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Mary J. Blige Is the 2024 Urban One Honors Entertainment Icon
On Tuesday, the "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul", Mary J. Blige was announced as an award recipient at the upcoming 2024 Urban One Honors. She'll be joined by other notable figures such as Dionne Warwick and Frankie Beverly.
Mary J. Blige To Host New Talk Show ‘The Wine Down’ On BET
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Rodin Eckenroth / Getty Mary J. Blige is taking the airwaves by storm as she’s poised to have her own talk show on BET next year thanks to a recent partnership deal. According to reports, the star R&B singer has signed a deal with BET to produce scripted and unscripted content through her company, Blue Butterfly Productions. The first project from this deal coming into fruition is a new talk show called The Wine Down. The synopsis of the unscripted talk show has Blige as the host connecting with various guests from the worlds of entertainment, politics, sports and social media over a good bottle of wine. Related Stories “Throughout her legendary career, Mary has blazed trails to become a global superstar. With Blue Butterfly, Mary develops awe-inspiri...
Mary J. Blige Announces 23-City Good Morning Gorgeous Tour
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: BPC / Black Promoters Collective Fresh off celebrating her recognition as one of Time magazine’s icons listed in “The 100 Most Influential People of 2022” and the recipient of the 2022 “Billboard ICON Award,” the undisputed Queen of Hip Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige, announces her Good Morning Gorgeous tour presented by Hologic in partnership with The Black Promoters Collective (BPC). The GRAMMY Award-winning and Oscar-nominated Blige will perform in 23 cities with special guests, platinum-selling, GRAMMY Award-winning artist Ella Mai and platinum-selling rising star Queen Naija beginning on Saturday, September 17, in Greensboro, NC, and ending on Saturday, October 29 in Atlantic City, NJ. Related Stories The Good Morning Gorgeous tour tickets are a...
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, 50 Cent, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar Tear the House Down During Super Bowl Halftime Show
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar took the Super Bowl LVI stage during halftime and unsurprisingly tore the house down. They stampeded through a slew of their greatest hits, with Dre and Snoop serving as the de facto emcees. The Super Bowl Halftime Show was befitting for the Big Game, which took place at Los Angeles’ SoFi Stadium. Opening with Dre and Snoop’s “The Next Episode,” the stage was a replica studio, house and buildings that served as a tribute to Los Angeles. They went into “California Love” before 50 Cent popped up to perform a verse from “In Da Club.” Following Fiddy’s cameo, Blige hit the stage for “Family Affair” and “No More Drama.” Then Kendrick Lamar hopped on stage for “m.a.a.d. city” and “Alright.” Eminem (who would take a knee in support of...
Hip-Hop Icons Get Together For The 2022 Super Bowl Halftime Show In ‘The Call’
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: NFL / Pepsi/Roc Nation Feels like just yesterday the people in charge of putting together the Super Bowl Halftime Show couldn’t buy a Hip-Hop act as the culture was boycotting the annual entertainment segment of the big game due to the NFL league blackballing Colin Kaepernick. But times have changed and with Jay-Z having a say in things these days, the 2022 SB Half-Time Show won’t just be Hip-Hop based, but it’ll be boasting some of the most iconic names in the game as Dr. Dre, Eminem, Snoop Dogg, Mary J. Blige and Kendrick Lamar. To hype up this year’s Halftime Show, OG director F. Gary Gray put together a new cinematic commercial spot dubbed The Call featuring the aforementioned artists and best believe it got us older heads hype as hell. Starting off w...
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar Up the Ante and Anticipation in Super Bowl Halftime Show Trailer
An extravagant trailer for the upcoming Super Bowl LVI Halftime Show has just been released. Deemed “The Call,” this year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show will feature Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige, and Kendrick Lamar. [embedded content][embedded content] Jay-Z’s company Roc Nation has booked the halftime performances for the last three years. So, in his good taste, it makes sense that Jay-Z could pull together some of hip hop’s biggest, era-spanning stars for one of the nation’s favorite sporting events—and definitely music events—of the year. The highly anticipated performance follows The Weeknd’s set last year. In the trailer, all the artists are in the middle of something—Eminem tries to come up with lyrics, Snoop is cruising down the highway, Blige poses for a photoshoot, Lamar...
Did Mary J. Blige Help Alpo Martinez Secure Movie Deal Before Death?
