Who could you see playing the Mary J. Blige story?
It’s gonna come! Yeah, it’s gonna come… I don’t know! [Laughs] I don’t know yet. It might not be anyone from our time. It might be someone two generations from now or a generation from now. Do you care about reviews? I mean, it matters when it’s positive. When it’s not positive sometimes you got to pay attention to what they are saying, if it’s something that’s sticking. If it’s just a bunch of negativity, it means nothing. If it’s something that bothers you about you then you might have to go check it out. Back in the day, they said I didn’t sing on-key. I wasn’t, I purposely didn’t sing on-key. It was something Puffy and I were doing to create the movement that we were creating. You were singing to beats. Exactly! But, when I almost lost my voice and it began to be like chatter – it was like, “It’s either my voice or all this foolishness.” What has BET meant for your career? Wow, without BET, I, Mary J. Blige probably wouldn’t be this far. It was the only outlet for our videos at one
