Mary J. Blige
Be Happy (Commentary)
[Interlude]
"Be Happy." The sample alone, the Curtis Mayfield sample alone is just what blew my head back when I heard it. And, just like a rapper, like, I immediately — when I hear something that makes me feel crazy or crazy good, immediately, I have to — I'm running in the booth, I'm running in the booth, I'm writing on the spot. You know, it's just happy and that's what I wanted to be. I wanted to be happy and that's what I said. All I really want is to be happy and to find a love that's mine, not a man I gotta share with everybody. Yeah, ha. And of course, it's produced by Chucky Thompson again, giving mе the blues, but I love thе blues, I love the way it makes me feel. So yeah, that's what "Happy" is about