2011 is shaping up to be a big year for black music on the festival circuit in the United States.  The lineup for the 17th annual Essence Music Festival was announced and features such heavyweights as Kanye West, Mary J. Blige and Jill Scott amongst others.

The queen of R&B Mary J. Blige teamed up with Diddy and Lil Wayne on a new track titled “Someone To Love Me”. The song is actually a remix of the original Diddy-Dirty Money track ‘Someone to Love Me,’ which appeared on the group’s debut, ‘Last Train to Paris.’ Take a listen and tell us […]

Mary J. Blige hijacked this track from Diddy Dirty Money’s Last Train To Paris album and had Lil Wayne add on a verse.

And the beef goes on…Lil’ Kim couldn’t let a performance go by without mentioning her enemy Nicki Minaj. This New Year The Queen Bee hit the stage and performed her latest song “Black Friday.”

Who had the most memorable award show moment  of 2010? Was it Chris Brown crying during his Michael Jackson tribute or was it Kanye West’s return to the VMAs’ after “Taylor-Swift-Gate.”? Take a look at our list and let us know what you thought were the biggest moments on the small screen this year. 10) […]

Q-Tip revealed through his Twitter account yesterday that he’s doing tracks for the upcoming albums for Mary J. Blige and Beyoncé.

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Photo courtesy Michael Loccisano/Getty Images Jazmine Sullivan has been in the headlines a lot in the past few days with releasing the remix to “Holding You Down (Goin’ In Circles)” featuring Mary J. Blige and Monday she premiered the video to “Holding You Down (Goin’ In Circles)” on 106&Park. She’s currently on a six city […]

Jazmine Sullivan’s latest single “Holding You Down (Goin’ In Circles)” gets the remix treatment.

Swizz and Mary J came out for YRB Magazine’s Art Issue at Lucky Strike with Ciroc.

T.I.’s secret show went down Monday, as a part of Axe’s One Night Only concert series in New York City.

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According to XConnect: Mary J. Blige Sets Record Mary J. Blige has sold over 50,000 bottles of her new My Life perfume, setting a new record for the Home Shopping Network after just one day. She followed the likes of Diddy by selling her goods on the network.

After a week of back and forth speculation, it’s official.  Mary J Blige will not be a part of Howard University’s Class of 2014.