{"id":485615,"date":"2019-05-08T15:20:46","date_gmt":"2019-05-08T21:20:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=833144"},"modified":"2019-05-08T15:20:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-08T21:20:46","slug":"mary-j-blige-nas-team-for-resolute-new-song-thriving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-nas-team-for-resolute-new-song-thriving\/","title":{"rendered":"Mary J. Blige, Nas Team for Resolute New Song \u2018Thriving\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/mjbnas.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Weeks after announcing a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-nas-team-up-for-summer-tour-822987\/\">joint summer tour<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/mary-j-blige\/\" id=\"auto-tag_mary-j-blige\" data-tag=\"mary-j-blige\">Mary J. Blige<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/nas\/\" id=\"auto-tag_nas\" data-tag=\"nas\">Nas<\/a> teamed for a new collaborative single, \u201cThriving.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">With its melismatic vocal hooks, the track showcases Blige\u2019s soulful voice throughout as she reflects on overcoming challenges. \u201cLook what I did \u2014 I made history\/They don\u2019t know what to do with me,\u201d she sings over a sampled guitar stab and pulsating kick drum. \u201cAin\u2019t looking back \u2014 keepin\u2019 it movin\u2019\/I know exactly how to do this.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Nas appears halfway through with a brief verse, name-dropping Muhammad Ali and squashing negative energy. \u201cWe here for a good time, not a long time,\u201d he proclaims. \u201cAnd no bad vibe is gonna spoil mine.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">The duo debuted the song Wednesday on Ebro Darden\u2019s Beats 1 radio show, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.complex.com\/music\/2019\/05\/mary-j-blige-nas-thriving\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Complex<\/a> reports. In an interview, Blige hyped both the song and 22-date tour, which launches July 11th in West Palm Beach, Florida.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">\u201cI was hanging out with [Nas] and Puff around New Year\u2019s Eve, and the next day, I think maybe two days later, I got a text from him saying, \u2018Do you want to go on the road together?&#8217;\u201d the singer recalled. \u201cIt all made sense because we came out in 1994, both of us. And it\u2019s the 25th anniversary of both of our albums.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Blige and Nas have previously teamed up in the studio, including 1997\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=g16Y3Q8GANA\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Love is All We Need<\/span><\/a>\u201d from the former\u2019s third album,&nbsp;<em>Share My World<\/em>, and \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=nZ9IDp0sg4M\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\"><span class=\"s2\">Reach Out<\/span><\/a>\u201d from the rapper\u2019s 2012 album,&nbsp;<em>Life is Good<\/em>.&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-nas-new-song-thriving-833144\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Weeks after announcing a joint summer tour, Mary J. Blige and Nas teamed for a new collaborative single, \u201cThriving.\u201d With its melismatic vocal hooks, the track showcases Blige\u2019s soulful voice throughout as she reflects on overcoming challenges. \u201cLook what I did \u2014 I made history\/They don\u2019t know what to do with me,\u201d she sings over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-485615","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-18 22:13:42","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KQZR - The Reel","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485615","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=485615"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/485615\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=485615"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=485615"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kqzr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=485615"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}