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Mary J. Blige’s “Growing Pains” Album Release Party was held Tuesday night at Soho Grand in New York City. Attendees included: Patti LaBelle, Chingy, J. Holiday and more. More photos after the cut.
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Mmmm Idris… everyone actually looks great! way to go Mary!
I LOVE TANK!
I am feeling Mary J and Patti with the floor length fur coats on…loving it!!!!!
Patty and Mary look very pimpish in those furs. I think that I am going to demand one for christmas!
Everybody looks great! Go Mary!
that fine ass idris elba that accent gives me goosebumps
Love this CD!!!
I’m lovin’ Patti’s hair.
I LOVE U MARY, U LOOK BEAUTIFUL AND I KNOW YALL WERE PARTYING TILL THE MORNING, LOL, I C U MELYSSA, TANK AND J HOLIDAY LOOK GOOD!
Patti looking like she FREEZING in that 2nd pic though!!!!!!!! Like man hurry up and take the pic so I can put my fur back on!!!!!!!!
Mary and Patti look hot! Black women age so beautiful!. And why is Melyssa for everywhere? She needs to let go of my man!
Tank and Idris are beyond sexy…Love Patti and Mary’s hair.
I’ve heard the CD and it’s doesn’t hold up to all the hype it’s getting to me. She has a few nice songs but not many, all her previous CD’s were better. Then again, what do I know, because Alicia Keys got a lot of hype for her release too and she only had 3 good songs on her CD to me. No one makes good music anymore!
Everybody looks good..
OOOPS, I MEANT CHINGY NOT J HOLIDAY, I DONT LIKE BRAIDS ON GUYS, PLEASE DONT SCOLD ME, LOL
Very nice, although I hate those fur coats.
Idris Elba and J. Holiday: *sigh* so sexy.
Wow, Patti looks younger than Mary J. in the first pic. She must have a really good plastic surgeon or some really good genes passed down from her family. Isn’t she like 65 ior something? Everybody else looks good except for Nik from Top Model. She looks like she either has a hangover or is coming down from a high, lol.
PETA going to get Mary she looks get tho. Her cd is fire go get it.
lol @ 18 peta is going to get her but im getting it to i really think this is going to be her best cd ever mary just been doing big and real things lately in the studio you go miss mary
Nik was never pretty to me…..she has the biggest mouth.
Kerry “Crucial” Brothers AKA A. Key’s man…..you need to go home and start over starting with those shoes tied up all tight….dam#!!!!!
Idris……I hate you got killed on “The Wire” you was dat real deal……
Melyssa Ford aka Drives a Honda Accord……hededet (however you say it from In Living Color)
I meant she looks good. Idris hot damn he is fine.
there is too much eye candy in this post…idris….whew! that man is sexy,then you got tank….then j holiday…ya’ll doin too much lol….even chingy.. boy oh boy
but patti lookin like mary momma in dat first pic….i cant wait to get mary’s album no lie.
I am half Mary’s age, but I would ___ ___ ___ !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! (sorry, Lord)
Idris, Idris, Idris, Idris, muthaf’n IDRIS! Man you are the one! I think I just came. *checkin seat for wet spot*
Patti you are one gorgeous lady. Kudos to you and your make up artist.
But didn’t Patti have that outfit on last night on “Clash of the Choirs”. I was wondering why she didn’t match up with her choir. Now I know. She had more important places to be.
I like Mary’s wristlet… I think Mary’s an intelligent spirit but I’m not a Mary fan…I get it, though, she’s singing something with a message…She’s like Keyshia Cole, but only genuine. (O/T but Keyshia needs to stop selling “realness” over talent before she ends up just grunting like some angry black woman to NWA instrumentals),
Ohhh, just thought of something…I wonder if Mary was upset when Aretha basically took Fantasia under her wing. Although, Mary was given the “Queen of Hip Hop/Soul” title, it was still understood that she was being compared to Aretha. And, now there’s “Momma” (Aretha) and “My Child” (Fantasia).
Hail Queen Mary! All her cds are classics.
