Someone to Love Me (Naked)

Album: My Life II, The Journey Continues (2011)
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Songfacts®:

  • On January 4, 2011, Angie Martinez premiered a new version of Diddy-Dirty Money's "Someone To Love Me" during her Hot 97 show. This remix featuring newly added vocals from Blige and Lil Wayne was released as an iTunes digital download single on March 29, 2011 under Mary J's name. The song served as a teaser for Blige's tenth studio album, My Life II, The Journey Continues, a sequel to her 1994 breakthrough disc My Life.
  • This peaked at #28 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart.
  • Blige and Lil' Wayne performed this live for the first time at the Billboard Music Awards in 2011.
  • The album debuted at #5 in the US, her lowest entry since My Life hit #7 in 1994. It also peaked at #2 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart, making it her first album to fail to reach #1 on the tally.
  • In the music video, Blige, Diddy, and Wayne make their way their way down separate hallways before meeting at the edge of a broken bridge as lightning ominously flickers in the sky. The clip was directed by Colin Tilley who also did the video for the album's third single, "Why."

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