Destiny's Child was an American R&B girl group whose final and best-known line-up comprised Beyoncé Knowles, Kelly Rowland, and Michelle Williams. Formed in 1990 in Houston, Texas, Destiny's Child members began their musical endeavors as Girl's Tyme comprising, among others, Knowles, Rowland, LaTavia Roberson and LeToya Luckett. After years of limited success, they were signed in 1996 to Columbia Records as Destiny's Child. Destiny's Child was launched into mainstream recognition following the 1999 release of their best-selling second album, The Writing's on the Wall, which contained the number-one singles "Bills, Bills, Bills" and "Say My Name". Despite critical and commercial success, the group was plagued by internal conflict and legal turmoil, as Roberson and Luckett attempted to split from the group's manager Mathew Knowles, citing favoritism of Knowles and Rowland.
Both Roberson and Luckett were soon replaced with Williams and Farrah Franklin; however, in 2000, Franklin left, leaving the group as a trio. Their third album, Survivor, which contains themes the public interpreted as a channel to the group's experience, contains the worldwide hits "Independent Women", "Survivor" and "Bootylicious". In 2002, they announced a hiatus and re-united two years later for the release of their fourth and final studio album, Destiny Fulfilled (2004). Destiny's Child has sold more than 60 million records worldwide to date.Billboard magazine ranks the group as one of the greatest musical trios of all time, the ninth most successful artist/band of the 2000s, and placed the group 68th in its All-Time Hot 100 Artists list in 2008.
Destiny's Child is the self-titled debut album of R&B group Destiny's Child, released by Columbia Records in February 17, 1998. It featured the singles "No, No, No" and "With Me". It won Best R&B/Soul Album of the Year at the Soul Train Lady of Soul Awards, but due to both singles having a remix ("Part 2") as well as having an original version ("Part 1"), all singles preceded the album.
The album spent twenty six weeks on the U.S. Billboard 200 chart. In the UK, it debuted in the top 75 of the albums chart on the strength of its lead single, "No, No, No". The album did go on to sell 1 million copies worldwide, and was re-packaged and re-released in several countries after the success of the follow-up album, The Writing's on the Wall. The album was met with mostly positive critical acclaim.
John Bush of the website Allmusic graded the album with four out of five stars and wrote that "Destiny's Child isn't quite just another debut album from an R&B girl group... Their voices sound beautiful together. Still, much of the album sounds indistinguishable from all the other female groups out there.
[Chorus:]
Ladies leave yo man at home
The club is full of ballas and
They pockets full grown
And all you fellas leave yo girl
With her friends
Cause its 11:30 and the club is
Jumpin, jumpin
[Hook 1:]
So you say you've got a girl?
Yeah it's true, you got a man,
But the party aint gon stop
So lets make it hot hot!
[Verse 1 Beyonce:]
last weekend you stayed at home
Alone and lonely
Couldnt find yo man
He was chillin with his homies
This weekend you goin out
If he try to stop you, you goin off
You gotcha hair done and your nails done too
And your outfit and your fendi shoes
You parlaying at the hottest spot tonight
You're gonna find the brothas
Rollin in the Lexus, trucks and Hummers
[Repeat Hook 1]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Repeat Hook 1]
[Verse 2 Beyonce:]
Call your boys
Cause tonight you're not gon stay at home
So tell your girl she aint coming tonight you're goin solo
Cut her off cause she talks some noise
You know you got the right to get your party on
So get your hair cut and your car washed too
Lookin' like a star in your Armani suit
You need to look your best cause
You're turnin heads tonight
you're gonna find a sexy chica
thats gon dance all night if ya wanna
[Repeat Hook]
[Repeat Chorus]
[Hook 2:]
Sexy women do your dance
Fly ladies work yo man
Ballas time to act a clown
We can get down now
[Hook 3:]
Bounce with me, bounce bounce
Bounce papis work
Shake baby shake shake shake work it work it
Twist baby twist twist twist
You better dip that thang
[Repeat Hook 2]
[Repeat Hook 3]