Mary J. Blige has long been renowned for keeping it candid – both in her music and when articulating her views.
As such, it was of little surprise that the R&B royal didn’t hold back when quizzed about the modern state of the genre many hail her the Queen of.
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Chopping it up with her longtime friend and collaborator Diddy on Instagram Live, Blige began by saying:
“You can’t kill something that’s in our DNA. It’s going to keep transitioning from generation to generation to generation to generation. They were trying to kill it.”
Stressing that music like hers, Chaka Khan’s and Marvin Gaye’s is “healing,” Blige added:
“They wanna call it ‘popular music’ with Adele and Justin Timberlake get ahold of it, so now it’s ‘popular music’… but it’s been popular music! We’ve been had it!”
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No lies told
Mary old h** is just jealous of Adele💅🏾
Shut it orangutan
You don’t tell Diva to shut up💅🏾 Unless my man stuffed his 10 inch d in my mouth🍆
The Black artists just need to create RNB music and slap “POP” on the category
Other than Chris Brown and The Weeknd being mainstream wise —> Summer Walker, Ari Lennox, Jazmine Sullivan, H.E.R., Lucky Daye, Giveon, Rini, Brent Faiyaz, The Internet, Thundercat, Daniel Casaer, Snoh, Masego, Ella Mai, SZA, Jhene Aiko, etc all say hello and let’s not act like there aren’t plenty more talented musicians out there overshadowed by favoritism, ass kissing, payola, or sneaky favors from this same industry.
They can play the same game as their white counterparts. Just call yourself Pop and bam, you’re pop.
Black peoples are just salty coz White people making better pop music 💅🏾 They need to stick their boring ass in their lanes
The POP Music nowadays is BORING.
Your handsome daddy’s c*** is way more interesting 💅🏾
Yup and soo sad how black sellouts buy Adele but s*** on black artists black people are so negative against their own but Mary has done damn good staying true to R&B selling 750,000 albums first week 8 multiplatinum albums in a row 11 platinum and billboard ICON award all while not going POP 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
That was like almost 15 years ago hunnie. 💅🏾 Just leave the old s h I t behind and move on
Mary just got icon award in 2022 billboard awards and Beyoncé last number 1 was 14 years ago your point ????
Let’s see if Adele gets to 14 studio albums like Mary did and Mary still can sell out tour with 20,000 seats the power of an icon 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Adele doesn’t even make R&B music! Why are R&B artists and fans alike so pressed over her?
Yes she does very soulful and she emulates black artists it’s so clear
Adele makes Celine Dion music
Her music sounds nothing like the Mary’s, Anita’s, Toni’s, Fantasias, beyonces, Keyshias or Summers just to name a few. Adele’s music is POP and like Slh said More reminiscent of Celine Dion – adult contemporary. Sure she has some blues and soulful undertones but it’s not R&B and I wish y’all will stop saying it is. Her music isn’t even popular in the Black community like that. We are not huge Adele supporters.
I don’t see JT nor Adele in her lane.
JT is a bit of everything but mostly Pop with different influences from R&B to EDM.
Adele is not R&B at all. Since when !?!
Recod labels don’t support black r&b music like they support white pop music . There’s a lot of good r&b out right now but it isn’t being heavily marketed like pop so a lot of people don’t get to hear it. We need black owned radio stations and black owned media again, so that we can promote our own to our own.
Yes, Mary, it was even popular when you did it. RnB is just not the flavour of the day and honestly, how should it with the boring ass music everyone (including you, Mary) is releasing. RnB used to be diversified, it had great beats, songs to dance to, songs to cry to, songs to f-k to – now its just suicidal bathroom music