Beyonce Says Jackson Family is Lower Class
Posted January 1, 2009 
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Beyonce Knowles has created a hip hop beef with Janet Jackson - by suggesting that the Jackson clan is lower class. Beyonce allegedly said: “I grew up upper class. Private school. My dad had a Jaguar. We’re African-American and we work together as a family, so people assume we’re like The Jacksons. But I didn’t have parents using me to get out of a bad situation.”
It’s on! Janet Jackson, who barely knows Beyonce, is going to support her family to the fullest and confront the former Destiny’s child singer about the slam.
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