Mary J Blige
Dvd : What’s the 411 ?
Release Date : July 28, 1992
Label : Mca

review :
Perhaps the true test of a classic is this : something that’s commonplace now but at the time appeared revolutionary. The notion that a female R&B singer could be as informed by the Real Roxanne as she was by Aretha Franklin, that she could give love to the streets and the roughnecks—while still delivering soul-drenched love songs that came from that wounded womanly space—was, in a word, groundbreaking.

It was the sound of the New Jills, and of a new genre, aptly called hip-hop soul. Featuring production from a then-upstart Puffy, and a collection of songs that alternately swagger and seduce—"You Remind Me," "Real Love," "Reminisce"—What’s the 411 ? may not be Blige’s finest work (that honor may go to its moody follow-up, My Life). But its ghetto-fied grooves dominated the radio then, and they still sound fierce today, even with a slew of lesser imitators attempting to do what the rough and ready Blige did so effortlessly back in the day. —Amy Linden

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FROM ME 2 YOU, by Raychelle [2005-12-17 22:58:22]

MJB u are my girl i think u are a very special person and mad people hating but let them punks keep hating cause we dont need no drama cause we making the brake through. your songz and the titles of them are kind of like my life and i just want to thank ou for not given up your dream and making mines come true love ya MJB