Mary J. Blige on "My Life, My Story" residency, Dr. Dre & Jay-Z stories & her BIGGEST hip hop influences

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29:53I hate this. She fucked all of them when I broke up with her. Every last one of them. Everybody, yo. They was like, yo, Joe. Three in the morning calling me. I'm like, yo, what's up? She's walking out with White Danny. everybody I ever told her I didn't like she fucked them all it's horrible it's horrible lucky for me he was strong no no not strong I didn't want to be with her you ever been in a relationship where the guy is talking like I was in a relationship with a girl that she talking all that hot shit and the whole time I'm looking at her I'm like bitch I don't even want to be with you like I'm sitting there like huh what there's one thing when you madly in love you go through the motions there's another thing when you checked out already usually about that time women they making their exit plans they got their money their cash they had saved up they getting the fuck up they get jokes on you guy

30:56Mary J. Blige:you was asking me a question yeah you ever been with it with it it's crazy you ever been in a situation where the guy's talking all that shit and you looking at him like yo I've been done like yup that shit crazy when it's done it's done when a person is not giving you peace it's poison so you already almost out you know now they whack they ugly they're not bringing you the things you need so now they ain't cute no more their nose is bigger than what it normally is their stomach is fatter than what it is and so you like you're whacking ugly anyway this is what you're saying to your mind I'm out of here but he's still thinking he hot I know what you're saying he's still thinking yeah I'm that nigga you like nigga you don't leave me hello like you sitting there like hello like bitch you on the chopping block right now like you ass started you better hold on to whatever you got and you know salute the guys that had girls bought them a couple of things and let them leave with their things cause this would be some rich niggas that want to keep the back we got my man the fucking boxer he sued the girl he went to federal court he wanted the Birkins back the boxer what's his name Devin Haney absolutely went to court Broke up with his baby mom and was like, yo, I need the Birkin bags back, the earrings.

32:12Like, come on. I mean, that's why. I don't think that's cool. You got to charge that. Like, that's it. Can't be an Indian guilt. Yeah, no back seats. Let me tell you something. Let me keep the fucking bag. I fought with my wife one time and I started looking at the diamonds and all the watches. I said, man, she got more money than me. I better stick around, boy. Fuck that. She got the bag right here. like so Mary we a hip hop show yeah run down back in the day who was some of the favorite records and I know some of your favorite but like I'll start with Raps New Generation one day we was talking about hip hop and you was going Seth the Sonic no no Seth the Sonic from Brooklyn Raps New Generation from the Super Lover C and all them guys there Raps New Generation I seen you sing the heart of heart How you fall in love with hip-hop and, you know, what was the first songs that you was part into in the jams?

33:07They had the jams in Yonkers too, right?

33:09Mary J. Blige:That's how we grew up. Yonkers had a lot of block parties. School 12. Remember School 12 parties? King of School parties. Like, y 'all came up behind us, but y 'all caught up to, you know, School 12 parties. And the DJs, you know, mixing all the hip-hop records, that's how, like, they was playing all the samples, like UFO. Remember UFO?

33:31Mary J. Blige:And all the yeah so it was I fell in love just with the samples you know and then it was back then it was like Karis 1 was a big deal Big Daddy Kane was a big deal Karis 1 and Big Daddy Kane was Yonkers when everybody had the Shizuki and everybody was running around playing I get raw like everybody had all the drug dealers had a Shizuki Cotton, Moford everybody had some so So it was all about the school 12 parties and in the summer, the block parties. So the DJs, they put us on and they put us on to the stuff that they didn't even play on the radio. They put us on to the shit that people were like, how you know that?

34:17Like, you was a legendary DJ from y 'all because I'm talking about he ain't got to be big time or nothing. But somebody who was rocking them jams.

34:23Mary J. Blige:It wasn't. Shout out Supreme and Hot. People was coming from out of town to play in DJ shows in school 12. I mean, it used to be like you had like Beatmaster Gene. Beatmaster. You had Rick and those guys. They was from Warburton, from Yonkers. Jericho. Jericho. Devine and them. Yeah, so Yonkers had some. We got it. Right now, they caught that shout out so legend wherever they at. Like, I'm telling you, you got to remember, you know, to me, it was Supreme and Hutch. Supreme and Hutch put me on. We had the best block parties in Supreme and Hutch. Their mother was called Mother Earth. And Mother Earth would sit behind the ropes and they'd be like, back up from the ropes.

