They’re celebrated as one of the greatest girl groups of all time, but not everyone loved Destiny’s Child. The popular trio delivered some of our favorite girl power anthems during their heyday, but back in 2001, the singers took to Hot 97‘s Summer Jam stage and were met with a roaring “boo” from the audience. At the time, the reception was disheartening, but Kelly Rowland told the radio station that they learned from the experience.

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“It prepared us, because what was so interesting was like, around that time Destiny’s Child was crossing over, and because we were crossing over, I think that it was a question if we were still down or Black, or…you know what I mean?” said Kelly. “At that time we crossed over so that was just in question, which is ridiculous.” She added that the way the group looked at it, if they were switching lanes, they wanted to make sure their community was represented and came with them. However, it didn’t quite go down like that, initially.

“Before we went out there, it was that overwhelming loud ‘boo’ and it was…we were looking at each other like ‘Are we going to do this, are we going to go out here?’” Kelly added. “I saw the look in [Beyonce’s] eyes and I was like, ‘If she’s going out there I’m not letting her go out there by herself. Like, I’m going with her.’ And then it was like a trickle effect, and then we were out there, we were on the stage.” 

As soon as they performed their set, they ran off stage and got as far away from Summer Jam as they could.“I don’t think it was anything anybody could’ve told us at that time. Here we are at the height of our career and we are being praised everywhere except for in our neighborhood,” Kelly recalled. “In the space that first took us on and gave us so much love.”

The group realized that the experience is apart of growing as artists and comes with success, so they chose not to dwell on the negatives. Watch Kelly Rowland chop it up with Hot 97 below.

We’re finding out quite a bit about Kelly Rowland. The Destiny’s Child icon married Tim Weatherspoon in 2014, and they’ve maintained a relatively private family life with their young son, Titan Weatherspoon. During this quarantine, the world has seen a different side of Kelly after she’s discussed her bedroom kinks with her friends on social media. While talking about her marriage with PEOPLE, Kelly Rowland revealed how she keeps her sex life with her husband interesting as years go on.

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“As far as sex is concerned, I’m like, ‘Well, if I have to play dress up and do role-play, honey, if I need to be Alicia tonight and give you a surprise in the middle of the night or something then it needs to happen. We spice things up a bit and keep it fun,” she said. “When we met each other, we had fun. Two years from now, we’ll have fun. I think if you hold that close to you, it can always show itself in your relationship.”

She also spoke about working through difficulties in her relationship. “Before I was married, I was like, ‘Well, if it doesn’t work, you just get a divorce,” she said. “[But now,] that’s not an option for me. That’s not an option for me because I know I have a good man. I know I have someone that loves me unconditionally and we’re gonna sort this thing out, we’re gonna figure it out. Above anything, we’ve got faith and we’ve got each other. Marriage means a lot to me. It’s something that I hold very sacred.”

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For anyone who has to celebrate their birthday during this COVID-19 quarantine, we’re all sorry. Many celebrities join you in your at-home festivities for your big day, including Lizzo, who turned 32-years-old yesterday (April 27). The pop icon wanted to make sure that she still partied regardless of her circumstances, and she even shared a video to Instagram that was a compilation of clips showing herself twerking for the camera. 

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There were hundreds of thousands of well-wishes that rolled in for Lizzo’s birthday, but there was one that stood out among the rest. The queen of the Beyhive, Mrs. Beyoncé Knowles-Carter, took the time to send a special message to the “Truth Hurts” singer, and it’s safe to say that Lizzo acted as anyone else would. She pretty much freaked out and shared it on social media.

“YALL. @beyonce BEY YON SAY wished me a happy birthday B*TCH !” Lizzo penned in a screenshot of Beyoncé’s message. “I don’t know how to ACT ? She is my inspiration to be a singer after seeing destiny’s child perform in the 5th grade… I LOVE YOU BEY! Thank You! Let me go drink some damn water ?.” Check it all out below.

21 Savage had a solo karaoke party over Instagram live on Sunday, belting out some absolute R&B classics from artists like Beyoncé, Usher, Aaliyah, and many more. The coronavirus quarantine has many people jumping on IG live to keep themselves and their followers entertained, and 21 Savage definitely knows what his audience wants to see. The rapper did not hold back one bit while he showed off his impressive repertoire of R&B hits from over the years. Included in this collection are Beyoncé's "Me, Myself & I" as well as Destiny's Child's "Cater 2 U," and you don't want to miss his emotional rendition of Usher's "Burn." Check out all the different songs he tackled from artists like Brandy, Chris Brown, and Pharrell, and prepare to be blown away.

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The battle of the girl groups was hot back in the day, only further proven by this old footage of Kiely Williams and Farrah Franklin attempting to one-up each other’s credentials. Ever since she dredged up some past drama with her former fellow Cheetah Girl and 3LW member, Adrienne Houghton (née Bailon) over IG live this week, Kiely has been making headlines for the first time in many years.

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This resurfaced girl group drama no doubt had the Internet fishing for tangible evidence of the former besties’ feud, which lead someone to come across some throwback footage of Kiely and a (shortly-lived) member of Destiny’s Child, Farrah Franklin, going head-to-head in the most catty, passive-aggressive fight over each other’s career accolades.

Their exchange appears to have taken place on some kind of series that never made it to air, and it’s a shame, because it’s comedy gold. Kiely starts throwing shade in the clip by pointing out, “I’ve been in two multi-platinum, successful groups and they weren’t disbanded.” Farrah fires back with, “And I’ve been in the biggest one and they’re still together.” However, Kiely makes a very important distinction that, “I know, but you weren’t in it,” referring to when Farrah got kicked out of Destiny’s Child early on in the group’s career. “I was in it,” Farrah insists. “I sold 19 million albums on ‘Say My Name.'” Kiely goes on to imply that it wasn’t exactly Farrah’s vocals that led to that record’s success. “I know but did you—” she says.

