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leaves. and they came to my door. and somebody actually turned the knob. so i said, stand back, stand four feet back because i'm going to shoot now. boom! boom! >> and then you heard -- >> that's exactly what i heard. >> don't mess with maya angelou. from the cnn world headquarters in atlanta, i'm don lemon. good night. look, i've only done two albums in ten years. >> he must somehow flip on a switch and say music time. >> that's the way i really look at it. what does the next decade mean for me? >> he always has an eye and an ear for what's next. >> i don't want to put anything out that i feel like is something i don't love. >> he's the ultimate showman and he's a star.
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>> you just don't get that every day. you have to wait for it. i'm ready. ♪ justin timberlake was ready. for one of the biggest years of his career. which is really saying something for a mouseketeer. turned teen heartthrob, turned solo smash. ♪ this spring, he dropped his first album in seven years. ♪ let me show you a few things >> backed by a slew of promotion and carefully planned performances. on jimmy fallon's show, it was the history of rap. ♪ ♪ i got you on the check >> and on the highest rated "saturday night live" he was at times savvy.
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♪ i show you how to do this >> and silly. ♪ veg out ♪ veg out >> the music, the moves, the money. that's the justin timberlake experience. >> hello, everybody. my name is justin timberlake. and i'm going to sing "please don't go, girl." >> long before the millions of fans and mega stardom, there was 9-year-old justin timberlake, a small-town boy with big-time dreams. ♪ please don't go girl ♪ it would ruin the whole world ♪ >> people in the music industry always talk about this thing or that thing, but he definitely
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always had that thing. always. >> best friend trey grew up with justin in millington, tennessee, just outside of memphis. >> memphis is a very, very, very musical town. ♪ >> everything revolves around music. from the time we were little kids, you go to dinner and the bar next door has a live band playing, so i feel like memphis brings it out in you. >> whether it was singing a gospel duty in this rare early video. ♪ more than amazing ♪ that's what jesus is ♪ that's what my savior is ♪ since my baby left me >> or during a charity event channeling one of memphis' own, the king of rock and roll. ♪ i've been so lonely baby
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>> the grandson of a preacher and son of a choir director never passed up a chance to perform. ♪ >> oh, look at that. >> bob westbrook gave justin his first singing lessons when he was 8. >> what did he have. what was that star quality? >> just his mannerism and his charisma, the hair, the whole bit. the natural stage field. you see what he's got now? it was there. >> from hollywood -- >> when justin was just 11, his talents landed him on "star search" the nationally televised talent show. back then justin only went by his first and middle name. >> from millington, tennessee, welcome justin randall. ♪ ♪ called my doctor on the telephone ♪ ♪ tell me doctor ♪ something's wrong >> the young singer with the
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ten-gallon hat seemed comfortable in the spotlight. ♪ i can't eat ♪ i can't sleep ♪ it's turning me every which way but loose ♪ >> but in the end -- >> justin randall receives 3 1/4. >> his performance failed to win over the "star search" judges. speaking to larry king live in 2001, justin made light of his early loss. >> did you win? >> no, lost the first round. >> if you lose on "star search" you never make it. >> there you go. >> with his mother's unwavering support, justin continued chasing his dream. >> lynn was very much a loving mother and wanted justin to have every opportunity that he could and to take his talent wherever he wanted to take it. ♪ >> shortly after losing "star
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search," justin heard about an open casting call for the disney tv show "the mickey mouse club." >> i remember if i would have won on "star search" i never would have seen that audition, so it's funny how stuff works out, huh? >> i can imagine that would to have been a huge deal when he landed that. >> it was a huge deal. >> a huge deal, because now justin would be singing, dancing and acting as part of a who's who of teenage heartthrobs, including christina aguilera, ryan gosling, jaycee jarzay and one sparkling mouseketeer that caught justin's eye -- britney spears. chuck yeager tutored him and the other child stars on the show. these are your kids. >> yes.
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>> show me who's who. >> we start here with christina aguilera, already showing a bare midriff, britney spears, justin timberlake -- >> with his arm around her already. >> yes. ♪ now it's time to say good-bye ♪ >> but just two years after joining the show, the spotlight suddenly vanished when "the mickey mouse club" was canceled. and justin had to return to his sleepy hometown in tennessee. >> you know, for him, it was tough. he would step out and go and experience new culture, and the new fashion trends, you know, things like new hairstyles. where we grew up, people are not open to change, you know, they don't like change. >> i can't imagine people picking on justin, kids picking on him. >> you know, when you're a boy and you live in the south, it's tough. it's tough to be a boy in the south.
