![]() ![]() ![]() “Why are Black women being treated like this? This is not right.” Rather, it was Blige’s blunt reaction immediately after seeing the film. Her incredulous anthem begins with the words “What’s going on?” The nine-time Grammy winner said she wasn’t thinking of Marvin Gaye’s classic song when she wrote that line - “It wasn’t intentional it was probably subconscious” - although it certainly rhymes with the injustice against Black bodies Gaye was decrying in 1971. ![]() “I was livid at the beginning when I saw this stuff, and then when I saw her fighting, it was so hopeful.” “No matter what they did to her, they couldn’t take away what was hers, which is her life,” Blige added.
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