’s career was carefully calculated and crafted by this man, using every dirty trick to get to the top. Maybe if his dirty dealings continue to get aired out in public then Beyonce will finally wake up to herself and stop being such a manufactured puppet.