Yo, just a quick note to say that we will be taking one week off for the holiday, et cetera.

Just one week, so we will return promptly on Wednesday, July 13th.

Please enjoy yourselves in the meantime, and we'll talk then.

Thanks.

They met for the first time at Roseland Ballroom in Midtown Manhattan in the mid-90s.

He had a big afro and a brown leather coat because, he says, we was bums. We ain't give a fuck.

That's Staten Island for you. They'd both been invited to a party thrown by the notorious BIG.

No word on what she was wearing, but it's safe to assume she didn't give a fuck either.

That's yonkers for you. Here's what Method Man did say in an interview with Complex.

He says, I met Mary that night, and she told me she wakes up to bring the pain every goddamn day.

I was like, well shit.

I love the shit out of Mary J. Blige.

I came to bring the pain hardcore from the brain.

Let's go inside my gastro plane.

Find out my mental based on instrumental record so i can write

monumental but who doesn't what a lovely image this is mary j blage intergalactic diva r and bishops

professional wearer of sunglasses the queen of hip-hop, if you go in for that sort of thing,

with a clock radio next to her bed.

And every morning or mid-afternoon, it clicks on and starts blasting Method Man's 1994 hit,

Bring the Pain and her eyes slowly open.

Good morning, gorgeous.

It's like a Groundhog day, how Bill Murray wakes up to I Got You Babe at 6 a.m. every goddamn day, except this is like 10,000 times cooler. I just picture her brushing her teeth to this.

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