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Mary J. Blige sometimes refers to herself in the third person, which you … more »
Mary J. Blige, Stronger With …
Would Mary J. Blige’s sumptuously harmonized “Hood Love… more »
Mary J. Blige, What’s t…
Mary J. Blige and executive producer Sean “Puffy” Combs didn… more »
Mary J. Blige, My Life…
Both singer and sound were more confident on this second album from Mary … more »
Mary J. Blige, Share My World…
The case could be made for every Mary J. Blige album after her first two … more »
Mary J. Blige, The Tour…
Working a Los Angeles crowd with her tectonic voice and hotly responsive … more »
Mary J. Blige, Mary
Lauryn Hill wrote and produced the wonderfully lackadaisical “All T… more »
Mary J. Blige, No More Drama…
Some kind of distance — if not yet sobriety — allowed Mary J.… more »
Mary J. Blige, Love & Li…
Mary J. Blige has said that the moment she got serious about getting clea… more »
Mary J. Blige, The Breakthrou…
After three straight albums of commercial decline, Geffen pushed for a Ma… more »
Mary J. Blige, Growing Pains…
Each Mary J. Blige album in the ’00s after The Breakthrough sold le… more »
Beat Happening, You Turn Me O…
Stretching out their strum-and-drone into something like Unrest's tra… more »
Heavenly, Le Jardin De Heaven…
Defense Exhibit A in the case for "twee," this 1992 album is as tentative… more »
Beat Happening, Jamboree…
The beat music that longs for the '60s before drugs, and love before … more »
Atmosphere, The Family Sign…
Slug has been rapping about family since 1999, when he sampled himself go… more »
Atmosphere, The Family Sign (…
Slug has been rapping about family since 1999, when he sampled himself go… more »
Busy Signal, D.O.B.
There's really no Northern pop equivalent to Busy Signal, the Jamaica… more »
AG, Everything’s Berri…
Maybe it took an AG, whose '90s hits with Showbiz rocked more than a … more »
KRS-One & Buckshot, Surv…
"I only speak when I have to speak," raps KRS-One on Survival Skills. If … more »
Heartless Bastards, The Mount…
Heartless Bastards have a simple, archetypal gravity. They're like a … more »

