Mary J. Blige | Lyrics

Mary J. Blige titled her 2001 album No More Drama, but there's been plenty of drama to go around over the course of her career. From the beginning she was dubbed the fresh-voiced Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, a title she's maintained even...

Song Lyrics Album Video Year
(You Make Me Feel Like) A Natural Woman Ballads play 2001
Don't Go Ballads   2001
I Don't Want to Do Anything [Live] Ballads   2001
Your Child Ballads   2001
No Happy Holidays Ballads   2001
Missing You Ballads   2001
I Love You Ballads   2001
You Remind Me Ballads   2001
Everything Ballads   2001
Slow Down Ballads   2001
Give Me You Ballads   2001
Give Me You [Extended Nino Radio Mix] Dance for Me play 2002
He Think I Don't Know [HQ2 Club Mix] Dance for Me   2002
Rainy Dayz [Thunderpuss Remix] Dance for Me   2002
Everything [Curtis + Moore Remix] Dance for Me   2002
Your Child [Junior Vasquez Remix] Dance for Me   2002
Never Been [Al B. Rich Z Step Groove Remix] Dance for Me   2002
Family Affair [Spanish Fly Remix] Dance for Me   2002
Let No Man Put Asunder Dance for Me   2002
No More Drama [Thunderpuss Remix] Dance for Me   2002
What's the 411? iTunes Original Project   2006
Good Woman Down [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version] iTunes Original Project   2006
I'm Goin' Down iTunes Original Project   2006
Not Gon' Cry iTunes Original Project   2006
Sweet Thing iTunes Original Project   2006
Be Without You [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version] iTunes Original Project   2006
Everything iTunes Original Project   2006
Take Me as I Am [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version] iTunes Original Project   2006
Baggage iTunes Original Project   2006
Family Affair [Itunes Originals Acoustic Version] iTunes Original Project   2006
Not Today Love & Life play 2003
Love @ 1st Sight Love & Life play 2003
All My Love Love & Life   2003
When We Love & Life   2003
Press On Love & Life   2003
It's a Wrap Love & Life   2003
Message in Our Music (Interlude) Love & Life   2003
Let Me Be the 1 Love & Life   2003
Willing & Waiting Love & Life   2003
Love & Life Intro Love & Life   2003
Finally Made It (Interlude) Love & Life   2003
Friends Love & Life   2003
Special Part of Me Love & Life   2003
Feel Like Makin Love Love & Life   2003
Don't Go Love & Life   2003
Ooh! Love & Life   2003
Ultimate Relationship (A.M.) Love & Life   2003
Give Me You Mary play 1999
Deep Inside Mary play 1999
All That I Can Say Mary play 1999
Your Child Mary play 1999
The Love I Never Had Mary   1999
Memories Mary   1999
Let No Man Put Asunder Mary   1999
Not Lookin' Mary   1999
Beautiful Ones Mary   1999
No Happy Holidays Mary   1999
Time Mary   1999
Don't Waste Your Time Mary   1999
I'm Going Down My Life play 1994
Be Happy My Life play 1994
You Bring Me Joy My Life play 1994
No One Else My Life   1994
Mary's Joint My Life   1994
Don't Go My Life   1994
Be With You My Life   1994
Mary Jane (All Night Long) My Life   1994
I Love You My Life   1994
Marvin Interlude My Life   1994
I'm the Only Woman My Life   1994
My Life (Interlude) My Life   1994
My Life My Life   1994
I Never Wanna Live Without You My Life   1994
You Gotta Believe My Life   1994
Intro My Life   1994
Family Affair No More Drama play 2001
No More Drama No More Drama play 2001
2 U No More Drama   2001
Forever No More - Poem No More Drama   2001
Crazy Games No More Drama   2001
PMS No More Drama   2001
Destiny No More Drama   2001
Testimony No More Drama   2001
Where I've Been No More Drama   2001
Flying Away No More Drama   2001
In The Meantime No More Drama   2001
Never Been No More Drama   2001
Steal Away No More Drama   2001
Love No More Drama   2001
Keep It Moving No More Drama   2001
Beautiful Day No More Drama   2001
Family Affair Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
Be Happy Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
Reflections (I Remember) Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
Real Love Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
We Ride (I See the Future) Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
911 Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
You Know Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
My Life '06 Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
I'm Going Down Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
No More Drama Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
No One Will Do Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
I'll Be There for You/You're All I Need to Get By [Razor Sharp Mix] Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
Not Gon' Cry Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
Be Without You Reflections (A Retrospective)   2006
I Can Love You Share My World play 1997
Everything Share My World play 1997
Love Is All We Need Share My World play 1997
Share My World Share My World   1997
Searching Share My World   1997
Round and Round Share My World   1997
Share My World (Interlude) Share My World   1997
Get to Know You Better Share My World   1997
Thank You Lord (Interlude) Share My World   1997
Can't Get You off My Mind Share My World   1997
Keep Your Head Share My World   1997
Intro Share My World   1997
Missing You Share My World   1997
Not Goin' Cry Share My World   1997
Our Love Share My World   1997
Enough Cryin The Breakthrough   2005
Good Woman Down The Breakthrough   2005
Take Me as I Am The Breakthrough   2005
Be Without You The Breakthrough   2005
Gonna Breakthrough The Breakthrough   2005
Alone The Breakthrough   2005
About You The Breakthrough   2005
Ain't Really Love The Breakthrough   2005
Can't Hide from Luv The Breakthrough   2005
One The Breakthrough   2005
Baggage The Breakthrough   2005
No One Will Do The Breakthrough   2005
I Found My Everything The Breakthrough   2005
Father in You The Breakthrough   2005
Can't Get Enough The Breakthrough   2005
Everything The Tour play 1998
Not Gon' Cry The Tour play 1998
I'm Going Down The Tour play 1998
Real Love The Tour play 1998
Missing You The Tour   1998
Love No Limit The Tour   1998
Reminisce The Tour   1998
Sweet Thing The Tour   1998
Mary's Joint The Tour   1998
Summer Madness The Tour   1998
Mary Jane (All Night Long) The Tour   1998
Keep Your Head The Tour   1998
Share My World The Tour   1998
You Remind Me The Tour   1998
I Can Love You The Tour   1998
My Life The Tour   1998
Thank You Lord The Tour   1998
Slow Down The Tour   1998
You Gotta Believe The Tour   1998
Intro The Tour   1998
I'm the Only Woman The Tour   1998
You Remind Me What's the 411? play 1992
Love No Limit What's the 411? play 1992
Reminisce What's the 411? play 1992
Slow Down What's the 411?   1992
What's the 411? What's the 411?   1992
Changes I've Been Going Through What's the 411?   1992
I Don't Want to Do Anything What's the 411?   1992
Sweet Thing What's the 411?   1992
Real Love What's the 411?   1992
My Love What's the 411?   1992
You Don't Have to Worry What's the 411? Remix play 1992
Love No Limit What's the 411? Remix   1992
What's the 411? What's the 411? Remix   1992
Reminisce What's the 411? Remix   1992
Sweet Thing What's the 411? Remix   1992
My Love What's the 411? Remix   1992
You Remind Me What's the 411? Remix   1992
I Don't Want to Do Anything What's the 411? Remix   1992
Real Love What's the 411? Remix   1992
Changes I've Been Going Through What's the 411? Remix   1992

