Mary J. Blige releases a brand new song titled “Stay With Me“. Mary J. Available for download and streaming on your favorite platforms, Blige and Nas announced a co-headlining tour for this summer, set to kick off July 11 in West Palm Beach, Florida. The tour will run through September and feature stops in 22 cities, including Atlanta, Detroit, St. Louis, and San Francisco.
Blige will also play solo shows in Jacksonville, Atlantic City, and Las Vegas. (Curiously, there is no scheduled date for the pair’s mutual hometown, New York City.)
Blige has previously co-headlined tours with Maxwell and one-time Nas rival JAY-Z. Her last album, Strength of a Woman, was released in 2017 — a banner year for her, as she also starred in and contributed the song “Mighty River” to the film Mudbound. (Blige became the first person ever nominated for an acting and Original Song Oscar in the same year.)
She also showed up as a time-traveling assassin in Netflix’s The Umbrella Academy earlier this year. Nas’ last release, Nasir, dropped in 2018 as part of Kanye West’s “Wyoming Sessions” summer blitz. While it’s their first tour, the two have teamed up in the past, including 1997’s “Love is All We Need” from her third album Share My World, and “Reach Out” off Nas’ 2012 album Life is Good. In 2013, Blige called Nas a “prophet.
He’s always been the person with the message. He’s just always been a great person. He’s very into what he is doing. He has a lot of integrity and his life shows that.”
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