I cry every time I hear this. There are so many outside influences that will make you question the beauty of who you are but you can only be YOU & YOU are good enough!!! Thank you MaryJ for making this song !!! It resonates so deeply with my soul .
my mom picked this song for her memorial dvd in her last days as she battled ovarian cancer...she couldn't of picked anything BETTER!!! this song is her all day. i Love n Miss u soo much mommy💜💜
You know this song is IT when you work in a level 2 hospital and your patient has suffered a traumatic brain injury and cant even hold a conversation with you but when he heard this song he was able to actually speak a few words to this song and sway his body to the rhythm of the beat. Mary is a deep sister and her music is truly therapeutic on so many levels!
May God bless you with His Strength & peace as you care for you & your patients, I feel you...💗🕊 This IS an amazing song. Such amazing ladies y'all are.
People that actually Lose themselves trying to be/do what other people want them to be/do and end up being Totally miserable trying to please everyone else, except oneself. Just be yourself, whoever doesn't like it, Doesnt Need to be in your life.
Fantastic point, so true, it would be great to know more of your wise thinking but this is your only online comment, please post more such insightful comments.
A little known fact .... that’s a live band playing, y’all. I watched the making of the video. Mary wanted the live feel of the song instead of the studio/radio version for this video.. Huge Mary fan over here lol 12/13/19)
Wow Really I Would Love To Have A Sit Down With Her And Find Out Why She Wanted A "LIVE BAND ON THIS SONG" Making This Video??? She Do Everything For A Specific Reason😉😉😉
Also a HUGE Mary fan. Watching and listening to this song is extremely difficult and very emotional for me. Mary music helps to get I through the tougher times.
You guys do not understand the power behind this song... from the initial piano keys... to the very end. Man, oh man... just the piano brings me to tears... but the message? and the power that Ms Blige delivered? .... man.
When that woman, from her very gut, and with everything in her sang, “You can’t take that from me” , know that this meant no one on this very earth! Respect to Mary! Beautiful Warrior Woman and Alchemist!
*God 11 years later and beautiful masterpiece still makes me cry, this was pure beauty and emotion into this song.* So heartfelt gosh. This is one of my most inspirational songs I ever heard in my life that it stuck with me. I'm glad her and mariah Carey are friends because I found Mary through Mariah with We Belong Together. #TimelessMusic #Classic
Ur so right abt this statement bc I could just cry now, the song brought bk so many memories and moments in my life. Love mjb!! She's the queen of R&B, music is very real and honest!!!!!!!! Wish she would come back n never leave again.
& to this day, I here this song, relate, 😢,& wonder what is it that makes people dislike me? My conclusion, because I am me,& if that is the problem, Sorry, but not sorry.
No one never truly takes us for who we are and what our self-worth is put God first and sugar you never last amen yes cuz he's going to put you where you need to be God bless you all my sisters
She's been down and out She's been wrote about She's been talked about constantly She's been up and down She's been pushed around But they held her down, NYC She has no regrets She accepts the past All these things they Helped make to make she She's been lost and found And she's still around There's a reason for everything You know I've been holdin' on Try to make me weak But I still stay strong Put my life all up in these songs Just so you can feel me So you can get the real me So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) Now she's older now Yes, she's wiser now Can't disguise her now She don't need No one tellin' her What to do and say No one tellin' her Who to be She's on solid ground She's been lost and found Now she answers to G-O-D And she's confident This is not the end Ask me how I know 'Cause she is me You know I've been holdin' on Try to make me weak But I still stay strong Put my life all up in these songs Just so you can feel me So you can get the real me So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) So it's all or nothing at all All or nothing at all Don't you know I can only be me (I can only be me, yeah) So it's all or nothing at all All or nothing at all Don't you know I can only be me (I can only be me, yeah) So take me as I am Or have nothing at all (nothing at all) Just take me as I am Or have nothing at all (at all) This is me!
That's a lie thanks to independent media there is lots of good music on the internet. Just because you don't hear it on the radio doesn't men it doesn't exist or people aren't hearing it. A lot of these internet artists have significant fan bases. How old are you 40?
I can vision myself to the pain and strength each and every bit of this amazing song I feel so deeply and emotional every time I listen is like the first and is so true for many of us real , life .
