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What's the 411?Mary J. Blige
Soul & R&B · 1990s

What's the 411?

Mary J. Blige
Released 1992Soul & R&B
EssentialPicked by a lifelong record collector

A foundational hip-hop-soul debut. Sharp and influential. A genre cornerstone. Released in 1992, it's an early landmark for Mary J. Blige.

On vinyl: Vinyl can be scarcer than the CD from this era, so it's worth looking for a recent repressing.

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