Album
My Life
1994 · Hip Hop, Funk / Soul
4 collectors on Gatefold own this
My Life is a Soul & Funk album by Mary J. Blige, originally released in 1994. On Gatefold: 44 pressings tracked, owned by 4 collectors.
About
<b>100 Best Albums</b> With Mary J. Blige’s first album, <i>What’s the 411?</i>, the emerging “Queen of Hip-Hop Soul” had imbued diaristic R&B with a youthful hip-hop sensibility. For the follow-up, 1994’s career-defining <i>My Life</i>, the 23-year-old took it even more personal, drawing on her severe depression, struggles with drugs and alcohol, experiences with intimate partner violence, and the spiritual fortitude that carried her through it—all while trying to process her breakneck trajectory from a Yonkers housing project to worldwide fame. “I didn’t understand it then, because I didn’t feel like I was great in my heart,” she said in a 2021 documentary about the making of <i>My Life</i>. She cried in the recording booth making several of its song, including “I Never Wanna Live Without You.” “It was pain and joy all at the same time,” she would later recall. “These are the things that I was feeling.” .
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Tracklist
Side A
- A1Intro1:04
- A2Mary Jane (All Night Long)4:41
- A3You Bring Me Joy4:14
- A4Marvin (Interlude)0:40
- A5I'm The Only Woman4:32
- A6K. Murray (Interlude)0:24
- A7My Life4:19
- A8I Never Wanna Live Without You6:20
- A9I'm Goin' Down3:44
- A10My Life (Interlude)1:15
Side B
- B1Be With You4:27
- B2Mary's Joint5:02
- B3You Gotta Believe5:02
- B4Don't Go5:01
- B5I Love You4:33
- B6No One Else4:17
- B7Be Happy5:51
Sound DNA
- Soul & Funk
- Contemporary R&B
- velvety
- melancholic
- urban
Credits
The people behind it.
Performers
- Barry White
- Bassy Bob BrockmannDRUM PROGRAMMING, KEYBOARDS, STRINGS KEYBOARDS PROGRAMMED BY
- Big BubBACKING VOCALS BACKING VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY
- Bruce PurseTRUMPET
- Chucky ThompsonKEYBOARDS
- Curtis MayfieldPERFORMER , WRITTEN-BY
- Darryl PearsonBASS
- Diane MonroeVIOLIN
- Eileen FolsonCELLO
- Faith EvansBACKING VOCALS BACKING VOCALS, WRITTEN-BY
- Frank ColonPERCUSSION
- Fred McFarlaneKEYBOARDS
- Gloria AgostiniHARP
- Guy
- Herb MiddletonKEYBOARDS MUSIC BY, KEYBOARDS
- Jo Jo HaileyBACKING VOCALS
- JojoBACKING VOCALS
- K-CiBACKING VOCALS
4 collectors on Gatefold own this · 44 pressings tracked on Gatefold
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