I feel the same I hope yous all find the person I have given up on love I just meet men that use you and tell you lies I pray to God that I can find a soulmate good luck 🙏 god bless 🍀
This is a very touching song, it hits a women at all angles, no one is perfect on this earth and never will be, we all have flaws visible and invisible.
This single helped me to remain true to who I am, through dark nights of the soul, her voice and these lyrics connected me back to highest self. God Bless this Deva.
Even if my momma is jealous of me envious of me, even hates me...I still will love her from a distance. I AM WORTHY OF EVERYTHING. IM BECOMING MY PEACE. I no longer need for you to accept me, you have your own journey. I'm no longer accepting inheritance wounds I'm moving them out of my way. One love.
Aretha Franklin was my favorite female singer until Mary j Blige came out maybe because I was in high school grew up on her music never heard a song from her that I didn't love 💕😘
I love Mary J blige, she has nothing but hits...her music speaks about truth, struggles and hard times. I know she's a strong woman, I could see it. This song fits the occasion and I feel like it's speaking about me. I love this song. Take me as I am or nothing at all.
Honestly when I hear this song I cry every time just hard when you feel like you're constantly being attacked for just being yourself and you just want to be loved😪
16 years back, I was 12 years, singing this song without knowing what the message behind it. But now as I weathered my teenage and early adulthood days, I finally got what it meant: take me as I am or just erase yourself off my life. All my life, I've been dealing with rejection, denial of my sexuality from my close friends and family, dealing with repressed and unadressed trauma while going through with life. Now I'm 27 going 28, this song is now my life, shit this is the reason why I love Mary more.
Been search for this song for a years.. i heard this song when i was kid about 10 years old in 8tv nite live. Finally, here i am. From malaysia.. love mary j blige.
The pressure of being a woman is strong. Having to stay on top of appearance before another woman steals the spot light. It's hard... Especially if your man doesn't make you feel good enough. But at the end of it all, as woman we must except our individual greatness. We have the gift to bare children. The gift to make a place into a home. Ingredients into food. Money into greater things. Remember men.... Just as you see there's better looking woman then the one you have at home... There are better looking men out there waiting to treat your woman right!
I love this song a true LEGEND. A CAPRICORN WHO HAS ALWAYS KEPT IT REAL THRU ALL HER UPS AND DOWNS. CONGRATULATIONS MARY ON ALL UR SUCCESS. IM SO HAPPY GOD HAS REMOVED THAT DEVIL OUT UR LIFE MAY NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS AND BLESSING COME TO U AS U CONTINUE ON UR JOURNEY. KEEP THIS GOOD REAL MUSIC COMING.
This song and Ain't Really Love from the same album got me through a rough time in my 20s. Ladies, there's a secret. Our minds have been played with all our lives, a man can never be enough, they are as flawed as we are. Only our Creator can fill that emptiness inside of us.
You ladies must thank God doesn't have standards!! You must think God doesn't have rules and requirements. You want him to be your healer and you're a deliverer but you don't want him to be your Lord. God is love, but God is also holy. Jesus said if you love me, keep my commandments. He's not the author of confusion but of peace. So if your life is chaotic, if you're out of order, then God is not in that.
Im a man and this song is me on so many levels. I never been so emtoionally overwhelmed listening to a song ever. This is a first. Thank you Mary J Blige!
Hey…don’t be like that. Everyone has their struggles, and not 100% of hurt comes from experience. 15 years is plenty of time to have suffered, and even if not, some brains are just wired to be depressed. Its real. Its not a race or a comparison, thats what Mary illustrates here. ALL women, of all ages, races, creeds, backgrounds, economies, have these same struggles, and more often than not our stories interweave. NEVER lessen or compare your strains in life, your job is only to recognize, repair, and repossess your OWN LIFE and the rest will come. Take YOURSELF as you are. Wishing you the best! Love Syracuse NY. NYStrong.
@@blc28x Thank you for your powerful comment. It's so true when you said that you shouldn't lessen or compare your strains in life. This is especially true when you feel like you shouldn't talk about your problems because everyone faces there struggles and some even worse than yours. So people expect you to suck it up and move on.
My little sister picked no more drama 🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️ for me here and now actually when it first hit the air waves and I still play and and remember her saying ,sister this song is you when I talk to her it makes me smile 😁 she has always treated me like I'm her little sister and she still dose wow ,, thank you Mary you have managed to make every song for every situation A woman has been going through or going through I want to thank you Ms Blige you truly deserves your name that they have given you in the industry 🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
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I cry every time I hear this. There are so many outside influences that will make you question the beauty of who you are but you can only be YOU & YOU are good enough!!! Thank you MaryJ for making this song !!! It resonates so deeply with my soul .
