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* * * Mary J. Blige, “What’s the 411?,” Uptown. Blige’s performance here on “You Remind Me” is one of those perfect singer-to-song matches. Terrific singer, terrific song, case closed. Elsewhere, Blige deftly jumps between vintage-sounding soul and hip-hop, turning in her best work on a pretty faithful “I-wannabe-Chaka-Khan” rendition of Rufus’ 1976 “Sweet Thing.”

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