Mary J Blige..

I was watching an interview of her talk about the divorce and how her husband was in love with someone else.

imagine that...

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problems.

But when Hollywood types marry other Hollywood types, it always ends like this.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Especially if he was managing her career, etc.

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would your response be the same?

what's left for the rest of us??

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^^^^^AHHHHH took me a minute....

You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill, you stay in Wonderland, and I show you how deep the rabbit hole goes.

they know the man isn't right for them but they want to prove they can change them.

Meanwhile the good dude has tried time and time again to win them over and were completely ignored.

Some people are afraid of happiness.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Album titles:

"My Life"
"No More Drama"
"Love & Life"
"Growing Pains"
"Stronger With Each Tear"
"My Life II: The journey Continues"


and the forthcoming "Strength of a Woman"


C'mon man. She's made a career out of heartbreak songs. Seriously.

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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NSh3Uh-kj_k

I fux with this.

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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

which is to say there isnt much she's been through that average non- famous sisters go through as well. No one WANTS heart break....but its gotta be easier with $40 mil. The loss of privacy is difficult I imagine....but if you live a social life you've experienced that on some level anyway *shrugs*


Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

you think having the money makes the heartbreak easier?

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Navem nu, cuando sol
Tutu nu, vondo nos nu
Vita em, no continous non
Nos nu ekta nos sepe ta, amen

When the sun shades the ship
We sweat and life is not safe
To swim or to touch not
When we unite we hedge amen

She got a ton of material to work with

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it was the fucking BEATS behind her. it was the production, mostly. yeah she sang some heartache shit and all that but the production was doing some heavy lifting too.

that lightning in a bottle will not be recaptured. it's not 1990anything anymore.

for MJB to recapture that 'magic' she'd have to sing over Trap beats from some hot/up-and-coming-but-not-quite-at-the-top producer. like she did in 1990whatever with 411, My Life (and maybe Share My World). b/c back then part of what made those records so FRESH was the idea of an R&B songstress cooing and wailing over relatively 'hard' Rap beats was still fresh. MJB and Mariah Carey (...the actual Queen of Hip Hop Soul if you look at the facts) were in the process of creating something relatively new. MJB ain't out here doing that again. oh...and as for what made MJB's performances so special..this was back when we didn't think she could sing. but now...MJB knows she can sing and really she thinks she can SANG (thanks to 'Be Without You' and that 'No More Drama' Grammy performance) so she's not gonna go in the studio and give us those gutter heartbreak moaning barely awake vocals like she did all up and down My Life. that's not happening again. MJB is all about the full-throated Pop vocals now.

so no, the divorce doesn't has me excited for a new Mary record. i can't go home again. thankfully i still have 'I Love You' (especially the remix w/Smif-N-Wessun). when i want that old thing back i just cue that up and play it loud.

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

1. Breakdown. with Bone Thugs.

2. Fantasy. with ODB.

3. Honey. with the Lox.

4. Heartbreaker. with Missy and Da Brat.

5. The Roof. with Mobb Deep.

...and i haven't scratched the surface.

there is one Queen of HHS. and it's not MJB. Mariah has made MORE HHS songs than MJB. and she's made better ones.
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

b/c you know that Mariah was a massive Pop star right out the gate.

you know that when Mariah dropped her first HHS single (Fantasy w/ODB) we were all like...WHAT IN THE FUCK?? it seemed like a fluke. and the shit was hot too. then she kept doing it...and her label, Columbia, was not happy about it. but they had no choice - she was fucking/married to the label head. so initially all of her HHS stuff was relegated to remixes on her singles. until they divorced and then she went all the way w/the shit and started putting rappers on the album versions of her songs.

anyway, point is we both know getting on a Mariah record was more desirable b/c there was guaranteed to be bigger exposure and higher sales. which is why so many rappers jumped on her records. meanwhile, MJB was trying to distance herself from HH and so she was downplaying rap w/each successive record. her 'Queen' title seems to be based on her first 2 albums...and those albums have a serious dearth of rappers. especially when compared to what Mariah ended up doing.
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

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she wasn't fuckin with 'us'...

so fk Mariah.


Mariah ain't never fought nobody. I have no proff of Mar J's fisticuffs, but I believe she's a scrapper and that's enough. LOL

IG: amadu_me

"...Whateva, man..." (c) Redman

but he on one with that shit LOL


Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

i promise Mariah has more HHS entries than MJB.


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shame on ALL you negroes.


*waiting on that MJB OKP diss track*

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i'm not dissing MJB just being real.

