Mary J. Blige gets Bested, tours with Jay-Z

Mary J. Blige gets <em>Best</em>ed, tours with Jay-Z

Recently, producer and DJ J. Period announced his plans to honor the Queen of Hip-Hop by releasing a multi volume Best of Mary J. Blige mixtape. What started as a promo for her 2005 Grammy winning album The Breakthrough gathered enough hype to warrant a full release. The record will feature a career spanning retrospective as well as unreleased songs, remixes, interviews and a few all-new songs.

And if that wasn’t good enough news for the songstress, Mary J.’s “Heart of the City” tour with the newly ‘un-retired’ Jay-Z has sold out in several cities. Live Nation has reported that tickets for Baltimore, M.D., Uniondale N.Y., East Rutherford, N.J. Washington, D.C. and Boston, Mass. have all been swept up by eager fans. The tour, which begins in late March, spans 25 dates, though the full itinerary has yet to be announced.

Heart of the City Tour so far:

March
22 – Miami, Fla. @ American Airlines Arena
26 – Baltimore M.D. @ 1st Mariner Arena
27 – Uniondale, N.Y. @ Nassau Veterans Memorial Coliseum
28 – East Rutherford, N.J. @ Izod Center
30 – Philadelphia, Penn. @ Wachovia Center

April
2 – Toronto, Ontario @ Air Canada Center
3 – Boston, Mass. @ TD Banknorth Garden
5 – Greensboro, N.C. @ Greensboro Coliseum
6 – Washington, D.C. @ Verizon Center
9 – New Orleans, La. @ New Orleans Arena
10 - Houston, Tex. @ Toyota Center
12 – Dallas, Tex. @ Supergates.com Center
15 – Anaheim, Calif. @ Honda Center
17 – Los Angeles, Calif. @ Hollywood Bowl
19 – Las Vegas, Nev. @ MGM Grand Garden Arena
20 – Oakland, Calif. @ Oracle Arena
26 – Chicago, Ill. @ United Center