Have you heard 'Good Morning Gorgeous'
@Kylelashay Draper-Your comment is beautifully said. Thank you so much for it. 💜
@@dreameryoung38 Love it much
I like your comment. That was me at one time.
You are 100 on this statement you made
my mom picked this song for her memorial dvd in her last days as she battled ovarian cancer...she couldn't of picked anything BETTER!!! this song is her all day. i Love n Miss u soo much mommy💜💜
Omg Idk if I could hear this song after that without bawling my eyes out 😳
Sorry for your loss. Your mother had great taste in music. ❤️
So sorry for your loss🙏
Sorry about your loss. She will always be with you. Rest in power. Mary j . Always speak the truth
My mom too passed of ovarian cancer when I was 11, I remember she used to play this album nonstop so I feel you ❤️❤️
You know this song is IT when you work in a level 2 hospital and your patient has suffered a traumatic brain injury and cant even hold a conversation with you but when he heard this song he was able to actually speak a few words to this song and sway his body to the rhythm of the beat.
Mary is a deep sister and her music is truly therapeutic on so many levels!
May God bless you with His Strength & peace as you care for you & your patients, I feel you...💗🕊 This IS an amazing song. Such amazing ladies y'all are.
Thanks to all the helpful health heroes.
Thank you for sharing, it really is so powerful ❤
Oh wow
I felt that
On a mental lvl too❤❤❤😢
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One thing about auntie Mary , she has a song for everything you’re going thru‼️
Yes she does !!! Luv me some Mary!!
People that actually Lose themselves trying to be/do what other people want them to be/do and end up being Totally miserable trying to please everyone else, except oneself.
Just be yourself, whoever doesn't like it,
Doesnt Need to be in your life.
Fantastic point, so true, it would be great to know more of your wise thinking but this is your only online comment, please post more such insightful comments.
Amen to that.
I agree!
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FB Bro.Mike A Shares Long Time Sister Beautiful Mary J. Deep Wise LADY.Amen
God Is Love Ky U.S.A International Too.Amen
A little known fact .... that’s a live band playing, y’all. I watched the making of the video. Mary wanted the live feel of the song instead of the studio/radio version for this video.. Huge Mary fan over here lol 12/13/19)
Huge Mary fan over here and there's nothing lol about it,... Mary J Blige is my favorite artist of all time
Wow Really I Would Love To Have A Sit Down With Her And Find Out Why She Wanted A "LIVE BAND ON THIS SONG" Making This Video??? She Do Everything For A Specific Reason😉😉😉
I'm also a Mary fan and was wandering why it sounded differently from the radio version
Also a HUGE Mary fan.
Watching and listening to this song is extremely difficult and very emotional for me.
Mary music helps to get I through the tougher times.
That is THE best Mary J. Blige song I’ve ever heard her sing. SHE REALLY SANG that from her soul!
Exactly what I said.. it's beautiful
This song is ahead of its time and STILL relevant in 2022. #TakeMeAsIam
#Agreed ...
Carla Linton. I agree with you 100%. John Hendrickson
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Definitely true💋and I’m still listening 👂
When she starts singing “This is meee” at 2:51😭😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
The best part of the song
that shi used to make me cry
Yesssss gives me chills as women we go through so much so you feel it
yes my favorite part
Ffourty-eight still makes me cry🥺
You guys do not understand the power behind this song... from the initial piano keys... to the very end. Man, oh man... just the piano brings me to tears... but the message? and the power that Ms Blige delivered? .... man.
She did the dang thang on this track...I t was deeply heartfelt💜💜
- BenIsTooGreat peace brother I'm an diverse songwriter I would like to collaborate with you
- BenIsTooGreat does the same for me
Thank Lonnie Linston Smith for the sample
Even as a man this song has such power and relevance. Thank you Mary for this blessing
FACTS 💯
FACTSSSS
🤚🏾
Facts
Facts!!
When that woman, from her very gut, and with everything in her sang, “You can’t take that from me” , know that this meant no one on this very earth! Respect to Mary! Beautiful Warrior Woman and Alchemist!
