Mary J. Blige is getting her Hollywood Walk of Fame star very soon, which is honestly more of a boon for the Hollywood Walk of Fame than it is for Mary J. Blige at this point.

Musically, and in interviews.

The Waiting to Exhale soundtrack was released 22 years ago today—so congrats on your year of legal drinking age, Exhale! I know 22 years isn’t a nice, rounded milestone in our arbitrary understanding of important anniversaries, but I did want to take the excuse to briefly reflect on a benchmark ’90s R&B album that I…

For her role as a World War II-era matriarch in Dee Rees’s Netflix film Mudbound, Mary J. Blige had to revert to a version of herself that initially made her uncomfortable. No makeup, no lashes, no wig. In recent interviews, Blige has explained how difficult it was to deglamorize herself on screen. I didn’t realize…

Robin Thicke, after allegations by his 7-year-old-son of using “excessive force,” has finalized a custody battle with Paula Patton, TMZ reports. As of February, Patton had filed a restraining order and Thicke was only allowed to see his son with a court-appointed monitor. This is fabulous news, since it’s hopefully…

Mary J. Blige has been ordered to pay $30,000 a month in spousal support to her estranged husband Martin “Kendu” Isaacs as part of divorce proceedings.

In a breathtaking—but all too expected—display of unselfconscious privilege, Kylie Jenner revealed the key to the delicious Lip Kit swatches featured on both her Snapchat and Instagram accounts: her housekeeper. And no, she does not deign to identify her by name.

“It’s hard to speak in a world where everything can get out and hurt you,” Mary J. Blige says in a documentary about the recording of her Strength of a Woman in which she also alludes to her estranged husband’s alleged mistress.

A little over 15 years ago, at the 2002 Grammy Awards, Mary J. Blige performed one of her greatest exorcisms. This was seven months after the release of No More Drama, and she arrived on stage in a gold lamé suit, hair curled up in a windblown crop, to sing the album’s title track, a transcendent anthem that builds…

Serena Williams, American treasure and the greatest living athlete according to this person who does not follow sports at all, announced her pregnancy on Snapchat last week to the surprise and delight of her many fans. Not only is she expecting a child with her Reddit co-founder fiancé, she proved that pregnancy…

The narrative surrounding Mary J. Blige’s formidable career as the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul has, from the beginning, been one of overcoming adversity.

Last month Kendall Jenner did a ballet-themed shoot for Vogue España and found herself at the center of piping hot ballet drama.

Azealia Banks went to Russell Crowe’s house for dinner Sunday night and, following some sort of altercation, was kicked out. Russell Crowe didn’t apologize for kicking her out, but I guess she thought he should have, because she went to the cops.

This month, Mary J. Blige will debut a show called The 411, which seems like it will include at least one episode of musical social justice and conversation with Hillary Clinton. In this clip, Blige sings what seems to be a heartfelt lesson of safety protocol for black youth in dealing with police.

Most music videos are made by a collection of musicians, directors, writers, cameramen, stylists, performers, and other audio-visual artists and specialists who have come together for the love of a song—or a paycheck. Other music videos, such as the one for Mary J. Blige’s “World’s Gone Crazy,” are not so much “made”…

Whenever a popular entertainer experiences devastating or scandalous news in their lives, the media is obligated to find ways to tie their material into the personal matter at hand, especially when it comes to singers. Such was the case with Mary J. Blige and her divorce “drama.”

There’s not much justice in the world of reality TV, so it’s very possible that La’Porsha Renae, who is by far the most talented and effortless performer to grace the stage of this season of American Idol, will not win. (Despite this season’s preponderance of women at the start, the competition has been whittled down…

“Women find it very difficult at times to find music,” a totally credulous Jimmy Iovine said Thursday on CBS This Morning, while seated next to Mary J. Blige, a woman who has a decades-long body of work about being self-sufficient in life, love and—yes—music.

Taylor Swift continues to grow her “girl squad,” consuming members despite gender, age or relevancy. On Friday, she welcomed Kobe Bryant, a man who is truly an inspiration for young women everywhere. Her Saturday concert in Los Angeles included incredibly random additions as Matt LeBlanc and Chris Rock joined her on…