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“Did I what? Ask.” Farrah says. “Did you s—” Kiely trails off. “Absolutely, I did sing.” The footage then cuts to Farrah attempting to prove that she did, in fact, sing in the group, by belting out the hook of “Say My Name.” This viral back-and-forth has the Internet going crazy, with everyone wishing we could see more of this lost series.

Platinum-selling recording artist, Letoya Luckett, took to her Instagram account to announce that she and her husband, Tommicus Walker, are expecting their second child together. Back in Dec. 2017, the former Destiny’s Child star and the Dallas entrepreneur tied the knot, the following year the thriving couple revealed that they were expecting their first child together, before their precious daughter, Gianna Walker, was born on Jan. 4, 2019. Now, Luckett is embodying the Most High in a newly-released pregnancy reveal photo she posted to her Instagram on Thursday (March 19). 

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In the photo, Letoya Luckett elegantly stands atop a bed of rocks with her head held high, wearing a white dress, and cradling her baby bump while an exotic backdrop of palm trees, sandy beaches, and crashing waves create a beautiful setting for the photoshoot. In the caption, the “Not Anymore” singer wrote:

“Dear God, thank you. Growing & glowing in your light & love! Overjoyed & grateful for our little bundle,” then credited her husband for the photo credit. 

Walker followed suit posting the same gorgeous photo and captioning it with the Bible verse 1 Samuel 1:27, writing:

“1 Samuel 1:27: ‘I prayed for this child, and the Lord has granted me what I asked of him.'” The Dallas native and businessman continued, “Thank you God for blessing my Wife to carry our healthy child in Jesus’ name. P.S. I told ya’ll I was going back/back like a sprinter.”

Letoya Luckett and Tommicus Walker’s newest addition will bring their family to a total of five as they share one child and Luckett is a proud step-mother to Walker’s beautiful daughter, Madison Walker. 

With Luckett an official cast member to T.I. & Tiny: The Family & Friends Hustle and Walker continuing to take his entrepreneurship to the next level. They’ve secretly become one of the culture’s most beloved couples. Check out Letoya Luckett’s pregnancy announcement in the photo provided below. 

The Jordan Peele written and produced film, Candyman is set to officially arrive this summer with a haunting trailer for the film making its debut earlier today. With Nia DaCosta serving as the director, the film, as described by Jordan Peele, is a “spiritual sequel” to the 1992 film. Yahya Abdul-Mateen II, Teyonah Parris, Vanessa A. Williams, Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, Colman Domingo and Tony Todd making his return as the titular character.

Similar to how Us flipped Luniz’ “I Got 5 On It” as the haunting score to the trailer, DaCosta took another 90s favorite to flip into an eerie backdrop for the first official look for the film. Needless to say, one of your favorite childhdood songs will likely be playing in the back of your bloody nightmares of the urban legend.

“I really love gore,” DaCosta told reporters on Wednesday, Variety reports. “What’s fun about working with Jordan is our horror aesthetics are different. Jordan is really brilliant at not showing everything. My instinct is to do the exact opposite. … there’s a good amount of things you don’t want to see [in the movie].” Although she didn’t say much else, the amount of gore revealed in the trailer is enough of an indication of what we can expect from the forthcoming film.

Candyman arrives on June 12th. Watch the trailer below.  

Jagged Edge‘s very own Brandon Casey is denying Mattew Knowles’ claims that he and other members of his group were sexually harassing members of Destiny’s Child during a tour they went on together in the late ’90s. During a recent interview with VladTV, Beyonce‘s father revealed that his daughter and the other members of the all-girl group, who were minors at the time, were allegedly aggressively harassed by Jagged Edge who happened to be in their early twenties at the time. 

Around the 4:15 mark of his VladTV interview, Matthew Knowles states:

“On that tour, we just talked about with Jon B, (we regretted) on putting both Destiny’s Child and Jagged Edge on the same tour bus. Now, remember, the girls are minors. They’re minors. They’re 16-years-old, the guys are 21, 22-years-old. I have a fiduciary duty with minors, by the law, there’s a certain way I have to manage that.”

Knowles continued, “I got a call from Kelly and Beyonce saying that they were constantly being harassed by two of the members of Jagged Edge and I couldn’t have that. I literally had to put the guys off the bus in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. And that began all of this drama.”

After leaving Zari last night in Atlanta, TMZ caught up with Brandon Casey who wanted to clear the air on the situation as he believes Matthew Knowles’ claims are far-fetched and that he has too much respect for Beyonce and Kelly Rowland to participate in a war of words with Matt Knowles. During the short segment, the “Getting Over You” singer stated:

“It’s funny because someone called me about doing an interview about that. And honestly, I got too much respect for B, Kelly, (and) all the girls involved, you know what I mean? I have no business sitting here giving y’all some dirt on Matthew Knowles. It is whatever he say he it is. I think everybody involved knows what the truth is so, the truth speaks for itself.” 

The interviewer followed up with another question directly asking about his involvement with Knowles’ sexual misconduct accusations to which Casey replies, “Am I in jail? Come on, bro,” before making his way to his vehicle. 

With Jagged Edge still producing high-quality music and both Beyonce and Kelly Rowland thriving in their own respective fields. Hopefully, all parties involved can continue to co-exist as two entities that helped shape R&B music over the past two and a half decades. Check out Brandon Casey’s breif run-in with TMZ in the video provided below.