Remy Ma recently appeared on the Drew show and brought along her adorable four-year-old daughter, Reminisce Mackenzie. During the interview, Remy spoke about her best friend, the iconic R&B singer Mary J. Blige, and praised her new children’s book, Mary Can!
Remy couldn’t stop gushing about Mary, saying, “Mary, she’s, you know how you meet somebody, you aspire to meet somebody and you look up to somebody and then you meet them and sometimes in this industry you meet them and they’re not really what you envisioned them to be.”
She continued, “Not only is she everything that I thought she would be, she’s like past that. Super real, down to earth I would say probably eight out of ten times we see each other we end up crying. But she has that because it’s so real, so authentic and you feel it, you feel her. And I think what she’s doing in her legacy, and I don’t even know if she’s aware how many people that she touched. My daughter…I don’t even know how she latched onto Mary like that.”
Remy also praised Mary’s impact on multiple generations, noting that her four-year-old daughter loves Mary’s song “Amazing.”
“One day she has this song called ‘Amazing’ and she keeps playing the song over and over and I’m like, ‘How do you know that song?’ and she’s like, ‘Yeah that’s Mary’…but just to show the generational impact that she‘s had, and I think sometimes we need to hear that as human beings you start to feel like I made my mark I did whatever, and she just keeps going.”
Adding, “Literally I’m reading her the book backstage and there’s a part in the book that says, ‘Mary was being told no,’ because a lot of times when people tell you you can’t or no it’s because they have small dreams and she goes, ‘Not me I have big dreams.’”
Samantha Gaudio
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