Mary J. Blige (What's The 411? / The Umbrella Academy / Queen of Hip Hop Soul) • Friday Rewind
Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip
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🗓️ 1 May 2025
⏱️ 46 minutes
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emocleW, emocleW, emocleW to the Distraction Pieces Podcast with Scroobius Pip!
This is your bonus FRIDAY REWIND episode! Today, we catch up with Mary J. Blige, originally episode 252 from 2019-02-13.
Original writeup below:
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“…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.
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| 0:00.0 | Emmo Clue, in Mo Clue, immoclue, this is the distraction piece is Rewind, where every Friday |
| 0:05.8 | we delve into the decade-long back catalogue and bring you a gem that you might have forgotten |
| 0:09.8 | or might have missed at the time. And this is another episode, this. This is one that I've referenced |
| 0:14.9 | a lot. It's one of my favourite conversations, because it's with a true living legend. This week's chat is with Mary |
| 0:23.0 | J. Blige. Mary J. Blige. I got to sit down and chat with Mary. And we talk about their acting |
| 0:29.7 | career, but then we also get into music and we get into some big subjects, man, some big subjects. |
| 0:35.9 | So this was an absolute joy. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did. Let's get into it. Mary J. Blythe. This was in 2019. So we're going back six years here. |
| 0:47.5 | 2019. It was originally episode 252. This is me chatting with the living legend, Mary J. Blige. |
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