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but it also i think prepared him for what was to come in the future with having tough skin. coming up, justin leaves his hometown after receiving a phone call that would change his life forever. >> when i heard him sing, i mean, you know, it was just unbelievable. if you're looking to go to school, you deserve more than just flexibility and convenience. so here's a few reasons to choose university of phoenix. our average class size is only 14 students.
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tapped by lou pearlman, the successful founder of the backstreet boys, to put together another boy band. an agent sent chris a tape. >> started listening. i was like, wow, this kid can sing, and i looked at the head shot, justin timberlake, why does that sound familiar? and it was like, he was on "the mickey mouse club." this guy would want to be in my band? >> was there any kind of, well, he's really young. was there in thought about that? >> there was, there was. ♪ i've been so lonely, baby >> but when i heard him sing, it was just unbelievable. his voice was just -- especially at that age, it was so mature. he had so much control over it. this kid's so unbelievable. i'm going to at least try. i'm going to make an awkward phone call and see if i can get this to work. >> it did work. the group, which would include ex-mouseketeer j.c. chasez, and, joey fatone and lance bass
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called themselves 'n sync. >> my mother came up with the name. the first time we sang together, she said you sound really in sync. ding ding ding. >> justin and his mom moved into a house in orlando. they recorded their music in a secret hideaway nearby. it's almost like we're in the fun house. >> right? that's kind of what it was. it's got like every luxury you could imagine. >> life for justin in the house. >> we had already done "the mickey mouse club." the difference was during the daytime if we didn't have anything to do, justin would have to be in the dining room with his tutor, you know, taking classes, doing school. >> six hours a day? >> yeah. he would outwork anybody. >> driven, driven, driven, but he's the hardest-working person i know. >> the hard work would eventually pay off. after two years of relentless
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touring overseas, justin and 'n sync hit it big in the u.s. with a disney concert special, filling in as a last-minute replacement for the backstreet boys. ♪ how can it be >> it just so happened the guys were in orlando and ready. when that call was made to disney to say, hey, we can fill that spot, they rose to the occasion and went and did it. that was a big moment for us. ♪ when i look into your eyes >> 'n sync became the new teenage heartthrobs. ♪ god must have spent a little more time on you ♪ >> we had a good time. >> but behind the success, distrust was brewing. between 'n sync and lou pearlman. >> when you're getting up at 5:00 in the morning going on the radio and spending 24 hours on the job and someone else is at home going to the steakhouses
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and making 75% of the money, all of a sudden it's like, wait, something's got to change. >> we were generating so much revenue and the stuff. where is all that money? >> perlman had taken 'n sync to the top of the charts. in 1999, when the group wanted to search record labels, pearlman sued, threatening to take the band's name and block them from performing. 'n sync countersued. >> it was scary that if we separated from lou, we would lose johnny wright and all of our connections, lose our record label, we would lose all these things and end up back at square one and singing, you know, at the downtown high school. >> in the end, lawsuits were settled out of court. >> right now it's basically about the fans and our music, and we're so proud that all our fans came out to support us. >> signed to a new record label, justin and 'n sync turned their attention to the release of
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their second album, aptly titled "no strings attached." ♪ baby bye-bye bye ♪ ♪ it ain't no lie ♪ baby bye-bye bye >> it's really cool! [ screaming ] >> in the first week alone, "no strings attached" sold 2.4 million copies, making it the fastest-selling album of all time. ♪ much better ♪ once you're gone >> despite the growing frenzy, the growing bank account, and the growing adoration of fans -- >> how much do you like 'n sync? >> a lot. a lot. a lot. >> those close to justin saying his feet never left the ground. >> you know, when people get this big in this business, sometimes they get a big head, and their entourages start to
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grow. they become in a situation where they're unattainable and you can't talk to them anymore. he's the guy that's still approachable. >> justin's apparent humility seemed only matched by his talent and drive. >> i always felt like i was mozart's older brother. he's so good at what he does. he's so -- he hits on every cylinder all the time. >> it's like you're describing a savant. >> that's exactly what he is. he's a savant. >> it wasn't only justin's talent in the spotlight. so was his love life. >> britney spears and you. this is "larry king live" we don't fool around. >> we are dating. >> from the moment they confirmed the relationship to the moment it ended, britney and justin were a tabloid dream. despite it all, justin remained focused on the music, taking the lead in crafting the group's third album "celebrity."
