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Love & Life by Mary J. Blige (CD, Aug-2003, Geffen Records USA) 
Love & Life by Mary J. Blige (CD, Aug-2003, Geffen Records USA)

 
Love & Life by Mary J. Blige (CD, Aug-2003, Geffen Records USA)

Release Date: Aug 2003
Format: CD
Record Label: Geffen Records (USA)
Genre: Contemporary R&B, R&B
UPC: 602498606117
Product ID: EPID3516549
Description: Personnel: Mary J. Blige (vocals); Jay Z. P. Diddy, Eve, Method Man, 50 Cent (rap vocals); Sean Foote, Stevie J., Mario Winans (various instruments); Joel Woolfolk (guitar); Mike Elizondo (keyboards, bass); Ron Feemster (keyboards); Kand...
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Track Listing
1. Love & Life - (featuring Jay-Z)
2. Don't Go
3. When We
4. Not Today - (featuring Eve)
5. Finally Made It - (interlude)
6. Ooh!
7. Let Me Be the 1 - (featuring 50 Cent)
8. Love @ First Sight - (featuring Method Man)
9. Willing & Waiting
10. Free - (interlude)
11. Friends
12. Press On
13. Feel Like Making Love
14. It's a Wrap
15. Message in Our Music - (interlude)
16. All My Love
17. Special Part of Me
18. Ultimate Relationship

Details
Contributing Artists:50 Cent, Eve, Jay-Z, Mario Winans, Method Man, P. Diddy
Distributor:Universal Distribution
Recording Type:Studio
Recording Mode:Stereo
SPAR Code:n/a

Album Notes
Personnel: Mary J. Blige (vocals); Jay Z. P. Diddy, Eve, Method Man, 50 Cent (rap vocals); Sean Foote, Stevie J., Mario Winans (various instruments); Joel Woolfolk (guitar); Mike Elizondo (keyboards, bass); Ron Feemster (keyboards); Kandace Love, Shannon Jones, Terri Robinson (background vocals).
Producers include: Sean "P.Diddy" Combs, Stevie J., D- Nat, Deric "D-Dot" Angelettie, Donald Lawrence.
LOVE & LIFE was nominated for the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Contemporary R&B Album. "Ooh!" was nominated for Best Female R&B Vocal Performance.
Perhaps the most telling track on Mary J. Blige's sixth record, LOVE & LIFE, comes on an interlude fairly early in the album, bearing the title "Finally Made It." She rambles back and forth, stream-of-consciousness style about loving her job, about breaks, about spirituality and other things for a little under two minutes. And within the folds of those haphazard moments lies honesty, an earnestness that has flowed through the singer's work since she claimed the crown as Queen of Hip-hop, crooning on WHAT'S THE 411? more than a decade ago.
LOVE & LIFE continues her legacy as she layers resolute, compelling vocals over 1970s-style smooth R&B, suffused through a beat box from the opening track, "Don't Go." As a vanguard at the fusion of hip-hop and R&B, her guest stars transcend the cliche, adding to the songs without overpowering them. Particularly of note are Method Man's turn on "Love @ First Sight" (best line--"you can't spell Mary J. Blige without JB") and Eve's appearance on the funky, off-kilter "Not Today" (as she intros it--"this is another one o' 'em Heartbreak Hotel joints for the ladies"). Through the years, Mary J. has remained true to her game, as real in 2003 as she was when she broke out.

Editorial Reviews
3 stars out of 5 - ...LOVE's greatest strength is the same as its predecessors': Blige simmering vocal intensity and the way it slowly boils over into catharic exultation...
Rolling Stone (09/18/2003)

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