Lovvvve my girl Ms. Pati LaBelle – Philly stand UP! She will always and 4ever be FLY.
Idris is sooo sexy. And his accent is just icing on the cake.
Tank and Mylessa Ford….Why are you even there? And what ever happened to “TGT”?
BATTLE OF THE FURS!! GO HEAD PATTY AND MARY
J. HOLIDAY…………………………..OOH
TANK CRANK
NICOLE IS BACK TO CURLY……..B O R I N G
WHY IS MY SEXY ASS MAN, TANK, ALL HUGGED UP WITH MELYSSA FORD?
Patti looks so good for her age. I bet it’s all that make-up, but who cares, she still looks damn good.
I’m feelin’ the fur coats as well. I know PETA is hella mad right now, lol.
Definitely gonna cop that ‘Growing Pains’ album by the end of this week.
Mary and Patti look good in those furs. I would like to see PETA roll up on either one of them LOLOL!!!
IT DOESNT PLEASE ME TO MENTION THIS BUT I MUST BECAUSE IT IS THE TRUTH AND IT MUST BE SAID:
MARY IS QUEEN OF HIP HOP AND R&B SOUL
I THINK THIS IS PRETTY MUCH COMPLETELY UNDISPUTED
WHY WASNT THERE ONE MAINSTREAM FEMALE R&B SINGER AT HER 8TH SOLO ALBUM RELEASE PARTY?
WHERE WAS:
BEYONCE
ALICIA
AMERIE
ASHANTI
KELLY
CIARA
&
RIHANNA??????
IF DOLLY PARTON HAD AN ALBUM RELEASE PARTY, BEST BELIEVE EVERY YOUNG FEMALE ASPIRING COUNTRY SINGER WITH AN OUNCE OF CREDIBILITY WOULD HAVE BEEN THERE IN SUPPORT OF THE QUEEN.
YOU GOTTA SHOW RESPECT TO THE PEOPLE WHO PAVED THE WAY FOR YOU
THIS IS EXACTLY WHY THERE IS ONLY ONE MARY
MARY HOLDS HER HEAD VERY WELL BECAUSE I KNOW SHE GOTTA BE BAFFLED BY THE LEVEL OF DISRESPECT THAT THESE YOUNG GIRLS SHOW FOR HER.
RIHANNA WAS EVEN BRAGGING IN A MAGAZINE ABOUT HOW SHE BEAT OUT MARY FOR THE UMBRELLA SONG.
IM GLAD MARY ADDRESSED THAT RECENTLY BY SAYING THAT HER MUSIC IS ORGANIC AND FOR THE SOUL AND SHE DONT HAVE TO DO THE SAME COOKIE CUTTER TYPE OF SONGS IN ORDER TO STAY RELEVANT.
THIS IS ALSO THE REASON WHY SHE HAS BEEN ABLE TO WEATHER THE STORMS THAT ALOT OF SINGERS NOW A DAYS CANNOT.
NOTICE MARY HAD PATTI LABELLE SUPPORTING HER
IF PATTI LABEL, A LEGEND IN HER OWN RIGHT, CAN FIND THE TIME TO CELEBRATE ANOTHER QUEEN, WHY CANT THE YOUNG FEMALE SINGERS OF TODAY DO THE SAME?
THIS IS WHY THEY WILL NEVER BE ON MARY’S LEVEL.
AND IF ANY OF THE LADIES THAT I MENTIONED WHERE THERE, THEN I APOLOGIZE.
patti looks so good! mary cant wait to hear this new cd.
AND I REALLY LIKE KEYSHA COLES TOO BUT I GOTTA ADD HER NAME TO THE LIST.
Nice @Mary’s fur….
Nice @JHoliday picture…I like the motioning for “come here”. Naughty naughty thoughts…Lol…I don’t know what is up with me today…First Mario thoughts now him….Need to get it together….
@ post 24, i feel you all the way about
Idris Elba, sexy, sexy and more sexy,
it just don’t make sense how fine he is.
Mary and Patty look really nice…I’m not a big fan of the fur…but they’re still beautiful women.