_amen!_
My goodness tell that truth 💥💙
Eacjjjh tear
Yes indeed!
*God 11 years later and beautiful masterpiece still makes me cry, this was pure beauty and emotion into this song.* So heartfelt gosh. This is one of my most inspirational songs I ever heard in my life that it stuck with me. I'm glad her and mariah Carey are friends because I found Mary through Mariah with We Belong Together. #TimelessMusic #Classic
Ur so right abt this statement bc I could just cry now, the song brought bk so many memories and moments in my life. Love mjb!! She's the queen of R&B, music is very real and honest!!!!!!!! Wish she would come back n never leave again.
fr i cry everytime on highnotes
I'm going through the same
same here her music is eternal :)
& to this day, I here this song, relate, 😢,& wonder what is it that makes people dislike me? My conclusion, because I am me,& if that is the problem, Sorry, but not sorry.
I love how she plays every character in the video while she sings the song herself
Me too☝🏾 #payattention
I love how you explain the obvious
THIS HITS DIFFERENTLY WHEN YOUR GOING THROUGH ALL THAT'S SHE'S SINGING 😭
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GOD IS ALWAYS GOOD. SHE IS A BETTER PLACE. STAY STRONG 4 YOUR FAMILY 👪 💪 💙 ❤️ 🙏 💓 👪 💪 💙 ❤️ 🙏 💓 👪 💪 💙 ❤️
Absolutely true this is such a relatable song!
Amen
Yessssssss
Make sure yall give Keri Hilson her props for writing this song 🎵 👏🏼
Whaaaaaat I had no idea she wrote this😮😮😮 but Keri Hilson a beast with the pen❤❤
@@kembaI.right!
this song is very inspiring. be yourself! 😊
Conceal Don't Feel YES!
Conceal Don't Feel
Conceal Don't Feel people now adays hate that
Conceal Don't Feel
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she has had such a hard life I pray one day she finds love ....we love you Mary God bless you
Oldlovewoume8108588758
Amen ❤️
Tru dat Tiff that was a nice thing to say..i hope..no i pray someone finally takes care of her heart.
Had no idea that Keri wrote this. Amazing talent from both
Her voice is so amazing I am getting goosebumps! 😍
I remember when this song helped me get through so much..it reminded of who I am and how I am perfect the way God made me :)
Amen"
that's right sista gurl I'm witcha
Ok
Great
Man!! This song make's me cry especially the end.
Btw fun fact: kery hilson wrote this song.
She co-wrote this song.
Cabbage patch kidz joined and connected at the head since they well connected?
Give me a break now but........ what does Btw mean I'm a 60's baby
@@withoutatrace2208 it means "by the way" lol
Huh???
Msry didn't write this song?
“I can only be me!” She was sangin’ sangin’.
this GEM deserves so much more play. Mary always delivers emotions raw but it's something about this one!
This one and No More Drama are the most realest songs ive heard by her. She blows it out the water💜 I miss her music
FACTS
Try to listen the living proof and each tear
mary is crying out for love - you need us all, you got such emotion and power in your voice. you are fabulus mary.
I'm in
She sings these songs because shes lived it all. Thats why I love her so much. Shes real and she doesnt hide anything !
Realest song ever Mary tore this song up 2019 and ima rock til the end🤪
No one never truly takes us for who we are and what our self-worth is put God first and sugar you never last amen yes cuz he's going to put you where you need to be God bless you all my sisters
Real Talk
All these years later I still tear up every time I hear this track.
I Feel You. This A Deep Song With The Right Music.
Mary sang the hell out this one but Keri Hilson song writing is next level she wrote another masterpiece!!
Listening to this in 2020 ❤️
ME also..2020 music
listening right now
we just gonna take it as it is...
Pamela Jade same 😍
Same here
She's been down and out
She's been wrote about
She's been talked about constantly
She's been up and down
She's been pushed around
But they held her down, NYC
She has no regrets
She accepts the past
All these things they
Helped make to make she
She's been lost and found
And she's still around
There's a reason for everything
You know I've been holdin' on
Try to make me weak
But I still stay strong
Put my life all up in these songs
Just so you can feel me
So you can get the real me
So take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (nothing at all)
Just take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (at all)
Now she's older now
Yes, she's wiser now
Can't disguise her now
She don't need
No one tellin' her
What to do and say
No one tellin' her
Who to be
She's on solid ground
She's been lost and found
Now she answers to G-O-D
And she's confident
This is not the end
Ask me how I know
'Cause she is me
You know I've been holdin' on
Try to make me weak
But I still stay strong
Put my life all up in these songs
Just so you can feel me
So you can get the real me
So take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (nothing at all)
Just take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (at all)
So it's all or nothing at all
All or nothing at all
Don't you know I can only be me
(I can only be me, yeah)
So it's all or nothing at all
All or nothing at all
Don't you know I can only be me
(I can only be me, yeah)
So take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (nothing at all)
Just take me as I am
Or have nothing at all (at all)
This is me!