HHS Mary has been gone for a while. 'Be Without You' was the final nail in that coffin. she tried it again w/My Life II and look how that turned out ('Someone to Love Me' is the JAM though).

no divorce is going to bring her back to that. she's moved on.

but back to Mariah and Mary...it's like they wanted each other's career. Mariah came out Pop but wanted to be HHS. Mary came out HHS and wanted to be Pop. in the end they each got what they wanted - Mary got some limited Pop success. Mariah is the actual HHS diva but is mostly unacknowledged for all of the work she did in that genre. ppl kinda roll their eyes - as is being done in this subthread. LOL
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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

http://www.iloveoldschoolmusic.com/see-mariah-careys-dad-that-she-wishes-shed-spent-more-time-with/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KNnyGcVk0Oo


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"Get ready....for your blessing....."

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...I'm from the era when A.I. was the answer, now they think ai is the answer - Marlon Craft

strength of taking a photo with a kid.....
just because there's a dusty pic of them out there, that don't mean we don't need to see the test results....

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

Mariah's mother married her father in 1960. He is Afro Latino. So he black. Which means Mariah is black.

Sorry.... i'm not down with the you don't claim us but we claim you game. (in reference to Mariah's alleged latinx dad, not Mariah)


"Get ready....for your blessing....."

Mariah's JOINTS go. I still listen to Breakdown. But those are pop songs with rappers on them. There is a difference. That there is a rapper on the joint is the only reason to call it HipHop anything. Has Mariah ever even been referred to as a Soul artist? Let alone HHS.

Mary IS hip hop soul. She pioneered the aesthetic. Meanwhile, Mariah had her Essence Fest DEBUT last year.

No. Just. No.



Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

they were R&B.

for the earlier ones the rappers were featured on remixes, like 'Fantasy':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0UrQWXhvU

this is the version that blew up. not the album version. which is more Pop:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq09UkPRdFY

the one that had heads blown in late summer 1995 was the Bad Boy remix.

then came Always Be My Baby

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHp-IiDgMWg

...the remix w/Brat and Xscape blew up huge. that's the one i heard most often. not the original Pop version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfRNRymrv9k

by 1997 Mariah insisted on having rappers on the album versions.

so we got Honey which had some rap dust on the album version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=753_mUwbOJ4

but the remix was still deeper

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2bwwIsS40

and the motherfucking Roof gave a nod to 'Shook Ones'. on the album version.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOApp3n-abA

so of course she had to put Mobb Deep on the remix b/c Columbia was not ready for them to be on the album

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7GIhB81JM

but the real bomb dropped on Breakdown. Columbia couldn't keep Bone Thugs off the album version

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7V9dn1rC8

but the remix has even mo thugs

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0tb3uZwU24

this was basically the end of Mariah playing around w/the Pop vs R&B shit on her singles.

after this the singles had rappers on them. period.

so Heartbreaker had Jay Z

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUzcLVyFLNo

and the Rainbow album had not only Jay Z but Missy, Brat, Snoop, Mystikal and Master P featured on songs.

and the trend has continued w/each album. rappers all over.

i agree that Mariah has been denied the title 'Queen of HHS' but IMO she's the one who deserves it. b/c during this time i just featured...MJB was NOT out there putting rappers on her albums or remixes like Mariah. MJB was courting a Pop career. she started w/Share My World and went hard on No More Drama. but she didn't really get it until 'Be Without You'...a fucking BALLAD (which sounds a lot like Mariah's 'We Belong Together' is the biggest hit of her career.






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Mary IS the hiphop in her songs. She lends cred to rappers not the other way around. Hence Jayz's "I did.songs.with.MJB.my nigga." line....


http://hiphop-n-more.com/2016/11/new-video-mary-j-blige-thick-of-it

Its not her associations. Its her. I mean THIS is Mary in 2017. Yankee fitted and all.

Beyonce might be queen bey...

But Mary's the damn patron saint of hood Black women.


