In September 1999, Rolling Stone bestowed her first album, What's the 411? (1992), as "genre-creating". Blige's genre-changing sound, in many ways, changed and shaped the sound for modern day R&B and blue-eyed soul artists. The "Queen of Hip-Hop Soul" and "Queen of R&B" (publications often refer to her as both honorific titles), Blige is uniquely credited as the first singer to release an album singing over hip-hop beats, which created the subgenre " hip hop soul" which fuses elements of soul, R&B and gospel style vocals over hip hop beats. ![]() She has released 15 studio albums, eight of which have achieved worldwide multi-million album sales. Blige began her career as a backing vocalist for Uptown Records in the early 1990s. Blige performing live at the Neighborhood Ball in Washington, D.C.
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