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♪ ever wonder why ♪ this music gets you high ♪ it takes you on a ride >> which included a lead single that seemed to take aim at 'n sync's detractors who derisively labeled their music pop. ♪ ♪ sick and tired of hearing all these people talk about ♪ ♪ what's the deal with this pop life ♪ ♪ and when is it going to fade out ♪ >> as a member of 'n sync, he had done the unthinkable, he made liking a boy band cool. coming up, from boy to man, justin sets out on a solo career and finds himself at the center of controversy. >> it was definitely a big emotional roller coaster. families and businesses is our business. we've reduced taxes and lowered costs to save businesses more than two billion dollars to grow jobs, cut middle class income taxes to the lowest rate in sixty years,
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it was 2002, 'n sync had sold millions of albums. justin timberlake was a bona fide heartthrob. but bandmate chris kirkpatrick says life for the band was all business. this is the compound. >> this is the compound. we'd all try to learn our instruments better than the next guy. everybody just worked to that goal. >> it wasn't a crazy house. it was a focused house? >> it wasn't crazy at all. it wasn't like you would think there's girls over all the time, there's this -- this was work -- >> no girls? no -- well -- >> maybe a couple? >> honestly as crazy as it sounds, it wasn't that type of vibe. >> with his fans, justin had a vibe all his own. >> i think there's an appeal in him, he's been perceived as a relationship guy.
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justin timberlake's female fans were wearing t-shirts saying, mrs. timberlake, i want to be mrs. timberlake. they're not saying i want to be your one-night stand. >> if he was smooth on stage. >> this is triple platinum. >> he seemed even smoother in the studio. is it fair to say that justin is a perfectionist? >> he is a perfectionist, but there's no work involved for it. it's really just boom, boom, done. >> one-take timberlake, right? >> like 16 hours in the garage, yeah, one-take timberlake. >> he got together with one of his friends and they created the song "gone." ♪ you're gone ♪ you're gone >> justin's writing skills were getting noticed by the biggest names in the industry, like michael jackson. >> michael's people came and they said, hey, i think michael wants to record that record. i looked at justin and i was
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like, you're not giving that record away. i knew how important that record was to him and what it meant for him as a writer to finally get some respect, making a statement saying, i'm a writer, too. >> we're very, very excited to be here. >> in 2002, he launched the solo career that would define his next decade. ♪ >> everybody was kind of figuring out, what will we do for the next six months? and justin tapped me and he said i've had this music inside me for quite a while. i'm going to take this time and go make a record. ♪ you were my sun >> that album "justified" was hot enough to land his solo act at the super bowl halftime show. but when a, quote, wardrobe malfunction exposed janet jackson's bare breast -- >> he apparently committed the crime of the century. >> it was very hairy.
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very controversial. that was coming off the thrill of performing at the super bowl. you have airplanes flying around l.a. saying, convict justin and janet. >> it was completely, completely regrettable. >> a swift apology put justin back on track, and his star continued to rise. his career would expand from music to movies, including -- >> i'm sean parker. >> "the social network." >> you know what's cool? $1 billion. >> two business ventures. for starters, a clothing line called william rast with trace ayala. >> we build this brand. >> was he hands on? >> yeah. too hands-on. >> you're like, step back, bro. >> yeah, but he's hands on, he rivets buttons, stitching, he was definitely very, very hands-on. >> add to the business ventures two grammys for the man who brought sexy back. ♪ i'm bringing sexy back
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♪ them other boys don't know how to act ♪ >> even an emmy for this guy on "snl." >> but best of all. >> i'm ready. >> justin would likely say finding the real mrs. timberlake. >> he was always into jessica. >> trace was the best man when justin and actress jessica biel were married in october. >> it was always a celebrity crush. >> really? >> oh, yeah, yeah. >> you would hear him order something for her, and like in the milled of of a discussion of a city tour, something sparked in him where he felt the need he had to do something special. >> a new wife, and a new album, with his old friend timba. >> he'll be playing something, and justin is sitting there in the corner, he starts picking up
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on it and he'll run over and go, do this and do this. it's crazy watching them work. >> they had basically four weeks. the thought pattern was we'll make it for the summer, put it up for the summer, and in to days, they made 20 songs. >> 20 songs released in two parts, and feature a notable collaboration between justin and jay-z. ♪ no papers >> obviously there was a chemistry that happened to make suit and tie" and it became the leadoff record. >> show you how to do this. ♪ as long as i got my suit and tie ♪ ♪ i'm going to leave it on the floor tonight ♪ >> by working with jay-z, he's getting an artist as well formed as he is, and in a way, it is a grown-up approach to singing and rapping together on the same song. ♪ >> he makes what folks around my way called grown folks music. >> exactly.
