One of the other songs he produced was another Rose Royce cover - Love Dont Live Here Anymore for Faith Evans 1995 debut Faith.Īlexander was later called back in to do some mixing and recording. To circumvent this issue, Alexander insisted on having two more sessions with Bad Boy acts. However, the two butted heads over production credit issues, as Combs wanted to give credit to himself and Thompson, although neither were present for the songs recording session.Īlexander fought hard to seek production credit from Combs and the two battled it out over the phone over the issue.Ĭombs later explained it was due to receiving a flat royalty rate for producing the majority of the songs and Alexanders production credit would have interfered with the royalty rate. In the middle of recording My Life, Combs suggested covering Rose Royce s 1977 hit Im Going Down, which he wanted Alexander to handle the session. In 1996, following the albums success, MCA issued a remix EP entitled My Life Remix Album which featured artists such as LL Cool J and Lauryn Hill.Īlexander was brought in at the end of the record, after working on albums by other artists on Bad Boy Entertainment, such as Total, The Notorious B.I.G.
It also won the 1995 Billboard Music Award for Top RB Album. In 1996, the album was nominated for Best RB Album at the 38th Grammy Awards, while in December of the same year, the album was certified triple platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, for shipments of three million copies in the United States. Similar to her debut album, My Life features vast production from Sean Puffy Combs for his newly founded label, Bad Boy Entertainment, which was at the time backed by Arista Records.īliges second album to reach the top ten on the Billboard 200 chart, peaking at number seven, and debuting at number one on the Top RBHip-Hop Albums chart for eight weeks. Unlike her debut, Whats the 411 (1992), Blige co-wrote fourteen of the albums tracks, making it her most introspective and personal album at the time. Many of the topics on My Life deal with clinical depression, Bliges battling with both drugs and alcohol, as well as being in an abusive relationship. My Life Interlude Blige, Big Bub, Combs, Thompson Chucky Thompson, Sean Puffy Combs 1:15 12.īlige Released Novem( ) Recorded 199394 Studio Axis Studios Recording Clinton Recording Studios Daddys House The Hit Factory Sound on Sound Recordings (New York City) Genre RB 1 Length 64: 59 Label Uptown Producer Sean Puffy Combs ( exec.Ĭhucky Thompson Nashiem Myrick Dalvin DeGrate Herb Middleton Prince Charles Alexander Poke Mary J.īlige, released on November 29, 1994, by Uptown Records. Blidge, Mary J.Blidge, Mary J.Blige, Mary-J-Blige, Miss Mary J Blige, MJ Blige, MJB, Mjblige.
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