Mary J. Blige has long been renowned for keeping it candid – both in her music and when articulating her views.
As such, it was of little surprise that the R&B royal didn’t hold back when quizzed about the modern state of the genre many hail her the Queen of.
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Chopping it up with her longtime friend and collaborator Diddy on Instagram Live, Blige began by saying:
“You can’t kill something that’s in our DNA. It’s going to keep transitioning from generation to generation to generation to generation. They were trying to kill it.”
Stressing that music like hers, Chaka Khan’s and Marvin Gaye’s is “healing,” Blige added:
“They wanna call it ‘popular music’ with Adele and Justin Timberlake get ahold of it, so now it’s ‘popular music’… but it’s been popular music! We’ve been had it!”
Peep clips from her appearance:
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