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Mary J. Blige was honored with a BET Award for Lifetime Achievement. While on the blue carpet, Danielle Young asked your faves to do their best Mary J. Blige bop.
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00:00Mary J. Blige is receiving the Lifetime Achievement Award, and of course, she has a lifetime of achievement.
00:11One of her biggest achievements, the Mary dance. So we having everybody show us their best Mary moves.
00:17I actually beatbox better than him now.
00:32Mary J. Blige, all her songs are the soundtrack to my life, so I'm so excited to see her.
00:45She's a beautiful person inside and out. No one's more deserving.
00:48She's just that woman, okay? Mary's been holding it down since. Holding it down, been holding it down.
00:53My mama put me on Mary, okay? Listen, I was a toddler, okay? And I'm a dream. You know what I'm saying?
00:59Like, that's my girl, okay? She deserves it.
01:02We can't do the same thing. It's crazy. Nah, I love her so much, man.
01:06Her happiness, her pain, her love, her hurt, everything about what she has shared in her music has touched us all at one point or another in our lives.
01:14Mary is still here, and Mary done been through some things. Mary had on a scarf with black lipstick and shades, okay?
01:20She sang through it. She sang through it. And then she came with us, and people tried to tell her, you can't do music when you're happy.
01:27And she was like, no, no, no. I'm going to continue to give you all the hits.
01:30When you talk about the soul of a woman, she's absolutely the epitome of one.
01:34And so it's awesome to see, just when you think she's undone at all, and it's like, boom, here comes something else. But she is so well-deserved.
01:41She can sing her ass off. She look like she can smack the shit out of somebody. And also smart. And also have, like, the, like, sophistication, but also, like, remind you of that auntie. You know what I'm saying? From the hood. And just been in the game. Just an absolute legend. And yeah, I love how she dances.
01:59I got the best Mary, but my dress not going to really allow it right now, but ask my friends.
02:03You know, she be, ha, ha. No more pain. No drama.
02:10It's always good to give your heroes their roses while they can still smell them.
02:14How can I love somebody else?
02:18Hey, I love Mary. And she looks amazing. Like, she's aging backwards.
02:24We grew up on her music and her realness, rawness, her soul. And she's just continued to evolve as an artist. She's, she's everything and more.
02:36She's been the soundtrack to our lives, to our, our, our loves, our breakups, our happy times, our no more dramas, you know.
02:45Um, we have, Mary's helped us all evolve. We've evolved with Mary. Um, she's just amazing, talented. She's a legend. She's a trendsetter.
02:53So for all those reasons, like, and she's a beautiful, strong, intelligent black woman.
02:59She's held down her square so strong in such a powerful way. I think this is long overdue. So shout out to Mary. We know we love you, girl.
03:05How long?
03:08How long?
03:17How long?
03:19Who's falando?
03:21How long?
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