35:04Mother Earth, they'll stop the fucking music for an hour talking about back up. Mother Earth got up. Nah, they was, you know, they was in power. And they was wrong. And then that's how we learned all the hip-hop shit. So Karis won and... Big Daddy Day.

35:17Mary J. Blige:Karis won, Big Daddy Kane. Who's hearing them up? Houdini was... Houdini was big, too. Who's hearing a lot of Houdini? Houdini was huge. Number Will, Five Minutes of Funk. Like, Skating Rings gave us, you know, a lot of, you know, good hip-hop music. That legendary skating rink in Wilde called Wheels. Yep. Wheels was a big deal. And then when we all got old enough to run to Harlem and all these other places we was running to, there was the Red Zone, there was the Octagon, the Tunnel, the Red Parade. I was too young for the Red Parade, but I heard a lot about it. But I was in the Red Zone. I was in the Tunnel.

35:52Mary J. Blige:I was in the Octagon. And somewhere else. Remember Spy? Just the Spy Club. Was it called the Spy Club? I remember that one I remember the one what was that Club USA they built the club they spent so many millions that's the night I seen Biggie he came up to me he pulled out the gun in the sheet he said you seen DJ Clue I said I ain't see him and he just kept going I just saw Clue I just saw Clue he had the hammer in his shit he had a vest he was like yo crack you seen Clue I said no I didn't see him Clue just walked by he saved his life what legend it was mixtapes too so I got put on to the Jungle Brothers through a mix kit straight out the jungle that's one of my one of my favorites I know every word for word true blue brother I was selling drugs to the Jungle Brothers like I'm in the corner watching shit move with the box playing Jungle Brothers I remember that shit.

36:58That was that shit. That straight out of the jungle. I know the whole... That was that shit. Wow. They was legendary, the Jungle Brothers. They had some damn shit.

37:07Mary J. Blige:And they had that... That was the Yonkers anthem right there. Jungle Brother. JB for short. A bite of it, Marama, and we almost fought. Shit. So I let them go. I let them run along. Run along. it's the wild shit you know I'm listening to the radio it's your birthday so I don't know if you know cause you was out here moving working and promoting the residency but I heard Smith & Wesson on the radio and they told that story how that I Shine You Shine came about and they said they was in a club I guess you they invited them back to the studio and they said they jumped on the joint and that's what they said on the radio you remember that?

37:55Mary J. Blige:Well, I don't remember being in the studio with Smith & Wesson I don't remember that but I do remember Puff bringing it back to me with them on it and they was one of my favorites at the time, when I heard them on it I went crazy, I was like, we gone we are, you know that was it. Right here now I know everybody's going to be watching I said it earlier to myself Buckshot Shorty Goat He'll go. Buckshot Shorty ducked down. Buckshot Shorty, a goat by far. Yeah. Like, I'm ready to put him as a goat. Like, one of the greatest of all time. And I don't think we ever talk about him like that, but this shit, man.

38:36I listen to that, and it still goes in my fucking blood when they just... And I'm

38:45Mary J. Blige:flows. And the other ones come, something, something, come follow me. Something, something, something. and the Rita Lynn. I just seen them rock all on. It's crazy. My What's the 411 album is narrated by that.

39:02We got to pull that Fendi fur down. I see them rock all in them. Oh, that's for they eyes. Mary threatened me, right? That's crazy. We at her birthday party and I pull up and she's like, you better come with that shit on when I come because I'm coming. And I said, damn, I rethought the whole shit. I still went in the closet, really calculated this. I said, man, I got to come with some Fendi first, some other, because she come through. You never dress whack. If you come to my house from the supermarket, from anywhere, you fresh to death. Cut that shit on. Like even in the hot, like on a regular day.

