Remy Ma and her daughter have shown love to Mary J. Blige’s by surprising her during a recent interview on The Drew Barrymore Show.
The Grammy-nominated rapper stopped by the show with her four-year-old daughter Reminisce Mackenzie, who nervously sucked on her thumb during the entire interview. Remy spoke about what it’s like to have Mary as a “best friend” while praising the R&B star’s new children’s book Mary Can!
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“You know how you meet somebody or aspire to meet somebody, you look up to somebody and then you meet them and it’s just — sometimes, in this industry you meet them and they’re not really what you envisioned them to be?” Remy began. “Not only is she everything that I thought she would be, but she’s like past that.”
Remy continued to give Mary her flowers after hugging the Queen of Hip Hop Soul.
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“Probably eight out of 10 times we see each other we end up crying,” she said. “But she has that because it’s so real, it’s so authentic, and it’s genuine, you feel it, you feel her. You don’t just see her; you feel her.
“And I think what she’s doing in her legacy is — I don’t even know she’s aware of how many people that she touched. My daughter is four-years-old…and [Mary J. Blige] has this song called ‘Amazing’ and she keeps playing this song.
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“First, she thought it was me, I’m not gonna lie. I let the lie go on for about two months…then she realized that’s Mary J. Blige’s. When she first met her she goes, ‘Can we call Mary J. Blige today?’
“Just to show the generational impact that she’s had, I think sometimes we need to hear that. As human beings, we start to feel, ‘Alright, I made my mark, I did it.’ And she just keeps going.”
Remy Ma is far from the only rap star to give Mary J. Blige her flowers in recent months. Diddyrecently celebrated the Queen of Hip Hop Soul for changing music forever.
“Mary J. Blige is one of the greatest storytellers in R&B history,” the Bad Boy boss told PEOPLE in January. “She created a lane for women around the world to speak their truth to power, so nobody deserves this success more than her.”
He added: “More than being my sister and my best friend, she will forever be a pioneer and the Queen of Hip-Hop Soul, who remains an unstoppable force that can accomplish anything she sets her mind to.”
As for storytelling, Mary J. Blige’s children’s book Mary Can! hit shelves on March 28. Blige announced the book last November and said on Instagram that the book was meant to inspire young girls to follow their dreams just like she did.
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“Mary Can! is an inspirational and motivating story about a young girl who proves that anyone can make their dreams come true if they just believe in themselves,” she said. “It’s such a personal story for me, based off my own experiences as a child and even as an adult.”
She continued: “I was so used to people telling me ‘no’ and that I ‘couldn’t’ which only motivated me more. My hope with this book is that it instills in kids from an early age that they can do anything they aspire to do. There are no limits to what they can accomplish!”
