Mary J’s Rag To Riches Journey To Being The Queen • 08.28.09
It’s good to feel like Mary J Blige is happy. While I don’t know her personally to be sure from the outside looking in I believe she’s happy. I remember when I first saw her video come on BET back in 1992. My sister loved her song she ran to the tv turned it up and started dancing, and I just loved the way she put on a personal show for me in her white suit jacket, lingerie top and white fitted hat to the back. You couldn’t tell me that she wasn’t dancing just for me. She would help develop my love for hip hop w/ classic after classic and years later she would come clean with the details of her troubled life in the industry. 10 years after she debuted on the scene she sat down w/ 60 Minutes for an interview with the late Ed Bradley and told the world her story.
“It hurts a lot when you cannot really comprehend what a person is saying in a meeting or you don’t even understand what you’re reading in your contract,” says Blige, who left school in the 11th grade and reads at only an eighth-grade level. (more…)