39:43If you come on a regular, regular of all days, you got that shit on. What is fashion to you and I know why I brought up Luther Vangels. But before you answer that, I'm going to tell you why. Patti LaBelle told me Luther Vangels had a closet with couches and TV in there. And if you go visit him in his house, he puts you in the closet and starts showing, yo, this that Scapparelli. Yo, this that one of one Balmain. This that I think for all my years of following Mary Jane, like your closet gotta be fucking ridiculous

40:24Mary J. Blige:it's insane and I can't even find half of the stuff that I wore through the years like it's just and it's still crazy I wish I could find all of that stuff that I was wearing what do you mean like the stolen missing or no a nigga stole my mom do you still got the army coat from Flojo nah but I got an army coat I almost wore that shit just on the regular just outside today now I got motherfucking and Lord Piana Army coach. 9 ,000 to the jack. But get ahead, mama. Well, when you move... They stole your shit. No, when you're doing... Was it burned down in a chimney fire? Nah. It's just... A lot of it probably is stolen because, like, I don't know where it was at.

41:07Mary J. Blige:But when you're moving, you just... Things just get lost in everywhere. And then, you know, I gave a lot of stuff away. Like, here, just take it. And, you know, I wish I didn't. But, that's crazy because the renegade mad shit away that now's the style now we bonded again because as he liked the shit this is the vintage she was like I had that in every color I gave it out this this that everything coming back everything the residency you're doing it different you're gonna have actors in theater yeah Hamilton it's called My Life My Life Story so I'm definitely gonna use some actors and actresses to tell the story you know you're gonna be like a bunch of acting it's gonna be a Mary J Blige show with little bits of like things involved to pull on your memory from interviews that I've done you'll be like oh wow I remember she said that and you know I remember she said this was that so it'll be B-sides like songs that like there's a lot of songs I never really performed so the B-sides that we're picking oh my god no we want that like that was the number one question I went around and hustled ear hustled a couple of women and I was like Or should I ask Mary?

42:20Because, you know, we would. Well, thank God. I'm blessed to be with Mary J. Blige all the time. And let me tell you something. I don't take you for granted. I know you the queen. You run shit. I asked a couple of people and they always like, is she going to do the songs we never see her perform at the residency? Wait till they hear what I'm doing.

42:40Mary J. Blige:Why you take it? And you, you know, but you're not going to be coming for the normal things. We got. So do you want to tell a story? Yeah. About that, can't get you off my mind, how we had that message first. You and Style, I was on the record that Rodney did. Can't get you. We had that. We had that first. That's a fact. We had that first. That's a fact. And Rodney just told the story, so I'm going to tell it again. The record was a monster before we even got it out. Smash. They killed it. Everybody was excited. and it was the message. Rodney's mixing the record or something like that. Before Rodney, he said, when he said he was going to mix the record at, he said that some people was coming.

43:28Mary J. Blige:I don't want to say who it is. I said, don't play it for him. He played it for him. Two weeks later, the whole sample gone. Yeah. I just told you about the shit off the air. That's the game. That's why I don't tell nobody nothing. I keep everything to my soul so anyway I just told him one of our best friends on earth I never told his shit publicly I played him a record and two weeks later we had an identical twin floating in the air and I was like Jesus Christ I couldn't to this day he's one of my best friends I never even had the courage to tell him yo you know you Jack my yala you know what I'm saying I play him a record You know, this the game, huh?

44:13You got something hot, and it's still a game. If you got something hot, don't tell nobody. Keep it tough, man. I don't feel what it is. Don't tell him nothing, man. No, that's life now. I think Khaled taught me that. Like, I be next to Khaled, and he don't tell me nothing. Next day, I look at TV. It's a Colgate commercial. I'm like, damn, this motherfucker don't even let me know where the bag at or nothing. I'm like, but you got to protect your blessings. You got to protect, you know, where you going because these people move on your shit. It was a lot of people got upset that we got the Netflix deal and we didn't tell nobody what we was doing.

44:50And so when they saw it, they was like, oh shit, like, yo, y 'all could have gave us a heads up. How about nobody feeds us and nobody pay our bills. So we got to do what we got to do. We got to protect our blessings. I understand what you said. You can't play shit for nobody. Not even the best. I'm talking about our best friend, almost the most loyalist dude I know in the world. He heard my shit. He went back, yo, look what I did. I was like. Foul play. Out of all the success you got, all the accolades, this, that, this, as he said, I stole this, this, that, this. You got to have the most in history of your music played in the house while the house is getting clean.