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she wowed the world with an explosive performance that quieted controversy. >> there's nobody else that's singing like she is. there's nobody else who's giving the energy she gives on stage. >> a path to superstardom that started with a shy little girl. ♪ >> beyonce was really a quiet kid, kind of to herself.
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>> whose father launched her career. >> beyonce automatically stood out. everybody would say that. >> r&b royalty, fashion icon and now a new role -- mother. beyonce as you've never seen her from the people who know her best. >> i barack hussein obama do solemnly swear -- >> inauguration days for president obama with beyonce singing the national anthem. ♪ whose broad stripes and bright stars ♪ ♪ through the perilous fight >> it was a moving moment.
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>> every time i look at her, singing for the president and performing worldwide, and then i think, that was my baby. >> darla johnson was beyonce's childhood dance teacher. >> i know that she's beyonce. i know that she's worldwide and everybody know her and everybody scream, et cetera, but even when i see her, she's still my beyonce. ♪ >> a proud moment that didn't last long. >> did beyonce fake it at the inauguration? >> this was a question on a lot of lips in washington today. >> beyonce and her lip-synch stunner. >> did she or didn't she? >> did she? didn't she? and does it even matter? this was beyonce's response. posted to instagram. online and on air. >> i'm saying leave beyonce
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alone. >> was it live or on tape? >> she became a hot topic of conversation. >> i'm not surprised that she did lip-synch. >> i still don't think she did, though. >> i just think people think there just has to be something else behind who she is. >> gail mitchell writes for "billboard" magazine. >> that no one is really that nice, no one is really that gracious. maybe that's why people attacked so hard with the whole inauguration lip-synching. >> it turned out beyonce had used a prerecorded track. >> would you guys mind standing? >> but at a press conference ten days later -- ♪ o say can you see by the dawn's early light ♪ >> beyonce silenced her critics. the punch line? >> any questions? >> not likely. >> matthew knowles is beyonce's father.
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and for decades managed her career. ♪ >> at 15, 16 years old, you don't quite yet have the maturity to quite understand or how to take criticism. >> i messed up. >> no, that's cool. >> she's gotten older, now she's a grown ass woman. so she understands it. >> beyonce feels this is her time. >> i feel like 30 is the ideal age because you're mature enough to know who you are and to have your boundaries and your standards and not be afraid of being too polite. but you're young enough to be a young woman. i'm very aware of who i am. and i feel great.
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>> for beyonce knowles carter, lately it has been one hell of a run. back in the summer of 2011, there was a tummy rub at the video music awards. by the next january, the singer, dancer, actor, filmmaker, entrepreneur and fashion icon was also mom. and with the birth of blue ivy came a new burst of creativity. >> i think as a new mom, you get a renewed sense of strength of purpose and whatever. i think that's gelled with her and having blue ivy. >> next thing you know it's super bowl. it's just, you know, one, two, three, let's go. >> beyonce emerged from a four-month break ready for reinvention. >> i think as an artist, you have to constantly reinvent yourself. >> june ambrose is a stylist to husband jay-z and a friend of the couple. >> you're constantly under construction, always working to be relevant, always thinking of different ways to be a comeback and not compromise who you are
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as a woman, as a person. >> and there could be no bigger stage for her next act. than the halftime show at the super bowl. >> the crowd's reaction when she stepped out on stage during halftime was now the real show is going to start. it was like, i felt like the football team was her opening act. ♪ >> unmatched energy and an eye-popping look. >> she was a superhero. it was scantily clad. it was tough, it was salacious. >> beyonce has evolved into this being that you just expect greatness from to the point where great isn't even good enough anymore. >> pop star neo collaborates with beyonce. >> there's nobody else that's singing like she is. there's nobody else giving the energy that she gives on stage and much less doing it at the same time. and doing both well at the same time. there's nobody else doing it. ♪ >> for 14 minutes, singing live and backed completely by female artists, beyonce lived out one of her dreams.
