Mary J. Blige is delivering London to us stuck in the states. The R&B Queen is slated to drop The London Sessions LP this November featuring familiar UK collaborators Disclosure and Sam Smith.

“Working with these guys, it’s like they’re my family. We all seem to have a good chemistry together. And when I sign on, I sign on – I can’t go hang out,” she said in an interview with The Guardian. “Because I have to make sure that my music is right. And I love to work. I love creating, and once I’m in it, I’m just in it. I just love being all in the midst of the creativity.”

Set to include 10 tracks, Mary J. had help crafting the album with her London family penning some of the records. “Our idea was to become part of London, to really embrace the culture – to really live in it. Not that I haven’t been here before, but I’ve never had the chance to really soak in it the way I have this time. The music is free over here the way it used to be in the States. Artists are just free to do what they love. Listening to the radio you can hear the freedom. The music is living and breathing – you can hear that from Adele’s last album. It was massive – a big deal. But she did what she loved.”

Stay tuned for a brand new Mary album coming soon.