There have been quite a few hitmakers that Keyshia Cole has collaborated with throughout her career. The Bay Area singer has charted with songs like “Let It Go” with Missy Elliott and Lil Kim, “Last Night” with Diddy, “Trust” with Monica, and “Shoulda Let You Go” with Amina. While there are plenty of other artists that Keyshia Cole would love to work with, the singer spoke openly about her desire to connect in the studio with Mary J. Blige. While chatting with Hollywood Unlocked, Keyshia revealed that she just can’t seem to get a solid answer out of the R&B legend.

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Keyshia was on Instagram Live when a fan asked her if there was anyone that she would like to interview on her show. After she named Mary J. Blige, Keyshia delivered a couple of memories of Mary, including her failed attempts at getting the “No More Drama” singer in the booth.

“I ain’t gonna lie. I was so happy Mary even let me open up for her at a show that she had in Miami,” Keyshia Cole said. “I’ve been asking Mary for years and years to do a record because the fans want to hear it and it would have been amazing to do something like that at the height of my career and at the height of her career. That would have been super amazing, I felt like.”

According to Keyshia, it’s been a few years since she spoke with Mary J. and tossed around the idea of collaborating one day. “I asked her this last time and she said, ‘I don’t—I don’t know.’ And I was just like, ’Hm?’” Mary didn’t give Keyshia the green light, but she didn’t necessarily reject her, either. However, there’s been no progress.

“She said, ‘Don’t you prefer me to be honest with you about it?’ I said, ‘That’s true.’ ‘Cause at least she didn’t lead me on and tell me, ‘Probably.’ Even though ‘probably’ is better than no,” she reportedly said with a laugh. Would you want to hear these two on a track together?

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Last month, a Los Angeles judge dismissed an open lawsuit against the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, Mary J. Blige and her ex-husband Kendu Isaacs after the ex-couple and the opposing party failed to appear in court to determine a settlement. Back in Sept. 2018, the “Only Love” singer and her ex were sued by Golden Venus LLC for breach of contract for allegedly not paying nearly $60,000 in back rent, damaging their Beverly Hills mansion, and removing pre-installed audio-visual equipment that supposedly came with the house, according to court documents obtained by Bossip. 

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The landlord company claims that Blige and Isaacs caused $16,000 in damage to the property as well. However, Blige and her legal team refuted the company’s statement, revealing that she and Golden Venus agreed to cancel her current agreement and paid the business a lump sum that was less than her original contract to make sure that she was in good standing prior to vacating the property. Blige and her legal counsel also stated that Golden Venus would be “unjustly enriched” if she was forced to pay any more money than she already has and accuses the company of “unlawful or improper conduct” for the alleged damage and missing property from the mansion, but fails to state her reasoning. 

Fortunately, it appears that the conflict has been settled out of court as the case was dismissed. However, Golden Venus LLC does have the power to open up a new lawsuit against the multi-platinum singer/songwriter and her ex-husband/manager, Kendu Isaacs, if they choose to. 

Since filing for divorce from her husband in 2016, Mary J. Blige has had one of the most successful music career resurgences in recent memory. Diddy is currently executive producing a documentary the 49-year-old songstress and she currently has a major role in the Power Book II, Power spin-off series alongside Method Man. 

Check out Mary J. Blige’s short cameo in the upcoming Power Book II television series in the video provided below.

After being treated earlier to the highly-anticipated SZA and Justin Timerlake collaboration “The Other Side” and its surprise music video to accompany the release, we’ve now got a preview of the very loaded tracklist for the entire Trolls World Tour soundtrack.

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The compilation will feature a total of 20 tracks, including vocals from stars of the upcoming film like JT, Anderson .Paak, Mary J. Blige, Icona Pop, Kelly Clarkson, James Corden, Ester Dean, Kenan Thompson and music icon George Clinton. SZA is one of the musicians who appears on the soundtrack but not the film itself, in addition to HAIM and composer Ludwig Göransson. 

The Trolls World Tour soundtrack arrives in stores and on streaming services on March 13, with the film itself hitting theaters the following month on April 17.

