![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() “Suddenly, all of these women felt seen and heard.”īlige told Variety that “My Life” began it all. “But people listened to Mary,” Roth told Variety. If the essence of hip-hop, as Sister Souljah once wrote, is to express through rhyme and music the realities of youth in America - about transfiguring hardship into a litmus test for legitimacy - in the early ’90s, those realities were about men, driven by ultra-masculine MCs of the Public Enemy era. We’re constantly rooting for her, because she’s constantly rooting for us.” “Mary reps for us, and she still reps for us,” Latasha Gillespie, head of global diversity, equity and inclusion for Amazon Studios, told Variety at the premiere. Listeners heard, as the documentary argues, the real thing: Poverty, frustration, loneliness and self-destruction, and they saw in an ascendant Hip-Hop Soul something they knew existed: A young woman, sensitive and soulful, concerned with life, loss and love. That pain was immortalized in tracks like “Be Happy” and “My Life,” layering a sincere R&B sound over unrepentant, heavy hip-hop tracks. ‘My Life’ let me know that I could set all my pain in wax.” And I had people around me who were letting me know that I could do this. I was writing because it just felt good to me. I was singing for my life,’” Blige told Variety at the premiere, held at Jazz at Lincoln Center. ![]()
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