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>they were R&B.
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>for the earlier ones the rappers were featured on remixes,
>like 'Fantasy':
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GF0UrQWXhvU
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>this is the version that blew up. not the album version.
>which is more Pop:
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qq09UkPRdFY
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>the one that had heads blown in late summer 1995 was the Bad
>Boy remix.
>
>then came Always Be My Baby
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KHp-IiDgMWg
>
>...the remix w/Brat and Xscape blew up huge. that's the one i
>heard most often. not the original Pop version
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LfRNRymrv9k
>
>by 1997 Mariah insisted on having rappers on the album
>versions.
>
>so we got Honey which had some rap dust on the album version
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=753_mUwbOJ4
>
>but the remix was still deeper
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oy2bwwIsS40
>
>and the motherfucking Roof gave a nod to 'Shook Ones'. on the
>album version.
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOApp3n-abA
>
>so of course she had to put Mobb Deep on the remix b/c
>Columbia was not ready for them to be on the album
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xK7GIhB81JM
>
>but the real bomb dropped on Breakdown. Columbia couldn't
>keep Bone Thugs off the album version
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bC7V9dn1rC8
>
>but the remix has even mo thugs
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0tb3uZwU24
>
>this was basically the end of Mariah playing around w/the Pop
>vs R&B shit on her singles.
>
>after this the singles had rappers on them. period.
>
>so Heartbreaker had Jay Z
>
>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FUzcLVyFLNo
>
>and the Rainbow album had not only Jay Z but Missy, Brat,
>Snoop, Mystikal and Master P featured on songs.
>
>and the trend has continued w/each album. rappers all over.
>
>i agree that Mariah has been denied the title 'Queen of HHS'
>but IMO she's the one who deserves it. b/c during this time i
>just featured...MJB was NOT out there putting rappers on her
>albums or remixes like Mariah. MJB was courting a Pop career.
> she started w/Share My World and went hard on No More Drama.
>but she didn't really get it until 'Be Without You'...a
>fucking BALLAD (which sounds a lot like Mariah's 'We Belong
>Together' is the biggest hit of her career.
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Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

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k.
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TBH the fact that you're even a mod here fits squarely within Jag's narrative of OK-sanctioned aggression, bullying, and toxicity. *shrug*

Can you make songs with all the big Polka artists- making you Polka adjacent and be the queen of Polka?

Versus the artist that takes a traditional -gendered genre- and transforms it creating a entirely new lane within polka?


Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

this time w/o trying to be cute. b/c you missed your own point there.
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>Mary IS the hiphop in her songs. She lends cred to rappers
>not the other way around. Hence Jayz's "I
>did.songs.with.MJB.my nigga." line....


This^^^^should have ended the entire thread.....

GOAT of his era......long live Prince.....God is alive....

Blige created the lane but Mimi ran up that fucking score. I was on that 'nah nigga' when this thread started but he brought his receipts. The fact Mary got better rapper hands doesn't negate the fact over her career the hits are pretty much in Mariah's favor.

If so, Drake & Em are the GOATS. We can just end it here LOL




>Blige created the lane but Mimi ran up that fucking score. I
>was on that 'nah nigga' when this thread started but he
>brought his receipts. The fact Mary got better rapper hands
>doesn't negate the fact over her career the hits are pretty
>much in Mariah's favor.


Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

Mariah has more of them than Mary.

i like more of Mariah's rapper collabos than Mary's.

if they ask me who's the Queen of HHS i'd say Mariah. and i'd expect pearl clutching and gasping and falling out and 'NO HE DIDN'T's.


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You seem to understand that your position is...unconventional.

I am ALL for unconventional. But that Mary is queen of HHS is like...canon. Anything else heresy.


Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

i dig lots of her records.

i dig more of Mariah's. but shit...Mariah has done more work in more genres. her House remixes are almost as great as her Hip Hop records.

but back to Mary - i dig her stuff as a general idea. i don't agree that a divorce will bring back the old Mary. i think that old Mary is gone and will never return. too many factors came together at the right time to make records like 'Be Happy', 'I Love You', 'My Life' and 'No One Else'. if she could do THAT again she'd have already done it.
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But I just might be lol

I enjoy her new stuff. I just love how she represents an aesthetic that I can relate to. I'm not out here rock'n Yankee fitteds- but I get it. She doesnt tone down that hood Black girl vibe - or its beauty and I Love it.

That- more than the music is why we will ALWAYS show up for her. Even after she was singing for Chicken...


I cant believe I went this hard for MJB lol



Everybody's got a lil light unda the sun....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jUH3SMlwP8

every time someone brings up Mary's BK commercial (which wasn't some cooning shit, IMO. the problem was the song was kinda wack) i have to hear Durand's version. if Mary had sang it like he did that commercial would've been a classic.

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after Tommy locked her up in the mansion.

It worked too...

