TEAM RNS PRESENTS

ARTIST: Mary J. Blige

TITLE: Love & Life

RIPPER: Team RNS

1hr 10min total-101.5mb

RELEASE DATE: 2003-08-26
RIP DATE: 2003-08-09

01 Love & Life Intro (Feat. Jay Z 2:48

04 Not Today (Feat. Eve)          4:13
05 Finally Made It (Interlude)    1:39

07 Let Me Be The 1 (Feat. 50 Cent)4:40
08 Love @ 1st Sight (Feat. Method 5:18

13 Feel Like Makin Love           4:42

15 Message In Our Music           1:49

16 All My Love                    4:16
17 Special Part Of Me             4:33
18 Ultimate Relationship (A.M.)   5:05

Here is the highly anticipated album
from Mary J. Blige, she decided to go
back the P Diddy route again for a
producer and this album has some great
guest appearances. It's been awhile
since Mary's last album but this one
is sure to keep everyone wanting more
and more! Big shouts out to everyone who
realizes that releases are more important

Nobody tells it like Mary. With a voice
that is rough and ready, sweet and pure,
Mary J. Blige is capable of conveying
heartache and happiness in a single
musical phrase. A confessional singer,
her emotional honesty reflects the
great traditions of blues and soul with
a ripped-from-the-pages-of-your-diary
immediacy that has won her countless
honors and a devoted, ever-growing
audience around the world. Over the
course of twelve years, five studio albums
and one live collection, Mary J. Blige
never fails to deliver potent R&B/hip
hop mantras that work on the head,
heart and hips. More than a vocalist,
she is an accomplished recording artist
known for her electrifying live
performances, dramatic videos, and
innovative studio productions with a
who's-who and who's-hot of musical
talents from Elton John to Eve. A quantum
leap forward and a welcomed return to
her roots, Love & Life, the latest CD
from Mary J. Blige, reunites Mary and
Sean "P. Diddy" Combs, the
producer-performer who crowned her the
Queen of Hip-Hop Soul. Now a seasoned
songwriter (she co-wrote 17 of the
album's 18 tracks) as well as a
brickhouse vocalist, Mary co-executive
produced the album with P. Diddy. They
collaborated on many of the albums'
tracks, including the pulsating first
single, "Love @ First Sight," a tune
inspired by her real life romance that
features Method Man, as well as "Let Me
Be The One" (featuring 50 Cent). Blige
and Combs won a Grammy in 1996 for "I'll
Be There/You're All I Need To Get By."
"The person I really am is hip hop. That
stuff lives in me, says Mary. I know how
to choose whatever sample is the hottest
thing cause I've lived in the clubs.
I've been to block parties since I was
16. I've grown up in hip-hop culture."

Reflecting a new-found serenity without
forgetting her trademark straight-up
messages to players, cheaters, and
fools, Love & Life features club-ready
slammers ("Ooh!"), tender love ballads
("Special Part of Me"), and
gospel-flavored songs ("Ultimate
Relationship"). "Not Today" featuring
Eve, once again pairs her with producer
Dr. Dre, who produced Mary's #1 smash
2002 single, "Family Affair." "This album
is more upbeat," she notes. "It's a
celebration of coming full circle. It's
who I am and who Mary J. Blige has
been." Delivered with conviction and
compassion, the songs on Love & Life are
evidence of Mary's spiritual growth and
her transcendence over a childhood in
the projects of Yonkers, New York and
an early success plagued with drama, all
the way up to her current joy. "Yes she's
gotten lost; shes done this and that,
and she's been trying to figure it
out," Mary admits in her typically
forthright manner. The team of Combs and
Blige helped usher in a stylish, "ghetto
fabulous" hybrid of R&B that united
gospel and blues-influenced vocals
with high-tech funk and rap on Mary's
groundbreaking 1991 debut, What's The
411? Their follow-up, 1994's My Life set
a standard for soul that remains

It also set her up for some hard life
lessons explored on 1997's Share My
World and 1999's Mary. With the same
inner strength and raw honesty she had
used to tackle her personal pain, these
uncompromising recordings revealed the
universality of Mary's heartaches and
demonstrated the healing power of music.
"I didn't want to tell my business,"
she continues. "I had no other choice. I
wrote it down and people came back to me
and said 'You saved my life!' without
even knowing that when they listened to
me sing, it helped me, too." Ushering
in the 21st century Mary released the
triple-platinum No More Drama in 2001.
"I always thought my fans were just inner
city, but people from all over the world
and of every color responded to that
record. I gave a lot of myself not
knowing it was gonna reach so many
people." She has also reached them in
other arenas, as a budding actress on
television (Strong Medicine) and in
the independent film Prison Song
(co-starring with rapper Q-Tip), as well
as in her humanitarian efforts.

In addition to filming anti-drug public
service announcements, Mary has worked
with various education groups and received
Rock The Vote's highest honor, the
Patrick Lippert Award. She is a
tireless fundraiser for people with
AIDS and continues as the spokeswoman
for MAC's Viva Glam IV with all proceeds
from the lipstick earmarked to AIDS
education and research. Whether pouring
her heart out in a recording booth or
on a concert stage, or privately
learning how to love herself and help
others, Mary J. Blige has discovered
something powerful. The music that she
makes, the songs that have brought so
much joy and solace to so many, have
also been her own salvation. "Going
through all the stuff I went through
wasn't in vain because I found out that
my job is to give," she concludes. "No
More Drama wasn't just an album; it was
a transition in my life. I was tired of
suffering, of the hustle and hassle of
everyday life. I figured out that all
along, the problem had been pride and
ignorance. Right now I'm growing, I'm
learning, and I'm listening. I realized
that I need to hear the truth and that
the truth is setting me free. And what
you hear on Love & Life is the truth
and my willingness to embrace it."