Follows the first 'normal' track, "Don't Go", which pretty representatively sets the mood for the entire, 70-minute album. Starts with a unique, movie-like intro in which Mary is getting a call from P.Diddy, before Jay-Z gets his rap job done.
Dre-produced "Family Affair", but, for that matter, is more consistent. "Love & Life" does not include such killer singles as the previous album's title track "No More Drama" or the stellar Dr. Times have changed but she still sounds fresh and groovy. On this, not less than a sixth regular album since the 1992 breakthrough debut "What's The 411", the songstress teams up again with Sean (P.Diddy) Combs, with who she collaborated on the 1994 release "My Life", still considered by many to be her best. Blige proves with her 2003 album "Love & Life" that she is still up there at the top of contemporary r&b.
“She’s putting her foot down and saying ‘No more drama.’ And ironically doing it to a soap opera theme with a hip-hop beat.In the times when being a diva becomes more or less a caricature, Mary J. “It was her album’s title track and a very pivotal single for her because it was her declaration after all these records and all these years of abuse and sadness,” he continued. When we went to New York, she listened to it and said: ‘You been following me around with a spy or something? This is exactly what I’m feeling. We wrote all the lyrics, but always with the intention that she would rewrite it to make it personal to her. “We figured Mary was at a point in her life that she knew about drama and it was a song lyrically she could sing. “I’m a big soap opera fan, and I always wanted to do something using The Young and the Restless theme,” Jam admitted. Jam and Lewis reflected on the process of creating the song in a 2015 interview with Rolling Stone.
The release of the No More Drama album was a turning point in Blige’s life and career, as she was shedding the past and stepping fully into the person that she is today. And after she rose to fame in the 1990s, she faced personal strife behind closed doors thanks to things like her tumultuous relationship with Jodeci singer K-Ci. Throughout her life, Blige has found herself in the middle of several “dramas.” As a young girl growing up in the projects, she witnessed and experienced abuse and addiction.
‘No More Drama’ was a crucial part of her life
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