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>> i definitely feel that it is my job to empower women, and i remember having this dream that my band was all females and i told my male band at the time, i'm sorry, guys, y'all are so talented, but you're not women. >> a coincidental power failure provided the perfect metaphor for the lights-out performance. how do you think she did? >> how about exceptional. it's difficult because she didn't have a long time to rehearse. you've got to be on, and the world, i think 140 million people watched her. >> does it get any better than that? >> i would be just as proud as if it was ten people. >> a new album, a huge world tour. beyonce is ready for the next big thing. >> 2013, what's new anymore. got to say hats off to her as an artist, just really trying to thrive for whatever is next.
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♪ before she was the diva, before she was the queen bee, she was just beyonce giselle knowles, a little girl in suburban houston. >> beyonce was really a quiet kid, kind of to herself. >> hoping to get beyonce to come out of their shell, matthew and tina knowles sent their daughter to this dance studio. >> harder, harder. >> when you first saw her and she first came in, i mean, did you even notice her? >> what i did notice about her is that she was very shy. you ask her what's your name?
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beyonce knowles. you could barely hear her. i said, can you say it for me again, sweetheart? beyonce knowles. >> but on the dance floor -- >> beyonce would dance so hard that she would lose her costume pieces, sometimes her hat would come off because she was fierce. >> it was here that beyonce created her now famous alter ego. now, that's sasha fierce. that's who that is. >> when she got on stage she became a different person. >> but no one knew beyonce had a secret. >> i hummed a song and she finished it. and it blew me away. and i stopped and i told her, sing it again. she wouldn't sing it again. she was very quiet, very shy. and i promised her a dollar. she sung it again and i was floored. her parents came to pick her up and i said she can sing. she can really sing. >> a multimillion-dollar star was born. >> i remember her sitting on the floor and i would tell her,
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you're going to be so big. and i remember she was looking up at me and i said you watch. ♪ >> at local talent pageants, the pint-sized powerhouse quickly made a name for herself. >> before beyonce's name was even called, the whole audience was rocking her name, sounding her name. beyonce! beyonce! beyonce! ♪ >> judy took beyonce to many of these pageants. >> she always won the competitions. we may have had 500-plus junior talents and she always stood out. >> thank you. >> adorable. now, are these all the trophies she won from doing the talent shows and the pageants? >> these are from the pageants, yeah. >> yet no one imagined that at
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this young age beyonce would already face the ugly side of fame. >> in school, you know, there was some jealousy because she was beginning to be a local star. so there was some jealousy of girls and they said some mean things to her. >> but the bullying didn't stop her. fame came knocking at the door of her mother's salon. >> some ladies came and said you know what, en vogue was hot at the time. they said we would like to form a younger version of en vogue and we would like to have beyonce be the lead singer of the group. >> girls time was born. beyonce teamed up with a group of six girls, including her cousin kelly rowland. >> beyonce was kind of the pilot of the group. if they got tired, she would encourage them. i call her the energizer bunny because beyonce keep going and going. ♪ i don't care >> from the local spotlight to the national stage.
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>> girls tyme ended up going to "star search," ended up competing against some 40-year-olds. >> a perfect score, the challenger, girls, t tyme, receives -- >> they lose, they're crying their heart out. i go over to ed mcmahon and i said mr. mcmahon, the girls are crying, i'm a dad. what do i do? he said well, i know those who lose go back and rededicate, refocus. >> and that's what matthew knowles had them do. in 1995, he resigned from his corporate job at xerox and managed the girls full time. >> i couldn't look them in the eye and say, give it your all if i wasn't doing that. >> you taught that lesson, this is how you dedicate yourself to this craft? >> yes. and it was difficult. >> all they wanted was a major record deal. and that meant lots of hard work. here's some rare footage of beyonce working on some early recordings.
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>> duane wiggins was their producer. >> beyonce automatically stood out. everyone would say that because she simply was a very focused young lady. >> that focus paid off with a big record contract. michael maldin was an executive at columbia records. >> we could tell she had pipes and we could tell, again, they were young pipes. that's what you want to do is try to find groups that you can put in the incubator and try to develop. >> the group settled on a name, destiny's child, and the hits started coming. like "no, no, no." >> all here for you. >> destiny's child was on the express ride to the top. until -- >> what happened was the girls wanted new management, so that was pretty tough for beyonce
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because her father is manager. >> the two members that wanted beyonce's father out were quickly replaced. >> beyonce was the one who got the black eye for it. very, very, very unjustly. >> beyonce became public enemy number one with fans and the press. even being called a blood-sucking diva. the criticism was nothing new for the girl who was bullied at age 9 for her talent. but now 10 years older, beyonce was stronger. her song said it. she was a survivor. ♪ i'm a survivor i'm not going to stop ♪ ♪ i'm going to work harder >> the publicity from the scandal was seemingly priceless. people couldn't get enough of destiny's child. by the 2001 grammys, destiny's child seemed unstoppable. or at least that's what everyone thought.