45:34I'll put you against any other artist on the planet really not you wanna get a good house clean it I will surprise yo my aunt and moms would play that shit to the fucking shit the shit was melting bro we live on the 5th floor we in front of the building playing we hit them for 10 hours straight. I will survive. Oh, no, no, no. I don't even know what the shit mean. I'm a little kid. I don't even know what the fuck they singing about. I guess. And that candy statin.

46:17Mary J. Blige:Oh, I'm a victim. My mother played the hell out of that record. And I didn't know why until I got older. I mean, the lyrics is, whew, but for women. So I guess that would be the equivalent to I Will Survive. And now my music is I will survive. It's the same thing, you know, same women empowerment songs. I want you to tell me about getting on Jay-Z's first album. Did you know he was going to be the guy? Or did you know, how did that come about? I heard you say it before, but I want it for the audience because this is a hip-hop. Yeah. They tuned in. I didn't know that he was going to be what he was.

46:55Mary J. Blige:But I knew my girlfriend, Michelle, who's still my girl to this day, we both were friends with Dame Dash I knew Dame since Slovan and Michelle was like oh you know Dame Dash I was like yeah Jay-Z's about to do a record and they want you on I was on the My Life album and I was like bet so I showed up to the studio they gave me the money in a brown bag like a brown paper bag still has some yala some residue on that shit that's a cheap during that the yellow on there. We didn't mind doing business I didn't mind doing business like that back then. I was like whatever. I was still actually mentally in slow bomb.

47:39Mary J. Blige:You know so I took the money went in the studio Irv was there did the verse and that was it. It wasn't no big deal it was just No that's a big deal with hip hop history. Yeah. You see how it happened you know I was on some street but here we are. It was a drug deal with no drugs. Legal drug money. Legal drug.

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50:38You know, it's impossible, right, to figure it out. But with all the records, I think your biggest is family affair. With Dr. Dre. That was... With who else? That like... Who else is on there? Jay to the moor. Hold up. As Mayor Zimdami would say, Jay to the moor. Jason Sylvester Stallone. That motherfucker gave you about 62 names. He better pick up my call when I call for him. I need some help. That family affair. You hear the beat? I mean, y 'all had a ball. I see that. Yo, LaTanya, you all in that fucking video, huh? It was a family affair. Family affair. I get it. What was that like when they played you that?

51:28Dr. J is still the guy I never worked with. I'm trying to get something, a crumb, a save a little piece for later.

51:36Mary J. Blige:Well, let me tell you the story. And Don Poole had a lot to do with this because Don Poole was my A &R at the time. Okay. Shout out to Don Poole. Uzo. And Geffen. Geffen Records is one of those. I was going to get chop-offs in Miami. Yeah. Yeah. And so Don Poo, Don Poo bought me the actual track. Now, I'm a hardcore hip hop head. All I'm doing is singing over hip hop loops. And he brings me, bam, bam, bam, bam. Didn't understand it. So Don Poo was like, oh, man. And then he goes and he gets in the studio with my brother. Shout out to Beasy. And then he's like, yo, Mary, I think you need to come down to the studio and, you know, rethink this.

52:13Mary J. Blige:so I had to snap out of you know records crackling and singing over hip-hop moves for a second to try something new I said let me go and see what this is about so we get in the studio we start writing the song my brother had already wrote some of the song and so I recorded it once I recorded this song I was like oh so okay we might have something so I sent it to Dre once we finished it right I sent it to Dre Dre was like nah I need something it needs something he was like it needs a bridge and I was like it don't need a fucking bridge and I was going crazy acting like the savage that I was and he was like if you don't do a bridge I'm gonna take my name off it I said okay I went and viewed the bridge so I went and wrote the bridge killed the bridge sent it to Dre.

