“Nobody’s gonna treat you as good as I am,” Mary J. Blige sings on “I Am,” the new single from her ninth studio album Stronger, in stores December 22. After letting her alter-ego Brook-Lyn shine on “The One,” Kendu’s wife’s returns to being just Mary on the mid-tempo R&B number.
After dueting with Mariah Carey and Toni Braxton, R&B’s new prince gets some “Hood Love” from Mary J. Blige. A version of the Bryan-Michael Cox production with Johnta Austin previously leaked. MJB has selected the Stargate-produced “I Am” as the new single from December 22nd’sStronger.
Mary J. Blige was a part of history as she performed a stirring rendition of “The Star-Spangled Banner” at Yankee Stadium where the New York Yankees clinched their 27th World Series title over the Philadelphia Phillies.
Santa Claus is not the only one coming down the chimney this holiday season. Mary J. Blige will also be stuffing stockings with her new album, which has been pushed back one week, just in time for Christmas.
Mariah Carey, who says she had to drink “ugly juice” for her unglamorous role in Precious, and Nick Cannon were inseparable as they walked the red carpet, along with Oprah, Mary J. Blige, Will Smith, Paula Abdul, and Robin Thicke, at the AFI Fest screening of Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire at Grauman’s Chinese Theatre in Hollywood on Sunday (Nov. 1). The film opens in select theaters Friday.
Could Mary J. Blige be adding an Oscar to her mantel? The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul throws in a bid for Best Original Song with “I Can See in Color” written for Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire. Mariah Carey’s “100%” was originally supposed to be included in Lee Daniels’ film, opening in theaters November 6.