...... JUST LOVE ME some MJB !
Love this song ❤️
This is meeeeeeeee yes in 2020
Thanks for putting the lyrics down, I was really wondering and you saved me some time! Thanks.
Pou
Seen her in concert dozens of times. Love her realness and style.
Still Powerful .... Classic
So sad that lots of people won't hear beautiful music like this anymore😩😩
ItsSimplySe I like them those music like this from early 2000s and 1990s
That's a lie thanks to independent media there is lots of good music on the internet. Just because you don't hear it on the radio doesn't men it doesn't exist or people aren't hearing it. A lot of these internet artists have significant fan bases. How old are you 40?
That’s true
Righttt! I will always know real music when I hear It.
Hurt people Hurt people. They not loving themselves and they just don't care.
Listening and understanding this song makes me embrace and appreciate women more
real talk, MEN stand up
The track is amazing, along with her vocals equals a masterpiece... Period 🌹
This is MUSIC
This gave me strength like a gospel song, I’m so emotional going thru a lot now, thank you for making this music
hope everything works out good for you
i can relate to this song on so many levels .....i can't wait for the day when someone would take me as I am and love me endlessly
I feel the same way!
I can vision myself to the pain and strength each and every bit of this amazing song I feel so deeply and emotional every time I listen is like the first and is so true for many of us real , life .
@@lakeisharobinson2132 here am I. ..the answer to Your prayer..
Exactly
I feel the same I hope yous all find the person I have given up on love I just meet men that use you and tell you lies I pray to God that I can find a soulmate good luck 🙏 god bless 🍀
This song still gets me in my feelings. 😩
I scream this song word for word from the bottom of my soul
When you have gone through everything that she says ..you identify you become she
Whoa, Mary actually gave me chills with this one!
This is a very touching song, it hits a women at all angles, no one is perfect on this earth and never will be, we all have flaws visible and invisible.
Mary J - Queen of R&B
Lauryn Hill - Queen of Hip Hop
Aretha Franklin - Queen of Soul
Mariah queen of R'n'B and pop
The Dreamer Kid....i 100 percent agree
Michel’le is the original queen of hip hop soul before mary j blige, mary j blige is the empress of hip hop soul.
The Dreamer Kid i agree
YASSS and in THAT ORDER 😊😊
This helped me realize I'm worth something when I was cheated on and left pregnant alone in a state bu myself. Thank you Mary real life
Praying for you and your situation,As a single dad of a daughter for a few years until i met my wife trust and believe it will get better
I’m so sorry this happened to you😢. I pray you seek healing from that unfortunate trauma.
😢
I just love her ballads! The pain is so raw!
Mary really a whole legend out hea🔥🔥🙏🏾
mary sung the mess out of this song
Facts
Ms Hill yes she did
This single helped me to remain true to who I am, through dark nights of the soul, her voice and these lyrics connected me back to highest self. God Bless this Deva.
Even if my momma is jealous of me envious of me, even hates me...I still will love her from a distance. I AM WORTHY OF EVERYTHING. IM BECOMING MY PEACE. I no longer need for you to accept me, you have your own journey. I'm no longer accepting inheritance wounds I'm moving them out of my way. One love.
I'm going through the same thing love ❤️
GOD FIRST, mary j blige I love all your music especially this one take me as I'm
Keri Hilson wrote this
My husband has took me for who I am and I am blessed for that .
Awh.....That's What's Up! May God Bless Y'all !
Lucky you. Maybe you is the reason.
ojays
Same here, I could not imagine my life without him now, especially during this virus. Hold your honey and let them know how much you appreciate them.
I love aunty Mary she has been a blessing to so many people through her voice and music 🙏🏽🙏🏽
As a young woman growing up being a teenager . I have to say this song plays a part in who I am today .
