Mary J. Blige: The '90s
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In 1992, Mary J. Blige arrived like a revelation, an East Coast native with Anita Baker's throaty elegance and Puffy's rap-schooled production. With her lively early single “Real Love,” Blige led the decade's R&B evolution, a shift that had her zigzagging from hip-hop partnerships to the big-screen divorce anthem “Not Gon' Cry” to the strutting, Elton John-aided nightcap “Deep Inside.”