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>i promise Mariah has more HHS entries than MJB.

first some data (to start it off). a comparison of early albums by each.....

mariah carey 1990

1. "Vision of Love"
2. "There's Got to Be a Way"
3. "I Don't Wanna Cry"
4. "Someday"
5. "Vanishing"
6. "All in Your Mind"
7. "Alone in Love"
8. "You Need Me"
9. "Sent from Up Above"
10. "Prisoner"
11. "Love Takes Time"

Emotions - 1992
1. "Emotions"
2. "And You Don't Remember"
3. "Can't Let Go"
4. "Make It Happen"
5. "If It's Over"
6. "You're So Cold"
7. "So Blessed"
8. "To Be Around You"
9. "Till the End of Time"
10. "The Wind"

unplugged 1992 -
1. "Emotions"
2. "If It's Over"
3. "Someday"
4. "Vision of Love"
5. "Make It Happen"
6. "I'll Be There" (featuring Trey Lorenz)
7. "Can't Let Go"


musicbox - 1993
1. "Dreamlover"
2. "Hero"
3. "Anytime You Need a Friend"
4. "Music Box"
5. "Now That I Know"
6. "Never Forget You"
7. "Without You"
8. "Just to Hold You Once Again"
9. "I've Been Thinking About You"
10. "All I've Ever Wanted"

Daydream (1995)
1. "Fantasy"
2. "Underneath the Stars"
3. "One Sweet Day" (with Boyz II Men)
4. "Open Arms"
5. "Always Be My Baby"
6. "I Am Free"
7. "When I Saw You"
8. "Long Ago"
9. "Melt Away"
10. "Forever"
11. "Daydream Interlude" (Fantasy Sweet Dub Mix)
12. "Looking In"
note: the "Fantasy - Bad Boy remix" came out in 1995, produced by Puffy AFTER the work he had done on the 1st two Blige albums
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mary j blige - 1992
1. "Leave a Message"
2. "Reminisce"
3. "Real Love"
4. "You Remind Me"
5. "Intro Talk" (featuring Busta Rhymes)
6. "Sweet Thing"
7. "Love No Limit"
8. "I Don't Want to Do Anything"
9. "Slow Down"
10. "My Love"
11. "Changes I've Been Going Through"
12. "What's the 411?" (featuring Grand Puba)

followed by the 411 remixes in 1993

My Life - 1994
1. "Intro"
2. "Mary Jane (All Night Long)"
3. "You Bring Me Joy"
4. "Marvin Interlude"
5. "I'm The Only Woman"
6. "K. Murray Interlude"
7. "My Life"
8. "You Gotta Believe"
9. "I Never Wanna Live Without You"
10. "I'm Goin' Down"
11. "My Life Interlude"
12. "Be With You"
13. "Mary's Joint"
14. "Don't Go"
15. "I Love You"
16. "No One Else"
17. "Be Happy"

Share My World - 1997
1. "Intro"
2. "I Can Love You" ((featuring Lil' Kim))
3. "Love Is All We Need" ((featuring Nas))
4. "Round and Round"
5. "Share My World (Interlude)"
6. "Share My World"
7. "Seven Days" ((featuring George Benson))
8. "It’s On (duet with R. Kelly)"
9. "Thank You Lord (Interlude)"
10. "Missing You"
11. "Everything"
12. "Keep Your Head"
13. "Can’t Get You Off My Mind" ((featuring The LOX))
14. "Get to Know You Better"
15. "Searching" ((featuring Roy Ayers))
16. "Our Love"
17. "Not Gon' Cry"


stopping there to leave some work for the rest of whomever. it's a decent enough sample size to start

Mariah went for MJB's turf.....

"Get ready....for your blessing....."

Carey's music got demonstrably more street AFTER MJB showed there was money to be made in that lane. It wasn't by accident she went to puffy and WuTang who had already been successful with Blige

despite having a couple years head start, in terms of making records, Carey was late on the bus relative to the integration of Hiphop and hiphop artists (which Blige did from her 1st album and on pretty every record since)

now as Blige's career progressed and she got older (along with her audience) she went a little more "grown and sexy" with it, but she'll still rep either with a track or two or a remix along the way to show she ain't completely sold out

but of course there is the possibility of similar non-opinion-based information than what is shown above (*shrug*)

sure. of course, Jody Watley had shown both Mary and Mariah the way w/'Friends'...but i digress. Mariah was the first to come like that from the Pop world.