This is meeeeeeeeeeeeeee! This is meeeeeeeeee. This is meeeeeeee!!!
Black Reign mkxoxo i🙈vz👨👩👧be the
That's my part 😭😭😭😭😭😭
I Can ONLY be me 😢❤!!!!!
I'm a man and relate to this song as much as any female here. This is the kind of music that elevates anybody who hears it. Talk about therapy...
yessir preach brother!
one of my favourites!
Casey Puriefoy definitely brother
I can agree
Arvin Sanders
My mom use to play this song all day ! Damn it hits different when your grown !
Thank U Keri Hilson 4 writing this beautiful song
Mary J is still the realest!!!!! Period.
Period...she is so dope.
this lady is my strong role model I enjoy MARY J.B .
“Putting my life up in these songs” always reminds us that Mary knows how we struggle and she genuinely shares herself. Just love you
💯 So true. Her and Keyshia Cole.
@@kembaI. michelle K too! A real lady with some shattering talent
ALL UP....in these songs😊
Mary is a g.o.a.t when it comes to being real in her music
Her Breakthrough album is the most beautiful realistic album ever I live for MJB
The athem of my life!!!!👌 Still standing strong✌️ She on solid ground,, she's been lost & found!!🙏🙏🎼🎶🎶💯💯💯!!! THIS IS ME!!
The last minute and a half of this song is everything! #chillbumps
the Last minute give me goosebumps each time İ listen to that shit
no j
I only watch the video for that last minute and a half.
I see what y'all mean now. I've never seen nor heard this version
Lovely Lasean stg realist song ever
I still cry on the last part🤧 it’s like I can relate, and she’s pleading out “take me as I am” so deep❤️🔥
The undisputed Queen of R&B.
Undisputed point blank
Aretha Franklin was my favorite female singer until Mary j Blige came out maybe because I was in high school grew up on her music never heard a song from her that I didn't love 💕😘
I ALWAYS GET CHILLS! SO MUCH EMOTION MY GOSH!
Don't you! I have them now 😨
Mee too! I get chills🔥🔥
Mary always get u through the worst times. She will always be the queen of R&B
Mariah is the Queen of R’n’B but she’s good
Yes, she does. Blessings
Beyonce the queen of pop
That is why she is the QUEEN
THE QUEEN 💯
"This is me" literally❤️My emotions overtake me when I hear this song.
This song just gives you self-confidence and inspiration. Can't control my emotions what I listen to this.
This song🔥🔥🔥 we love Mary forever she always spoke truth
She's been lost and found ... amen mary j blige
Jennifer Valentine fuck you
+Lavern Smith wtf?
+Jennifer Valentine fvbf
???k
she truly was her life was full of ups down sorrows and she sings it out with so much soul
Whenever a person gets to this point, especially a woman, I think it's a beautiful thing.
could not forget my girl's birthday today, happy birthday Mary, 1-11-2021, happy 50th...., Mary, you are my favorite singer of all time
Still my song in 2021 🤞🏼💞 Love you Mary 💖
I love Mary J blige, she has nothing but hits...her music speaks about truth, struggles and hard times. I know she's a strong woman, I could see it. This song fits the occasion and I feel like it's speaking about me. I love this song.
Take me as I am or nothing at all.
2:50-3:38 gives me chills every time
made me cry lmao
EVERY. SINGLE. TIME.
‼️‼️
Fr 🥹
Yesss me tooo it takes my soul❤❤
This song is so beautiful! We don't call you Queen for nothing! ❤👌🏽👸🏿
There’s so much joy in my heart listening to this song❤️
mjb is like a mother to us all
jonathan cromartie true
Yes!!
jonathan cromartie yesssss
jonathan cromartie this song was my anger release when I was young
jonathan cromartie Which is the reason why I am still in love with this song.
Honestly when I hear this song I cry every time just hard when you feel like you're constantly being attacked for just being yourself and you just want to be loved😪
This song taught me so Much SELF Love
16 years back, I was 12 years, singing this song without knowing what the message behind it. But now as I weathered my teenage and early adulthood days, I finally got what it meant: take me as I am or just erase yourself off my life.
All my life, I've been dealing with rejection, denial of my sexuality from my close friends and family, dealing with repressed and unadressed trauma while going through with life.
Now I'm 27 going 28, this song is now my life, shit this is the reason why I love Mary more.
