{"id":2445664,"date":"2019-06-24T08:48:52","date_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:48:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=851599"},"modified":"2019-06-24T08:48:52","modified_gmt":"2019-06-24T14:48:52","slug":"see-mary-j-blige-perform-career-spanning-medley-at-bet-awards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/music-news\/see-mary-j-blige-perform-career-spanning-medley-at-bet-awards\/","title":{"rendered":"See Mary J. Blige Perform Career-Spanning Medley at BET Awards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/06\/10320182dq.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p><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> delivered a 20-minute medley packed with hits and guests Method Man and Lil Kim during the 2019 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/t\/bet-awards\/\" id=\"auto-tag_bet-awards\" data-tag=\"bet-awards\">BET Awards<\/a>, where the singer <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-lifetime-achievement-award-2019-bet-awards-847577\/\">received the ceremony\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Blige\u2019s medley spanned hits like \u201cReal Love,\u201d \u201cYou Remind Me,\u201d My Life\u201d and more, while Lil Kim and Method Man dropped in for their guest verses on \u201cI Can Love You\u201d and \u201cYou\u2019re All I Need,\u201d respectively. Blige closed out the career-spanning performance with her \u201cJust Fine.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/p4uRmvTkuJo?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Rihanna presented Blige with the Lifetime Achievement Award, with the \u201cUmbrella\u201d singer praising the honoree. \u201cYou have set the bar for relatable, timeless, classic music. You opened multiple doors for female artists in this industry, and on behalf of all the women that came after you, like myself, thank you for being you, so we can feel comfortable being ourselves.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text\/html\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mx7an8JrEEc?version=3&amp;enablejsapi=1&amp;origin=https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com&amp;rel=1&amp;fs=1&amp;autohide=2&amp;showsearch=0&amp;showinfo=1&amp;iv_load_policy=1&amp;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\">[embedded content]<\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/music\/music-news\/mary-j-blige-medley-lifetime-achievement-award-bet-awards-851599\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mary J. Blige delivered a 20-minute medley packed with hits and guests Method Man and Lil Kim during the 2019 BET Awards, where the singer received the ceremony\u2019s Lifetime Achievement Award. Blige\u2019s medley spanned hits like \u201cReal Love,\u201d \u201cYou Remind Me,\u201d My Life\u201d and more, while Lil Kim and Method Man dropped in for their [&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":[50],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-2445664","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-music-news"},"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-21 11:06:15","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":"KSPN The Valley&#039;s Quality Rock","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445664","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2445664"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2445664\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2445664"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2445664"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kspn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2445664"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}