Mary J. Blige - Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip #252
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
Scroobius Pip
4.7 • 2.6K Ratings
🗓️ 13 February 2019
⏱️ 57 minutes
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Summary
Welcome, welcome, welcome to episode 252 of the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip! Ladies and gentlemen, we are in the presence of R&B and soul royalty right here… Please be standing and welcome MARY J. BLIGE!
“…When you give your all, you win…”
Absolute solid gold crown wearing greatness for you here, as Pip sits down with the phenomenal Ms. Blige for a thoroughly entertaining and uplifting chat. She’s been making the rounds in promotion of her new starring role as ‘Cha-Cha’ in the amazing ‘The Umbrella Academy’, an adaptation of an equally amazing graphic novel, and she spent some time breaking down the whole experience with Pip in this rare interview. They get to cover a HUGE amount of goodies, ranging from her love of the script and its connections to real life, being educated in how to correctly beat up a person and do a ton of crazy stunts (until things got a touch too insane), the madness of the costumes, her love of learning and growth through roles, how she killed it in a Christmas play as a kid, growing up in the projects and how that didn’t allow much room for dreaming, her non-braggy style and, of course, her illustrious and celebrated music career (including her friendship and career beginnings with a young Notorious BIG!). From music to acting but without ever losing sight or sound of her backgrounds, it’s a heartwarming one here folks as you might expect from a true veteran of the entertainment industry. You’ll love it.
LINKS FOR THIS EPISODE:
• MARY J BLIGE on THE INTERNET!
• MARY'S INCREDIBLE DISCOGRAPHY!
LINKS FOR SCROOBIUS PIP & SPEECH DEVELOPMENT:
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on FACEBOOK
• DISTRACTION PIECES NETWORK on INSTAGRAM
• NEW LISTENERS TAKE NOTE • You can find the full DISTRACTION PIECES episode list HERE!
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| 0:00.0 | This is a paid advertisement from Better Help. I've got a really clear memory when I first got a |
| 0:06.6 | dog of being really focused on how important all the things I have to do for this cute little guy |
| 0:13.6 | are. Like I need to make sure he's getting walks every day, fresh air every day, fresh water every |
| 0:21.1 | day, eating good food. And it becomes such a kind of a focus and a drive because you want to do all |
| 0:28.0 | you can for this little creature that you love. But we don't always put that much time and |
| 0:32.8 | attention into what we need for ourselves. Like what are our basic requirements to get through |
| 0:40.6 | life. And we need to focus on that more and Better Help can help with that. With over a thousand |
| 0:46.2 | therapists in the UK already, they can provide access to mental health professionals with a wide |
| 0:51.5 | variety of expertise in mental health. As far as I know, they've not got any that can help dogs, |
| 0:57.4 | but again, as long as you're dealing with that, then they can help you deal with you as well. |
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| 1:09.5 | B-E-T-T-E-R-H-E-L-P.com slash distraction pod. Welcome, welcome, welcome. This is the distraction |
| 1:18.4 | pieces podcast episode 252. And by God, is it a goodie? I mentioned last week that I wasn't going to |
| 1:25.6 | announce who this week's guests were because I don't like to announce them until they're actually |
| 1:28.8 | recorded and in the bag. But the good news is this week we've got two guests. One on Friday, |
| 1:35.0 | and that's Joe Cornish. That's Joe Cornish of Adam and Joe, and of Attack the Block. And of his new |
| 1:41.5 | film, The Kid Who Would Be King, which is fantastic, but we'll get into that on Friday. But today's guest |
| 1:48.6 | is a living legend in Mary J. Blige, the Queen of R&B and so. Yeah, hugely excited to have this |
| 1:59.7 | conversation. Before I get into it, I will mention number one, we had a great amount of response |
| 2:06.7 | on Twitter for the non-fast forward crew. Because I mentioned in last week's intro that I know there's |
| 2:14.8 | a certain amount of people who just fast forward the intro. As I get it, I guess they can get |
| 2:18.2 | repetitive. But you know, I like them on the podcast I listen to. The reason I do them is because I |
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