BLIGE, MARY J.

Mary J Blige heeft voor het album tracks opgenomen met onder andere DJ Khaled, Anderson .Paak en Usher. De inspiratie voor het album komt uit de journey naar selflove en het worden van je eigen beste vriend. Een reis die de Amerikaanse artiest ook persoonlijk heeft afgelegd.

“I finally said ‘I’m amazing’. Because God said I’m amazing. When I was going through bad shit in my life, I started waking up and saying ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’. No matter what I was going through I would look in the mirror and say ‘Good Morning Gorgeous’. This person would chip me down, tear me down and made me look at myself like I was nothing. I would look at myself and say ‘I Love You, I Got You’. I never in my life was able to love myself so hard the way I love myself right now. I’m able to see beauty past hair color, fingernails and that shit. I wake up in the morning and I see myself for real. I’m not deceiving myself. I try hard to be my own best friend. No matter how many mistakes I made , I love the good, the bad, the ugly, all that Mary because I beat her up so bad because of what people said and thought about me.” - Mary J Blige