Lyrics Be With You - Commentary - Mary J. Blige

This song is the song that started the whole My Life album writing process for me
Puff brought this to my house, he brought the, he brought the track with nothing on it
And he was like "I got a surprise for you, you gotta come out to the car, I gotta play this for you"
And from the beginning keys of-of this song
I just, I started cryin'
And I knew what I had to do
I knew this was gonna be some kind of, um, therapy for me
'Cause Chucky's music, something about Chucky's music
Like I said, that just makes me expose myself completely
And I remember this being a freestyle
I just walked in the booth and said "I can't deal with the fact that you don't want me around"
And 'cause that's how I was feelin'
Like it was a conversation that I was havin' with this person and he wasn't around
But I was feelin' like I was losin' him and he, he didn't want me around
And he was tired of me and so everything just, just vomited out of me
And, um, of course, it's Chucky Thompson again and that's what this song is ab—