Beyoncé has indeed been in the business for most of her life—and her new album is all about the freedom she has earned after giving herself to her fans for the last 15 years.

“Now I’m in my 30s, and those children that grew up listening to me have grown up, and I always felt like it was my responsibility to be aware of kids and their parents and all these generations,” the platinum-selling superstar muses in “Self-Titled Part 5. Honesty,” the latest installment, exclusively obtained by E! News, of her documentary chronicling the making of her pioneering Beyoncé.

“And I felt like, in a sense, I could not express everything,” she continues, radiant in a plain white T-shirt and jean shorts. “I’ve done so many things in my life, in my career, that I feel like at this point I’ve earned the right to be me and to express any and every side of myself.”

Case in point: The black and white video for “Rocket,” in which a lingerie-clad Bey most certainly comes into her own.

“What I love about this song is, it takes you through this journey,” she says over clips of the sexy video. “You’re flirting and you’re talking all of your arrogant s–t. Then you climax, and then you have your cigarette.”
But while “Rocket” seems to be about one thing, “this song actually is about singing from the heart, and harmonies and adlibs and arrangement,” Beyoncé says.

“One of the things I love about this project,” she continues, as the featurette cuts to her working at the piano, “how willing all these incredible artists were to write together. Justin Timberlake, Miguel and myself all worked together to write ‘Rocket.'”

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Most of the time we just listen to a B song and we don’t even imagine how fun she had making and recording it. In this third part of her “Self-Titled” video compilation, we can watch Beyoncé and Jay-Z recording “Drunk In Love” in the studio and it music video. Also, It details Beyoncé’s mind-set and artistic vision throughout the making of the entire project.

Make sure to buy “BEYONCÉ” visual album!

While enjoying hookah in the studio, Drake shows us some candid footage of himself and James Fauntleroy working on “Girls Love Beyoncé.” Check out the “Say My Name” sampled track above.

Producer Hit-Boy posted a video on Youtube breaking down his production on Beyoncé’s ‘Bow Down’ track. Really cool to see a recreation of how this beat came to life!

Update: The video has been removed by Hit-Boy.

It looks like Beyonce is back at it. The 4 singer was captured in the studio with none other than Mr. Carter himself. Writer and artist Jo’zzy from Timbaland’s crew posted a picture of the couple hard at work in the studio.

“THIS IS WHO I’M LOOKING AT RIGHT NOW! JAY Z AND BEYONCE #BLESSED TO BE HERE,” she wrote.

She was later forced to remove the tweet and photo after getting overrun by Beyonce’s fans.

In addition to working with Timbaland and crew on her next album Miguel also revealed that he spent some time in the studio with the singer.

He posted  pictures of them and told MTV News, “I heard it from my team, and I was like, ‘Are you serious?’ ‘Are you sure?’ ‘Are we talking about the Beyoncé? And after taking a second to confirm and double confirm and triple confirm, I’m excited to hear the direction of her new material, and hopefully come up with something that’s really special and really showcases her perspective.”

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