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Album: The London Sessions (2014)
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  • This club-ready track finds Blige warning a love interest, "Don't waste your time, play with my mind or you'll regret it," lest they end up "sad and all alone." The song is one of two collaborations on The London Sessions between Mary J. Blige and the English electronic duo Disclosure. (They also worked together on the second single "Right Now.") Disclosure first collaborated with Blige earlier in 2014 on a remix of their "F For You."
  • Blige had a lot in common musically with the Disclosure duo. "My whole reason for gravitating towards them was the fact that they had so much knowledge of the music that my generation grew up on," she told Radio.com. "The deep house - I was too young to go clubbing, but I used to hear it on the radio, and they captured it 100%."

    "Their hip-hop history and their musical history is just like [shakes her head], 'You guys are too young. What are you, like aliens or something?,'" Blige added laughing. "It's just amazing."
  • The London Sessions is Blige's 12th studio album. It went to #9 in the US, where it also debuted at #1 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. In the UK, it peaked at #40 on the albums chart and #4 on the R&B Albums tally.

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