Full Description

Mary J. Blige titled her 2001 album No More Drama, but there's been plenty of drama to go around over the course of her career. From the beginning she was dubbed the fresh-voiced Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, a title she's maintained even as she's evolved into a more polished and expressive vocalist who's managed to turn personal happiness into a rich and inspiring sound. As Blige sings in her 2001 track "Testimony," "Everything will be okay ... Trouble don't last always."

There's been plenty of turmoil for the Bronx-born Blige to work her way through in her songs, however -- an abusive relationship with K-Ci Hailey of Jodeci and rugged bouts of drug and alcohol abuse and depression. Unlike numerous other songwriters who have succumbed to the darkness in their lives, however, Blige's lyrical work has always been marked by a desire to find the light and achieve a genuine inner peace, with a strong spiritual underpinning. In the title track of My Life, her sophomore album and first as the primary songwriter (her landmark 1992 debut, What's the 411?, was written mostly by others), Blige advises that "I know we are all struggling/But we will all get by/And if you don't believe in me/Just believe in He."

The rest of Blige's albums have tracked the gradual improvement of her personal fortunes, which accelerated in 2000 when she hooked up with music executive Martin Kendu Isaacs, who she married in 2003. Two years later she achieved a new high water mark of expression with The Breakthrough, a stock-taking opus on which she confronts the "Baggage" of her earlier years, while "Father in You" pays tribute to Isaac's filling of a deep void in her life that helped send Blige into some of her more destructive behaviors. The emotional levy is apparently holding; in the lyrics to "Just Fine," the first single from her 2007 album Growing Pains, Blige assures us that she's "got my head on straight/I got my mind right/I ain't gonna let you kill it/You see, I wouldn't change my life/My life's just fine, fine, fine ..." You go, girl.

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