53:07Mary J. Blige:What's the bridge again? What's the bridge? We don't need no haters. We're just trying to love one another. No more job. Yeah, all that. That was me. I got the words right. Thank you very much. That's God on the plate. And the rest is history. The song was so big. I was on tour and we had this bus driver who was this big white and, you know, like bluegrass country music listening. And he would keep the station on, the bluegrass station. And I came up there to talk to him one day and Family Affair was on. I was like, yo, what station is this? He was like, that's my station. This is my song. I said, what?

53:51Mary J. Blige:This is my song. You're like, that's me. That's when I realized, I said, oh my God, I'm a huge star. That's when I realized. Let me tell you the good part and the bad part of me being on the show. Me being on is a blessing and beautiful. now when they come to going on to do a show when they call me. It's the last song. You know how that happens. Ashanti do that shit to me all the time. Ashanti do that shit to me all the time. Be like, song 18? Yes, bro, song 18. I'm sitting there. No, this is the last. She got three pages of songs. I got the last, very last one at the last. It's fine print. everybody's wasted at that point I gotta throw a flag for that one because you been doing Jada Kiss dirty with the last song oh it ain't I gotta throw a flag Fab is on it too Fab is on Family of Fame on the remix wow you like working a lot with Fab we already know this Yonk is top five did it a lot but you you know what it is chemistry.

55:00Mary J. Blige:Fab is great chemistry, but he's also a good person and a really good friend. Like, I deal with people. I go where I'm celebrating. You know, I hear Fab, you know, say Les Queen, you know, just pay for the ground. You gotta give me nothing else. You know, I'm coming. Kiss. I'm doing family nothing. This is my family. And I only really deal with Jada Kiss and Fabulous when it comes because they really support me. I hate to go begging Biggest for your hours. I'm not begging for no birds. My phone turned red. That's Mary. Gotta come too. You ever heard her talk like a guy? You ever called her from a number she don't know?

55:37And she'd be like, yo, what's up? She's the greatest ever made. I'm telling you the truth. Throw a flag. What the fuck? Why would I call her from a number that she don't know? So what? For two, what kind of pranks you doing over here on your free time? I called Mary J. Blige. And I'm like, yo, what's up, sis? Yeah, what's up? What's going on out here? Who you talking to? This, this, that. They'll be like, yo, it's Joe Crack. Oh, Joey, you the best. All right, let's just say I call you right now. For my block number? Right now. Block number. Yo, what's up, sis? What's going on? Yo, what's going on?

56:11Before I say my name, how would you answer the phone? You. Oh,

56:19what's up, Joe? Yo, that shit crazy. You got me thinking you changed the number. Like, yeah, it's Joe Crack. Yo, Joe, what's up?

56:29Mary J. Blige:Oh, yeah, it's just not easy. I had to find another. After I got that divorce, I had to find another voice because people was calling me from all different kind of shit and wasn't who they was. So I had to find another voice. You got to do the deep. It's the screen. Yo, yo, what's up, yo? Let me tell you something, man. You know, we over that divorce shit and all that because your man. We over it. Your new man is. Well, not new man. Is he a mystery man still? Is he a mystery man to you? Not to... No, no, yes, yes. I was at the birthday party and I was dancing by Chatta. That motherfucker look like GQ Enterprise.

57:08Mary J. Blige:Joe, listen to what I'm saying. They was doing this shit. I said, yo. Joe, let me explain something to you. To the world, he's a mystery man, but to my family and friends, he's not. So we're not doing that because... Make some noise for that. Protect your peace. Protect your peace. You know with me, they try to give me so many bags to be on TV with my family. And I always said no, because I know I wouldn't have a relationship after a TV show. Because everybody be in your business. They got something to say. Shit that's probably normal to you or to my wife or me. They be like, oh, he ain't shit.

