New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Mary J. Blige, "The Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" is back and isn't sugar coating anything in her golden visuals for her lead single, "Thick Of It"! The soul soldier of love shared the emotional purge "Thick Of It," which she co-wrote with Jazmine Sullivan, last month, and today she gives it a lush video treatment to match the '60s soul vibes she mixes with trap and R&B on the song.
Blige is decked out in fly fit after fly fit, mixing fur coats with leather snapbacks and gold galore as she sings her pain palpably like she's done for decades.
The video and song come in the wake of the singers divorce from her longtime husband Martin "Kendu" Isaacs, who is reportedly seeking six figures in spousal support.
"'Thick of It' is the divorce and all this stuff that's going on right now," Mary recently said. "It's the heaviness of it and the whole thing... That's where I am. I'm in the middle of a divorce and it doesn't feel good. It feels terrible, but I have strength to get through and I get through by any means necessary."
Strength of a Woman, the follow-up to 2014's The London Sessions, is set to feature contributions from Hit-Boy, Jazmine Sullivan, and Kanye West, who guests on "Love Yourself." Check it out below.