In addition to producing the aforementioned “Love is All We Need,” Jam & Lewis also produced the third single “Everything,” which cleverly recreates the Stylistics’ 1971 hit record “You Are Everything. In her first major reach beyond a hip-hop audience, Share My World also enlists several R&B heavyweights, including the duo behind much of Janet Jackson’s success, Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. (Oh, oh, oh, oh) Oooo (oh, oh, oh, oh) oooo. It was written by Johnta Austin, Bryan Michael Cox, Jason Perry and Blige for her seventh studio album, The Breakthrough (2005). (Oh, oh, oh, oh) I wanna be with you, gotta be with you, need to be with you. Be Without You is a song by American recording artist Mary J. An early platform for the label’s up-and-coming trio and Mary’s Yonkers neighbors The Lox, “Can’t Get You Off my Mind” is a jiggy tune that stood as a light-hearted moment long before the group would escape the shiny-suit sub-genre. I wanna be with you, gotta be with you, need to be with you.

The album’s second single “I Can Love You” not only features Lil’ Kim, but samples and interpolates the song “Queen Bitch,” which reminds any male love interest why he may want that ole thing back, with all of the attitude of Kim’s debut album Hardcore, released less than a year earlier.Įven with the absence of Diddy, Mary appeared to maintain her privileges as a member of Bad Boy’s extended family.

The celebrated Queensbridge-bred emcee’s smooth lyrics helped celebrate not only the professional and personal breakthrough of the song’s leading lady, but also helped plant the flag in the smog of hip-hop uncertainty that New York swag was here for the duration.Īs much as the hardcore hip-hop backpacker may have tried to deny the satisfaction of hearing Mary J.’s vocals over the same track that Gang Starr’s DJ Premier laid for Jay Z’s “D’Evils” less than a year earlier, Mary’s return to her comfort zone of narrating the particulars of a rocky relationship felt at home over the gritty sound that became the signature of underground East Coast street-hop. Seeming to embrace more of an upbeat sound and overarching tone of confidence, Share My World returned Mary to her 1992 roots of What’s the 411? and its remixes of 1993, starting with the album’s lead single “Love is all We Need,” a boss-meets-boss love saga that features the one-and-only Nas Escobar. In her first full effort without any oversight or contribution from Sean “P Diddy” Combs, the sonic recipe for Mary’s distinct brand of soul passed to Rodney “Darkchild” Jerkins and Tone & Poke of the production duo The Trackmasters, among others.

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