![]() Blige solidified the pop hybrid into a defined form for the next generation to follow in her 1992 debut What’s the 411? Her first outing marked a point in history when New Jack Swing’s chunky drum-machine snaps simmered into the chillness of boom-bap. The influence of hip-hop began to seep into R&B by the end of the ’80s - a period that soon saw Bell Biv Devoe incorporate rap’s swagger in the era-defining “Poison” - and Mary J. Blige laid out her own musical foundations on 1994’s My Life. After writing the early blueprint for ’90s R&B, Mary J.
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