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The blockbuster Jay-Z/Mary J. Blige tour shows off hip-hop’s savvy showbiz evolution

by Brian McCollum [Detroit Free Press (MCT)]

[23.Apr.08] :. Hip-hop had a problem. By the early 1990s, the style born in the Bronx had become a bona fide national phenomenon, a cultural force with the hits to match. Key moments in the evolution of...

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Mary J. Blige: Growing Pains

by Michael Arceneaux

[19.Dec.07] :. The new and improved Queen of Hip Hop Soul concedes the battle for true happiness is an ongoing one.

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