19 Times Mary J. Blige Kept It All The Way Real About Love

If the love (and heartbreak) didn't feel like a Mary J. Blige song, it wasn't real.

1. "Real Love" – What's The 411? (1992)

Uptown Records

Heartfelt lyric: "Oh when I met you I just knew, that you would take my heart and run"

2. "Reminisce" – What's The 411? (1992)

Uptown Records

Heartfelt lyric: "I recall the days in ways of love we made, I still feel the heat when we shared each other"

3. "My Life" – My Life 1994

Uptown Records

Heartfelt lyric: "You'll be at peace with yourself, you won't really need no one else, except for the man up above, because He'll give you love"

4. "Be Happy" – My Life (1994)

Uptown Records

Heartfelt lyric: "How can I love somebody else, if I can't love myself enough to know, when it's time, time to let go"

5. "I'm Going Down" – My Life (1994)

Uptown Records

Heartfelt lyric: "Why'd you have to say goodbye, look what you've done to me, I can't stop these tears from fallin' from my eyes"

6. "Everything" – Share My World (1997)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "You take me away from the pain, and you bring me paradise, and when there were cloudy days you brought sunshine in my life"

7. "I Can Love You" – Share My World (1997)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "I can love you better than she can"

8. "Not Gon Cry" – Waiting To Exhale Soundtrack (1995)

Arista Records

Heartfelt lyric: "Through sickness and health 'till death do us part, those were the words that we said from our hearts, so now when you say that you're leaving me, I don't get that part"

9. "Give Me You" – Mary (1999)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "You don't have to promise me the stars, just promise me love, inside your heart"

10. "All That I Can Say" – Mary (1999)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "I've always been curious, needing someone serious, looking for someone who loves like me, but the day I stopped my search, it seemed that you were put on Earth, to show me everything I could not see"

11. "Rainy Dayz" ft. Ja Rule – No More Drama (2001)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "It's just those rainy days, spend a lifetime tryin to wash away, until the sun come out and shines again, smile for me"

12. "No More Drama" – No More Drama (2001)

MCA Records / Via mtv.co.uk

Heartfelt lyric: "Broken heart again, another lesson learn, better know your friends, or else you will get burned"

13. "Be Without You" – The Breakthrough (2005)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "See this is real talk, I’ma always stay (no matter what), good or bad (thick and thin)

right or wrong (all day everyday)"

14. "Take Me As I Am" – The Breakthrough (2005)

MCA Records

Heartfelt lyric: "So take me as I am, or have nothing at all"

15. "No One Else Will Do" – The Breakthrough (2005)

Geffen Records

Heartfelt lyric: "Don’t let ‘em tell you nothing different, you’re the only one I’m needing, I don’t want no one but you, baby no one will do"

16. "911" with Wyclef Jean – The Ecleftic: 2 Sides II a Book (2000)

Columbia Records

Heartfelt lyric: "If this is the kind of love that your mom used to warn you about

man, we are in trouble, you're in real big trouble"

17. "Come Close" with Common – Electric Circus (2002)

Geffen Records

Heartfelt lyric: "I know this world is crazy, what's it without you"

18. "IfULeave" with Musiq Soulchild – OnMyRadio (2008)

Atlantic Records

Heartfelt lyric: "If you believe you'll do best without me, then I'll let it go boy, Its over"

19. "All I Need" with Method Man – Tical (1994)

Def Jam / Via share.gifyoutube.com

Heartfelt lyric: "I'm realizing that 'cha didn't have to fuck with me, but 'cha did, now I'm going all out kid"

Happy birthday to the Queen of Hip Hop Soul! Thanks for giving us the soundtrack of our love lives!

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