Mathew Knowles wants to set the record straight.
The longtime music executive said that he was already rich before Beyoncé took off.
Appearing on Outlaws with TS Madison, Matthews said that he and his former wife, Tina Knowles, were successful before Destiny’s Child became stars.
”For all of y’all that talk sh*t to think Beyoncé made me, no,” Knowles said. “We were millionaires when she was… four years old.”
“Me and my former wife, Miss Tina… we owned the number one Black hair salon in Houston in the ’80s,” Knowles. “Made our first million dollars” in 1985.
Eventually, Knowles founded his own company, Music World Entertainment. The company that ultimately launched and managed Destiny’s Child in partnership with Columbia Records.
“So now let’s move to the music industry,” Knowles said. “Destiny’s Child… having a deal with Columbia Records. So they were also signed to Music World Entertainment. My label.”
“Google everything I say,” he added. “Don’t trust what I’m saying. Go Google it.”
Knowles also claimed that he was “the number one sales rep in the world” for Xerox’s medical division. He would become “the first Black salesperson in America to sell MRI and CT scanners for Philips Medical Systems.”
Knowles then lauded the group’s immense accomplishments.
“Those ladies who are uber talented,” he said, “number one female group in the history of music.”
In a Vanity Fair interview back in 2013, Beyoncé shared the same sentiments.
“I didn’t grow up poor,” Beyoncé explained. “And I went to private school; we had a very nice house, cars, and a housekeeper.”
I wasn’t doing this because I didn’t have a choice. Or to support the family, or because I had to get out of a bad situation,” she continued. “I just was determined; this is what I wanted to do so bad.”
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