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| | Guardian Unlimited Arts Arts features Quite contrary |
 | | Mary J Blige is a force of nature, in other words, a trailblazer - and she knows it, and gives it a nod even now, 14 years into her career. |
 | | From the record business, to her family, to white America, singer Mary J Blige hasn't a good word for anyone. |
 | | It was like, 'Wow, they really expect for me to be dead.' I think the music business in general, all the record companies, were going, 'We need a Mary J Blige.' In their mind, they already thought that I was dead." |
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