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: YouTube / Youtube It seems the rabbit hole regarding Alpo Martinez’s life is getting even deeper. It is alleged that he was working with Mary J. Blige to bring his story to the big screen. The Yonkers Times is reporting that the notorious drug kingpin turned informant was very busy during his last year of living. The local news outlet says that the Harlem, New York native grew tired of other entities detailing his rise to infamy without his consent or direction. Once he became a free man he sought to tell his story on a large platform and then synced with none other than legendary stylist Misa Hilton Brim. The influencer, who shares a child with Sean “Diddy” Combs, allegedly paired up Martinez with her long time good friend Mary J. Blige and the “Family A...
The 90 Greatest Albums of the ’90s
This article originally appeared in the September 1999 issue of SPIN. “You must be high.” We heard that a lot during the time we spent preparing this issue. Which is understandable. Pronouncing the 90 greatest albums of the ’90s is a somewhat presumptuous thing to do. When you’re measuring the music this decade is offering to history—the sounds we partied with, copulated to, fought about, and wept over—everyone has an opinion. That ours should be more valid than yours is debatable. But hey—it’s our magazine. What, then, you ask, constitutes “greatest”? Don’t even start. Suffice it to say that, after much heated discussion and countless veiled insults, it came down to the factors of both remarkable artistry and cultural shock value. Sometimes a record’s knock-you-off-your-Skechers impa...
Mary J. Blige Performs at Chanel No. 5’s 100th Anniversary Party, Announces New Album Date
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Dimitrios Kambouris / Getty Mary J. Blige is undoubtedly a Queen in Black culture, but her latest performance shows just how far her royal status stretches. As a part of the 100th Anniversary party for Chanel’s signature No. 5 perfume, the iconic fragrance and fashion brand took over Rockefeller Center for an exclusive debut party of “Chanel No. 5 In the Stars,” a new outdoor installation celebrating the iconic fragrance. Related Stories Featuring a special surprise performance from the “Family Affair” singer, a presentation by professional ice skater Elladj Balde, and a show by the Brass Queens Band, the celebration of Chanel No. 5 in the Stars delivered much excitement as a host of New York City socialites and Chanel ambassadors watched. “We’ve all been...
Dr. Dre, Kendrick Lamar, Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Snoop Dogg to Perform at This Year’s Super Bowl Halftime Show
After basically ignoring the Atlanta music scene when the Big Game was there a few years ago, the NFL decided to not make the same mistake twice. For this year’s game at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles, the NFL is giving the Super Bowl Halftime show a distinctly Los Angeles feel, as Compton natives Dr. Dre and Kendrick Lamar will be joined by Eminem, Mary J. Blige and Long Beach’s own Snoop Dogg. This will be Dr. Dre’s first live performance since headlining Coachella with Snoop Dogg in 2012 (the one with 2Pac’s hologram). “The opportunity to perform at the Super Bowl Halftime show, and to do it in my own backyard, will be one of the biggest thrills of my career,” Dr. Dre said in a statement. “I’m grateful to Jay-Z, Roc Nation, the NFL, and Pepsi as well as Snoop Dogg, Eminem, Mary J. Blige an...
Mary J. Blige ‘My Life’ Doc Shows Why She’ll Forever Be Queen in Black Culture
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Cindy Ord / Getty In 2019, Mary J. Blige’s iconic sophomore album, My Life turned 25-years old. In commemoration of the 1994 instant classic that had such a soul-level impact on Black America, the Queen decided to film a documentary detailing why so many of us felt seen. At an exclusive screening in Atlanta, hosted by Kenny Burns on behalf of radio station V-103, select fans were treated to an exclusive preview of the highly anticipated film, produced by Mary J. Blige, herself, along with Sean Love Combs and Ashaunna Ayars. Upon entrance, the guests were greeted with hors d’oeuvres and select cocktails featuring Mary’s signature Sun Goddess wine fused with Summer Citrus Ciroc to create a themed drink fit for the night aptly dubbed “Ciroc Summer...
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Mary J. Blige Releases Trailer To Amazon Doc Based On ‘My Life’ Album [Video]
HipHopWired Featured Video Source: Amazon / Amazon Mary J. Blige is about to give her fans an inside look into one of her greatest works. She has announced a documentary about My Life. The Queen of Hip-Hop and R&B is about detail how her arguably best work came to be. On Tuesday, June 1 she announced a new movie titled My Life. The project will dive deeper into this classic release; not only the timeless material but everything that drove her to give so much of her personal life to the world. In this documentary, the singer, producer and actress is set to reveal “the demons and blessings that inspired the record and propelled her from the soul-crushing world of New York’s housing projects to international stardom” the official press release reads. “In the process, she celebrates t...
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