Mary had a pretty hot start. and then when Mariah jumped into the genre she basically shut the shit down. b/c i don't recall hearing BUZZ about MJB's rapper features after 'You're All I Need' w/Method Man.

i recall though each time Mariah came w/one of those rap remixes in the mid 90s it was like 'DAMN!' b/c she wasn't going the easy route and using Heavy D or Chubb Rock or Young MC or some shit like that. her first feature was ODB. 'Me and Mariah go back like babies and pacifiahs'. it was hard to wrap the mind around a certified Pop diva working w/WuTang - and the craziest motherfucker in WuTang at that. she started there. then on the next album she was working w/Bone Thugs and then Mobb Deep....

and as we later learned about Whitney, it turned out this was her all along. she was driving the bus on all of the rap features. it wasn't done by the label for $. the label was fighting her all along. she was the one who wanted to make R&B and Hip-Hop Soul records. after 'Fantasy' was such a hit she gained leverage. and she kept gaining leverage w/each hit. that was her doing, not Columbia's.

but anyway, i agree that Mary came out first. and if she is the Queen she abdicated the throne and Mariah sat in it.
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the focus is on Hip Hop Soul records.

i proposed that Mariah has made more of them than Mary.

MJB:

Real Love
What's the 411
You Don't Have to Worry (Remix)
My Love (Remix)
What's the 411 (Remix)
Reminisce (Remix)
Love No Limit (Remix)
You Remind Me (Remix)
You're All I Need/I'll Be There for You
I Love You
I Love You (Remix)
Be Happy (Remix)
I Can Love You
Love Is All We Need
Love @ First Sight
Let Me Be the 1
Hate It or Love It (Remix) (aka MJB da MVP)
Cant Hide From Luv
Grown Woman
The One
Good Love
Someone To Love Me
Next Level

Mariah:

Fantasy (Remix)
Always Be My Baby (Remix)
Honey
The Roof
Breakdown
Sweetheart
Heartbreaker
Thank God I Found You (Remix)
Crybaby
Loverboy (Remix)
Don't Stop
Last Night a DJ Saved My Life
Boy (I Need You)
You Got Me
Irresistible
Miss You
I Know What You Want
It's Like That
Say Somethin
Get Your Number
One and Only
To the Floor
So Lonely
We Belong Together (Remix)
Makin It Last All Night
Migrate
Side Effects
4real4real
I Be Lovin U Long Time (Remix)
Touch My Body (Remix)
Obsessed (Remix)
HATEU
Up Out My Face
Triumphant
Beautiful (Remix)
You Don't Know What to Do
I Don't

...so like i said. Mariah has more HHS records - or records w/rapper features.
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>MJB:

conveniently left out:

ooh - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ODq8Kc3Gxo
(note: that alone has abotu 5 remixes from everyone from G-Unit to dilla)

not today (with eve) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ilnw3_oViBQ

family affair (remix with Jadakiss and Fabolous produced by dr dre) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0j1qDIK2G0

just fine (swizz beats and lil wayne) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FWiCzEdzPXg

everything (so-so def remix) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wgkbwef5EnA

i'm goin down remix (with method man by puffy) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dRrSrn9ABWY

no more drama (remix with puffy) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_i8skzgRnF8

be with you (remix with lauryn hill) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfpbkRuCdoI

reminisce (pete rock remix with cl smooth) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ja8bPz-_ccs

mr wrong (with drake) - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eS-y2R9cmnQ

etc.

and *that* doesn't count HER appearing on hiphop songs as the feature or for the hook (ghostface "all I got is you", jay-z "can't knock the hustle", common "come close", dr dre "the message" ....)

My All/Stay a While

Honey (So So Def Remix) w/Brat and Dupri as opposed to the other remix w/The Lox and Mase.

The One (So So Def Remix) w/Bonecrusher.

All I Want For Christmas Is You (So So Def Remix)

Don't Forget About Us (Remix)

Bye Bye (Remix)

Thirsty

Infinity

i was surprised to find Mariah has more of these rapper features than MJB since MJB is so frequently associated w/the rap/sung collabo. but MJB wasn't the first to do it (that's Jody) and Mariah's done more of them.

as for who's got the higher quality HHS records...i dunno. my heart wants to say Mary but when i see the list Mariah's got more of them that are 'my jam' than Mary. not that Mary's not the shit b/c she is but when it comes to HHS i'd give Mariah the 'title'. she earned it.
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once she started doing this kinda music. after her first 2 albums, she made that switch and it didn't appeal to me. felt almost like she was faking, trying to hang with the cool kids. like if adele had a single with 2chainz over a mike will made it beat.

even with her Mimi album, I preferred the less hip-hoppy songs. to me, he lane is we belong together rather than all her rapper songs.

Y'all buy those labels, I was born supreme

I can think of. Her catalog after those first two is pretty rough.

>thankfully i still have 'I Love You' (especially the remix w/Smif-N-Wessun)


She needs to put those out there again. If Jack Herrera can finally be released on Spotify those can too.

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all the classic Mary J remixes and B sides on one tape.

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