I love Mary J. , and Mary great artist! Cool party
@33 I understand what you’re saying…but we don’t know all the circumstances behind the party…where they invited…did they have previous engagements…Mary’s been in the game for awhile so I’m sure she wasn’t checking for those artists to be there for support…
#33
Maybe they were inside and just didn’t want to walk the carpet. I wonder where Oprah is now though, after reading your comment. She and Mary are BFF, right? She’s probably inside.
You listed lots of stars but there’s the possibility that they weren’t invited…Mary is very competitive…maybe she didn’t want them there. As for “Umbrella” Rihanna never bragged and Mary was NEVER upset because Rihanna got the song…it wasn’t until she asked the 3457349759347584754835th time about missing the “hit” that she replied, basically: I’m Mary and my career doesn’t depend on some producer delivering a “hit”.
Patti looks good…… I love her hair!
if you don’t have the cd, go cop it…
grown folks r&b…real talk
@26…not hardly. On Aretha’s new cd, ‘jewels in the crown,’ Mary is featured on two duets with her…on her previous cd, mary wrote and produced two songs for re re…so there is hardly any beef there…the deal with fantasia being ‘my child’ has to do with fantasia saying the #1 artist she wanted to meet after winning AI was Aretha…upon meeting Aretha it is said Fannie burst into tears and Aretha comforted her and told her how much she liked what she was doing in her music
@33…i feel what you saying, but let’s cut a lot of these girls a break..Bey is overseas promoting/filming for the new Armani Diamonds ad…rhianna and Ciara are on tour in London…as for the others, who cares…
Ummmmmmmm, why exactly does Melyssa Ford have a belt on around her damn coat.
@#26, I think Mary is above that…I can’t see her getting upset or bothered by something like that….
Lol@#24 and Idris….I feel you…
And whoever said they wished Idris didn’t get killed off of The Wire i’m with you…I haven’t watched it since he left….Not just bc of his looks but i liked his character….
Oh lawd, why must yall always try to create some drama when there is nothing there. Get over it.
PETA is a fraud.
PETA = People Eating Tasty Animals
ok…..
that nik girl has never been cute to me.
I’m sorry but that would be funny to see someone come out of no where and throw paint on someone that has on fur…Lol…It’s not funny for whoever is the target but i can just picture standing around, all is well, and someone runs out like a mad man and throw some paint….Lol…Crazy…
Three fine men Idris, Mr. Holiday and Chingy SMH
I’m not feeling none of MJB’s singles but best wishes to her…..
I betcha PETA won’t throw pig blood on Mary or Patti….i betcha that!
Damn you Idris……
#33 did it ever occur to you that maybe they werent invited after all,this isnt some event that all the stars come out to….this was a party for mary,i’m pretty sure mary chose who she wanted to be there…..she might not even personally know half of the people that you mentioned.
but i must agree about one thing…mary is da queen.
Mary don’t need any other R&B females at her party. She is MJB and thats all there is to it. Patti being there is good enough I am sure. Real recognize real.
Mary and Patti look fly in those furs. I bet PETA ain’t gonna mess with those 2, I’m sure somebody would leave cussed out lol
Idris, Chingy and J Holiday….there was some fine men up in that party..UMPH
But how odd that Kerry Brothers was there and no Alicia??….
PATTI KNOW SHE NEES TO GIVE ME THAT COAT
NICE TO SEE A LIVE J HOLIDAY IN THE HOUSE, PEOPLE AND THEIR RUMORS SMH
@ # 50 that would be funny lol!!!
Idris is Crown Royal on ice (#5 jill scott)
I feel you #33 i don’t think some of these broads have the respect for Mary that they should however I know CiCi and Rhi are in London touring and some of the others may be as well…anyway Mary’s doing her thing lookin fresh and all that and I hope when I reach Patti’s age I’m as fresh as her cuz she doin it, i mean the hair & face is flawless
Everyone else looks nice too..especially the fellas
@33, I really don’t think it’s that serious.
MJB’s CD is pure fiyah. Make sure you get that! And whoever said it’s grown folks music got that completely right!