People today know Mary J. Blige as the legend who sings, acts and has several awards from her work in music and film. Some may even mention her super public divorce from Kendu Isaacs — but most don’t know how she became the Queen of hip hop and soul music. MJB could always sing her […]

Mary J. Blige is the queen of hip-hop/soul and has lived up to that title since she first emerged on the scene in the early 90’s. She effortlessly blending two very different genres into her style and music, keeping her sound and message authentically her and telling stories everyone could identify with. In celebration of […]

Awards season is in full swing this fall and now the NAACP Image Awards has just released their nominations for 2017. Mary J. Blige and Jay-Z lead the pack with five nominations each, mostly for their successful albums Strength of a Woman and Jigga’s 4:44. Following their trail is Bruno Mars, Issa Rae, Kendrick Lamar, […]

This is Dee Rees’ year. With the release of Mudbound, she’s going to be the talk of the town and she might just be an Oscar contender. This isn’t a film you’ve seen before. Set in the rural American South during World War II, “Mudbound” is an epic story of two families pitted against one […]

According to a story Pink told on SiriusXM, Mary J. Blige keeps it a hundred on and off the stage. Pink chatted it up on “Morning MashUp,” and told a hilarious story about approaching Mary for a collaboration. “I went in her trailer a long time ago, I think it was when I hosted the […]

Music

As the warm days come to an end, it’s time we look back on the artists who owned the summer. Some made headlines with their game-changing music and others shocked us with candid storytelling.  One rapper used a clever marketing tactic to get his fans involved with promoting his album. Other artists reached life milestones […]

Music

It’s hard to believe summer of 1997 was 20 years ago. Back then, the way we experienced music was much different. When an album dropped, you ran to your nearest record store and purchased a copy. Walkmans and CD players were the only portable options, way before smartphones and streaming services became the new normal. […]

They say hell hath no fury like a woman scorned — unless you’ve met Kendu Isaacs. He is a man scorned and ranting all over the ‘Gram. Mary J. Blige’s estranged husband is not happy with how the singer is handling their split, especially after her epic BET Awards performance on Sunday. Mary sang her […]

Mary J. Blige was onto something in her 1995 hit “Not Gon’ Cry” — she sang about being with a man for 11 years only to find out he was cheating. Twenty-two years later and the singer is singing the same tune following her split from husband Kendu Isaacs after finding out that he was […]

It’s unfortunate Mary J. Blige has to deal with her hectic divorce with Kendu Isaacs on the eve of her Strength of a Woman album release. Now it seems like things are even more complicated according to Page Six, which reports that the woman Isaacs’ was having an affair with is an artist Blige took under her wing. […]