Trolls World Tour Tracklist:

1. “The Other Side” – SZA & Justin Timberlake
2. “Trolls Wanna Have Good Times” – Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Ester Dean, Icona Pop, Kenan Thompson & the Pop Trolls
3. “Don’t Slack” – Anderson .Paak & Justin Timberlake
4. “It’s All Love” – Anderson .Paak, Justin Timberlake, Mary J. Blige & George Clinton
5. “Just Sing” – Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, Kelly Clarkson, Mary J. Blige, Anderson .Paak & Kenan Thompson
6. “One More Time” – Anthony Ramos
7. “Atomic Dog World Tour Remix” – George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic, Anderson .Paak & Mary J. Blige
8. “Rainbows, Unicorns, Everything Nice” – Walt Dohrn & Joseph Shirley
9. “Rock N Roll Rules” – HAIM & Ludwig Göransson
10. “Leaving Lonesome Flats” – Dierks Bentley
11. “Born to Die” – Kelly Clarkson
12. “Trolls 2 Many Hits Mashup” – Anna Kendrick, Justin Timberlake, James Corden, Icona Pop & the Pop Trolls
13. “Barracuda” – Rachel Bloom
14. “Yodel Beat” – Ludwig Göransson
15. “Crazy Train” – Rachel Bloom
16. “I Fall to Pieces” – Sam Rockwell
17. “Perfect for Me” – Justin Timberlake
18. “Rock You Like a Hurricane” – Rachel Bloom
19. “It’s All Love (History of Funk)” – George Clinton
20. “Just Sing (Trolls World Tour)” – Justin Timberlake, Anna Kendrick, James Corden, Kelly Clarkson, George Clinton, Mary J. Blige, Anderson .Paak, Rachel Bloom, Kenan Thompson, Anthony Ramos, Red Velvet, Icona Pop & Sam Rockwell

He’s responsible for belting out classics like “Missing You,” “Living It Up” with Ja Rule, and “Touch Me, Tease Me” with Mary J. Blige and Foxy Brown, but in recent years, Case hasn’t been involved much in the music scene as an artist. He was once one of Def Jam’s stars and the music video for his 1999 single “Happily Ever After” even featured Beyoncé as his love interest. In his recent feature on BET for Finding Case, the singer reflects on his career and how he topped the charts.

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According to Case, Misa Hylton, Diddy ex and the mother of his son Justin, was instrumental in getting Case’s music in front of the right people. Misa was best friends with Mary J. Blige and she connected the two singers together to write “Touch Me, Tease Me.” After they locked themselves in the studio penning the track, they decided that the song needed a rapper. Someone mentioned that Foxy was a Def Jam artist so there wouldn’t be a problem getting her to add her vocals to the song, and the rest is hip hop and R&B history.

Case also shared details about his love affair with Mary J. and how there were more collaborations between the two of them that were scrapped from his record a week before it was released. Her label didn’t want her in his music videos or on his record, so they threatened to sue him if she made appearances. At the last minute, they had to change things up and remove the “Real Love” singer’s vocals from his tracks. He also mentioned that their romance came to halt because he was trying to sneak around with other women while out on tour as Mary’s cousin was on the road with him as his hype man.

Check out his full feature below along with the music video for “Missing You.”.

50 Cent‘s beloved series Power is coming to an end in its final sixth season but fans know that there’s more coming since Mary J. Blige has confirmed that she will be leading the new spin-off series titled Power Book II. “This is probably the most exciting thing that’s going to happen to me this year,” MJB said. “I’ve been a fan of Power since the very beginning and I want to thank Courtney Kemp and 50 Cent for starting this conversation with me.”

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After the announcement, it was revealed that Method Man would also take part in the show and will play attorney Davis Maclean. Clearly the Power executives know how to get their fans pumped since they’ve just dropped off the first look at Mary’s character in the upcoming spin-off. The image sees Mary speaking sternly to another character, dressed in high fashion wear. “The Queen has stepped onto the scene,” the caption reads. 

Omari Hardwick, who stars as James “Ghost” St. Patrick, recently chatted about the end of the show and detailed how he would sum of the final chapter.”Chaos. Chaos, chaos, chaos. Some of the best acting and writing we’ve seen in all six seasons,” he said.

Mary J. Blige has been deemed a diva for the better part of her almost 30-year career, but the word was used more as a term of endearment as opposed to a “self-important person who is temperamental and difficult to please.” However, the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul’s ex-landlord is saying that she’s definitely the latter based off the way she allegedly trashed her former rental mansion and refused to pay back over $60,000 in rent on a west Coast mansion. 