I remember my mom listening to this when I was little. Starting to see why she liked it, and what she was probably feeling at the time.
this is dedicated to all the people who cant accept me for who iam
BRILLIANTLY SAID
YES, THIS IS ME ALWAYS 😌🙋🏽❤❤
The queen of hip hop soul
I just have to say one thing…I LOVE THIS SONG!!!!!
This song is so deep. Gets me every time I hear it.
I don't think most people understand the depth of this brilliant song, this gets me every time as well.......
2020!!!💓
I totally agree!!!!
Every time..
Been search for this song for a years.. i heard this song when i was kid about 10 years old in 8tv nite live. Finally, here i am. From malaysia.. love mary j blige.
The pressure of being a woman is strong.
Having to stay on top of appearance before another woman steals the spot light. It's hard... Especially if your man doesn't make you feel good enough. But at the end of it all, as woman we must except our individual greatness. We have the gift to bare children. The gift to make a place into a home. Ingredients into food. Money into greater things. Remember men.... Just as you see there's better looking woman then the one you have at home... There are better looking men out there waiting to treat your woman right!
I feel u *****
Kindall Alvarez wow! you spoke right to my heart😌
REAL.TALK☝
Yes
Amen
I swear I can’t listen to this song without tearing up each time💜💜 Mary is such a wonderful songwriter 😭💜
Keri Hilson wrote it...
I love this song a true LEGEND. A CAPRICORN WHO HAS ALWAYS KEPT IT REAL THRU ALL HER UPS AND DOWNS. CONGRATULATIONS MARY ON ALL UR SUCCESS. IM SO HAPPY GOD HAS REMOVED THAT DEVIL OUT UR LIFE MAY NOTHING BUT GOOD THINGS AND BLESSING COME TO U AS U CONTINUE ON UR JOURNEY. KEEP THIS GOOD REAL MUSIC COMING.
This song and Ain't Really Love from the same album got me through a rough time in my 20s. Ladies, there's a secret. Our minds have been played with all our lives, a man can never be enough, they are as flawed as we are. Only our Creator can fill that emptiness inside of us.
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You ladies must thank God doesn't have standards!! You must think God doesn't have rules and requirements. You want him to be your healer and you're a deliverer but you don't want him to be your Lord. God is love, but God is also holy. Jesus said if you love me, keep my commandments. He's not the author of confusion but of peace. So if your life is chaotic, if you're out of order, then God is not in that.
this song speaks to my soul tears rolling down my face love her
yes yes YES..........
Venus Lovechild
Im a man and this song is me on so many levels. I never been so emtoionally overwhelmed listening to a song ever. This is a first. Thank you Mary J Blige!
And she STILL looks good !!!
I was 15 singing this like I been through something 💀
Hey…don’t be like that. Everyone has their struggles, and not 100% of hurt comes from experience. 15 years is plenty of time to have suffered, and even if not, some brains are just wired to be depressed. Its real. Its not a race or a comparison, thats what Mary illustrates here. ALL women, of all ages, races, creeds, backgrounds, economies, have these same struggles, and more often than not our stories interweave. NEVER lessen or compare your strains in life, your job is only to recognize, repair, and repossess your OWN LIFE and the rest will come. Take YOURSELF as you are. Wishing you the best! Love Syracuse NY. NYStrong.
@@blc28x Thank you for your powerful comment. It's so true when you said that you shouldn't lessen or compare your strains in life. This is especially true when you feel like you shouldn't talk about your problems because everyone faces there struggles and some even worse than yours. So people expect you to suck it up and move on.
Me to girl, and now im 31 looping back ive lived it all ❤️ still need mj Blige in my life 💪
I was 10 singing MJB Not gonna cry. Her music is just so relatable
She speaks the truth with her music.
Her songs signified my young adulthood! I grew up with mary!
I can't ever get tier of listen to Mary
Mary killed this song💥💥
In 2020 this song still gets me through ❤️
2022👌😍
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My little sister picked no more drama 🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️ for me here and now actually when it first hit the air waves and I still play and and remember her saying ,sister this song is you when I talk to her it makes me smile 😁 she has always treated me like I'm her little sister and she still dose wow ,, thank you Mary you have managed to make every song for every situation A woman has been going through or going through I want to thank you Ms Blige you truly deserves your name that they have given you in the industry 🔥🔥🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