57:48Because soon as you know, I don't know about you, but as soon as I lock that door, close that door, I say some slick shit on the way out. like you know words alright man yo no problem close the door they catch they catch that shit on camera my head'll be on a fucking pike on one of them game of thongs yo check this out today I'll be true king of the north Joey Snow what? shit on I'm the true king of Joey Snow the king of the north the king of the north the king of the north Joe Snow came in that cocaine shit you ain't doing that that ain't that this ain't this you need

58:30Mary J. Blige:Joe let me ask you a question yes where did you meet me for the first time I don't know I know I was was it in the Bronx can I tell you well I know I was stabbing somebody the last person who asked me then she was like I saw you stabbing a guy when you I was like oh my god want me to tell you yeah I don't know if it was your first movie but it was Prison Songs my first movie and you came to me And you like, Joe, I'll fuck somebody up over you. You was going off. And I was like, yeah, Fat Joe loves me. He's going to protect me. And that was the first time I ever met you. And you was still. Still this beautiful person.

59:11I don't know if I was supposed to be the kid you had to fight with or Q-tip or one. I was supposed to be in prison. Yeah. We had a ball. It was in the Bronx, too. We shot that shit all in the. somehow always makes it back to the Bronx. I'm not trying to say it was just the Bronx, but it was the Bronx. You know what I'm saying? That was a fun time for me. I finally got my cheekbone in the movie. Like, I had been on, like, two, three movies before that. I don't know if it was I, like, and they got... You know, I never had a real role. That was the first time I had, like, a real role. Yeah. It was fun.

59:50I see that shit to this day. I spoke to Q-Tip yesterday. What's up with the guy? Shout out Q-Tip. Definitely. We need you all here. Oh, no, he gonna come. He's an eclectic friend. Special.

1:00:02Mary J. Blige:Yeah. Q-Tip's family. That's it. And the movie was, I carried the whole movie. I played the mother. And that shit was horrible. Like, when I look back at him, I'm like, oh, please, I don't ever want to see this scene. Nah, that was some real ghetto shit. Yeah. Low budget. Yo, sis, this residency, we flying out to Vegas. I love you was on Sherry. You said, she said, any guests, you said, the whole New York coming. But the whole New York is coming, it seems like. Listen, they got to buy them tickets. If you got to stay 17 in a hotel room, 17 people, go do it. Whatever you got to do, y 'all got to go out there.

1:00:47Get your tickets. You got to go out there get your tickets 25th anniversary correct? No more drama No more drama No more drama 25th anniversary Hey how do you listen Who that? We happy for everybody but sometimes I see some rappers I started with they missing teeth You know one day they snuck me in in the old school at noon Yeah Yo what happened? Go through the teeth colleagues man One day they paid me the badge and I don't know how they afforded me at an old school at noon and they threw the real bag, right? So I pull up in there and I'm looking at other legends. They dancing around Hennessy bottles, no teeth, this.

1:01:32I'm like, I closed the door. Like, what the fuck? They caught me in one of these? Old school at noon. I'm opening the door. These are legends too. Like... Hard to tell how you talking about them. What year you started? No, no, they legends. Well, what year you started your first record came out?

1:01:50Mary J. Blige:When my first, first record came out, I was still in Slow Mom, and that was the father MC, I'll Do For You. Facts. I wasn't signed nowhere. We felt like we made it off that. Crazy, look at me. I was still running around in Mofot and Cottage and Slow Mom at school. I was still deep in Donovan. Man, let me tell you something. In them Uptown records, right? Because today, you know, I was getting a massage. Shout out to Simone, my therapist. and you know I play that R &B shit in the back and they play some I'll be sure shit that I never heard it was on YouTube and the shit came on and I was like yo that's I'll be sure and I look up sure enough it was him like at that time the Duppertown Records it's you Father MC Heavy D and the boys Jodie C Christopher Williams it was just us how crazy was that?

1:02:50Because we look at the Jungle Brothers and we think about De La Soul Latifah, Bonilafah, like that right there. If y 'all did a show together like on TV, that would be like the Motown 20, like I don't think nobody's fucking with that.

1:03:03Mary J. Blige:Yeah, I forgot about De La Soul, sorry. I forgot to mention them too, like back in the days that we grew up on them. Yeah, the buddy was a big deal. but yeah that'd be crazy listen sis we want to keep you for 50 hours but they saying gotta promote man residency my life my life story my life my life story Vegas get your ticket don't call me definitely don't call LT don't call us get your ticket this ain't that that ain't this make some noise for MJ Thank y 'all. Thank you for having me. Thank you. Love you, MJ. Love you. Love both y 'all.

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