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Mary J. Blige Honored With Billboard's Women In Music Icon Award

When you've pretty much slayed the game for more than 25 years, you deserve to get your props. Mary J. Blige is doing just that, and her award tour recently touched down at the Billboard Women In Music Awards to receive the Icon Award. "Thank you to Billboard for this honor tonight. I'm so grateful, I'm so humbled, I'm so thankful," she said at the beginning of her speech. Later, she relayed what the "huge responsibility" of being an icon meant to her, saying, "When people look up to me, I want them to see my life and have it reflect theirs and understand that if I can make it through everything that I've made it through and still making it through, you can do it as well." Congrats, Mary! It's well deserved. #StrengthOfAWoman