The Queen of Hip Hop Soul is BACK with another banger! And this time she has Fabolous along for the ride on, ‘Breathing’!

Eight years since she filed for divorce, the R&B icon, 53, is reflecting on how far she’s come with her liberating new single “Breathing,” which saw her reunite with Fabolous.

Blige’s latest single is a taste of her forthcoming album, which is due later this year. “It’s going to be out soon, probably the end of September, early October,” she says of the record. “But there’ll be two singles out before then.”

Blige maintains that the album will reflect her singular approach to R&B. “Everybody that’s out there, I don’t look at what they’re doing and do what they’re doing,” she says. “I do what Mary J. Blige does, and that’s it.”