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 Share My World, 1997
MJB: "Share My World was a point where I was a little nervous, but not afraid. That was around the time Puff and I separated, and I was like, 'Yeah, I got to do this on my own,' but I was never afraid. People were saying, 'What you going to do without Puff?' and all that. If people were never saying that — and if I never was a person that listened to what people say — it probably would have been a better album. But there was a lot of confusion on that album because I was confused. I really don't understand what happened with the R. Kelly record on that, 'It's On.'
"There was so much shady, underhanded, rude, crazy stuff going on during Share My World, because I didn't have anyone and everybody was trying to help me and I didn't know what I was doing and I didn't know anything about business. At the end of the day, that only draws crooks to you. But it's not the crooks' fault, it's my fault for not knowing my business. So I don't hold anyone accountable that robbed me and did whatever they did at the time — I hold myself accountable because I didn't know my business. So that album is definitely an album of confusion and ignorance. All of them have ignorance and confusion on them, but that one right there was the spin-out, for real."
RATING: "It doesn't even have consistency from song to song. My Life we would just roll through, but Share My World, you have to stop sometimes and find out what you listening to. So I would give it an 8."
 The Tour [live], 1998
MJB: "Recording a live album from a concert is easy. You don't even care you're recording a live album. You're just doing what you do every single night. It's nothing to it. When I first got into the music business, I was performing pretty badly because I was insecure with what and who I was. I didn't even know who I was. When you don't know who you are, you can't deliver. For a long time I couldn't deliver, I was afraid. I was thinking I wasn't gonna hit notes. All I could hear was people in my head that talked about me that said 'Mary can't sing.' At the end of the day, I just couldn't deliver because I cared too much about what other people said and I didn't believe in myself at all.
"I came from an environment where nobody believed in you. Coming from the projects getting in the music business, a business where people around you don't want to do anything that see you fall and and fail. ... The more I paid attention to it, due to my insecurities, it made me a worse person and worse performer. So right now I'm in a place where it doesn't matter what you say about me… I'm not into catering to the negative. The positive is definitely making me a better person and performer."
RATING: "I would give that album a 4 because I sound terrible. I was doing bad in every kind of way. Vocally I was a mess. I was a mess period. I didn’t like the way I sound. I was screaming. It was crazy."
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