Anaheim, CA, September 1 – Desitny’s Child pulled its farewell tour, called "Destiny Fulfilled…And Lovin It", into Anaheim’s Arrowhead Pond, on Thursday. As the audience was filing in, there was a roar of excitement near the stage, and we found Kobe Bryant in the front row, with his daughter Natalia. And at the last moment before Beyonce, Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams took the stage, the arena again filled with screaming as Jay-Z made his way through the crowd and joined the group’s manager, and his girlfriend’s father, Matthew Knowles.

Chatting with Matthew, we discovered that it wasn’t an intentional diss at the previous night’s World Music Awards, where we waited in vain for the D.C. ladies to join us in the press room backstage. “What press room?” Matthew responded to our whine.