Bossip is exclusively reporting that MJB is fighting those claims, claiming that her ex-landlord Golden Venus can’t legally come after her for the back rent case because they came to an agreement to cancel the rent contract altogether and ink a new deal. Also, Mary claims in court papers filed last week that she even paid Golden Venus a lump sum after leaving the Beverly Hills mansion, even though the settlement sum was less than the amount she actually owed. 

Based off the original report from Bossip, the landlord sued both Blige and her ex-husband, Kendu Isaacs, for breach of contract under the name “Golden Venus LLC” back in September 2018. She claims they “reneged” on an agreement to pay the rent then went on to not only damaging the property but also leave with A/V equipment they had no rights to take. The damages added up to $16,000, and unfortunately for Venus the case went into legal limbo for over a year after finding it difficult to serve either Blige or Isaacs with the lawsuit papers.

Blige went on to claim that, if forced to pay the amount listed in the lawsuit, Venus would be “unjustly enriched.” A default judgment hearing was actually scheduled for yesterday (Jan. 14), but after Mary filed her court papers the judge canceled it. No more drama, indeed!

Read the full report over on Bossip, and let us know if you think the Queen should pay up or stick to her guns.

As the series finale to Power closens, more information on the show’s spin-off series Power Book II is becoming more available since none other than Mary J. Blige is leading the upcoming hit. “This is probably the most exciting thing that’s going to happen to me this year,” Mary said of the series. “I’ve been a fan of ‘Power’ since the very beginning and I want to thank Courtney Kemp and 50 Cent for starting this conversation with me.”

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Deadline now reports that Method Man will be joining Mary in the show and will play attorney Davis Maclean. Method Man (born Clifford Vincenzo Smith Jr.) and Mary are no rookies when it comes to collaboration. They previously won Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for their 2003 single, “You’re All I Need.” 

Power Book II is currently under production in New York and details on the premise or more stars to join are being kept at a low. “Now you know shit is about to get crazy. POWER BOOK II MJB,” 50 Cent shared on Instagram when showcasing the first poster for the show. Keep it locked for more details and get ready for the series said to be arriving later this year. 

MGM’s forthcoming biopic about late soul singer Aretha Franklin is a film that Motown fans can’t wait to see on the silver screen, but not everyone is praising the film for tackling the life of the Queen of Soul. Over the last few months, we’ve received behind-the-scenes sneak peeks at production thanks to the paparazzi, showing powerhouse vocalist Jennifer Hudson starring as the late icon.

Forest Whitaker, Marlon Wayans, and Mary J. Blige are just a few notable names in the star-studded cast, but while they have been working diligently to create a buzz-worthy film, Franklin’s family is apparently less than enthused with the production. The late singer’s youngest son Kecalf Franklin wrote a scathing post on Facebook condemning the creators of the biopic for excluding the Franklin family.

“ONCE AGAIN….. THE FRANKLIN FAMILY (DOES NOT) SUPPORT THE MOVIE THAT IS IN PRODUCTION!!!!!” Kecalf wrote. “NOR DO WE SUPPORT THE BOOK ‘THE QUEEN NEXT DOOR’!!!!! NEITHER ENTITY FELT THE NEED TO CONTACT THE (CORE) FAMILY ABOUT ANYTHING!!!! HOW CAN YOU MAKE A MOVIE ABOUT A PERSON AND NOT TALK TO THE PERSONS SONS OR GRANDCHILDREN ABOUT IMPORTANT INFORMATION? HOW CAN YOU PUT A PERSONS FAMILY (IMAGE) IN A BOOK AND NOT ASK PERMISSION?”

Kecalf then speaks directly to those who have supported Aretha Franklin throughout her career. “IF YOU ARE A ‘REAL’ FAN OF MY MOTHERS….PLEASE DO NOT SUPPORT THIS. ASK YOURSELF.…WOULD YOU WANT THIS DONE TO YOU? (side note: the ‘ONLY’ person my mother was in favor of for the movie was JENNIFER HUDSON. period. Everything else is being done against our wishes) (please share) THE ‘REAL’ FRANKLIN FAMILY (sons and grandchildren).”

The Franklin family have been at odds since the passing of Aretha as they attempt to figure out how to distribute her estate. Sabrina Owens, Aretha’s niece, has been named as the estate’s executor, but Kecalf has written a petition asking to be granted the title, instead.