DESTINY'S CHILD
written by Chauncy Jackson

It has been a relationship marked by turmoil. The women of Destiny’s Child, who grew up in Texas and scored their first top-10 hit with “No, No, No” were approaching the first mountaintop on the journey that was their career when the rumor began: Destiny’s Child was breaking up.

Beyoncé Knowles explained at the time that that two of the members of the group wanted to fire Beyoncé’s father Matthew Knowles, who was the group’s manager. Beyoncé and Kelly Rowland received a letter indicating that the other two members also wanted Matthew Knowles to return the money he had made while acting as the group’s manager. “We were just nominated for Grammys,” Beyoncé Knowles said. “We had just went double platinum. So we were at the peak position of our career at the time. At least we thought we were. So I guess the ladies felt like, since we were at the peak, they could ask for anything and get anything. So Kelly and I basically told them we wished them the best, we love ‘em. God Bless you. And we found two new ladies and within a week we were shooting the ‘Say My Name’ video, and the next week they were learning all the routines.”