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give it here. big energy. let's go. give it here. dance like a star. >> listen carefully. >> harder, harder.
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>> darla johnson's girls, the ones she calls the next generation of beyonces, are dancing to "crazy in love." >> "crazy in love," i love it. >> don't we all wish we were? >> crazy in love. >> it's the first single off beyonce's very first solo album, "dangerously in love" and it's the song that launches beyonce as a major solo superstar and leads to the end of destiny's child. >> i knew that that was going to take her soaring. >> and it did. >> it did. ♪ >> beyonce's part two, the solo career, begins with jay-z. he's in her first solo hit and he's in her personal life. from their dating to their wedding to baby blue, the public doesn't learn a single detail
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until beyonce is ready to spill it. >> so let me show you this. >> an approach she learned from her father. >> i'm not going to talk about beyonce the mom and -- >> what about papa g, the granddad? what do you like to do with blue? >> i'm not going to talk about that. you get nothing. >> i get nothing. >> you get nothing. >> this is beyonce -- >> it's a philosophy that beyonce would go on to apply to both her professional and private lives. nobody learns anything about "b" nobody learns anything about b until she's ready to tell them. well, let's talk about "dangerously in love." the album did really well. >> yes. >> that first solo album debuted at number one and went on to sell more than 11 million copies. >> the album did really well. and what am i thinking? tour? >> studio, tour, more singles, now. >> normally when the album does
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very well, you do a tour. >> there's a small tour, beyonce's first as a solo artist, followed by three more solo albums and a total of five solo number one hits, including 2008's "single ladies." movies -- >> because i'm foxy cleopatra and i'm a whole lot of woman. >> a fashion line. >> my mother would make all these beautiful clothes and after so many years, my fans, they were like, okay, we have to buy these clothes somewhere. ♪ oh, yeah >> and numerous endorsements including a new one with pepsi that will pay beyonce to advertise its products and fund some of her creative projects. >> i think it's a huge deal. i think it says a lot about her as a brand, about her music, and that pepsi would do something like that for a black female music artist, that's tremendous.
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>> it's a deal that demonstrates she's as good a businesswoman as she is a performer. >> my father was such an incredible entrepreneur, and any and everything he said he would have, he worked until he had it. and he taught me there's no such thing as no. >> my personal opinion is she watched. she watched her dad. she watched her mom. her mom ran a hair salon. she's got this business savvy that a lot of people either -- a lot of creative types, they're one side. >> those two sides of beyonce are more important than ever. she's now on her own. two years ago, she announced her father would no longer be her manager. i wonder where can she or where does she go from here? >> i think that's a question you should ask beyonce. i think she has the ability, the
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talent, the passion, fans that she can quite frankly go wherever she would like to go. >> where she's going next is the documentary world. she is the director of the story of her life that aired last month on hbo. >> power is not given to you. you have to take it. you're playing a part in a much bigger show. and that's what life is. >> we learned more about the personal details she usually withholds, such as the miscarriage she suffered prior to blue ivy. but even before the documentary aired, she was becoming a little freer with personal information, thanks to a large and active tumblr site. >> if they're posting it, you're supposed to know it. if they're not posting it, you ain't supposed to know it. >> what the online and documentary projects have in common is that beyonce controls the content. after the doc, there's a world tour.
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mrs. carter? that's beyonce confirming four years later that she's married to jay-z whose given name is shawn carter. and details on the next album, writer producer neo promises whatever music she produces in the future will push the edges creatively. >> she's not afraid to take a risk, not afraid to take a shot. she's not afraid to do this. if you hit, you hit. if you don't, you don't. >> but aside from admitting to some recording sessions with beyonce, he won't say any more. >> i'm not going to be the one to let the cat out of the bag. y'all ain't fixing to get me in trouble, no, sir. nobody has the patience to wait for the greatness. they just want everything quick, quick, quick. if you take the time to wait for it, it makes it that much better when you actually get it. >> wait for it, world. the tour is coming. her website is promoting it. the rest, she'll tell you when she's good and ready.

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