Interviewer: If someone came up to you and offered to pay for the whole thing, whatever budget you want, what kind of album would you make?

MJ: I have no idea. Because…I’m not doing another one. Music now – I heard that the Grammys removed some R&B awards? I mean come on! Robin Thicke, the king of R&B? Give me a break. And you’ve got all of these singers that are supposed to be R&B/Soul, they all sound the same, can’t tell one from the other one, because the producer went in his basement and made this nice record, and hyped it up and put them in “tune”, and said “now you have a hit record, and you need to go out and sing it.” Now they gotta learn it. Plus you gotta learn how to sing out of both sides of your mouth at the same time.

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Interviewer: What is the state of R&B music? Where do you think it is going?

MJ: R&B really doesn’t exist anymore. It’s not going, it’s gone. I spoke to someone about wanting to bring me to the Apollo. Couldn’t find anybody to go with me. Because everybody that I used to play with, they’re dead. And if they’re not dead, they’re old and ill. So it makes things complicated, because even though I’m known as the “mother of hip hop”, and had the first female hip hop record (1980′s I Had to Say It), they’re not going to put me on the show with another hip hop artist, because my fans are not gonna come and see me, and have to hang out with their children. They don’t mix!

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Interviewer: How do you feel about a lot of artists today that might have a Millie Jackson influence? Is there anyone you like?

MJ: Yeah, Rihanna has a distinguished voice, but everybody else wants to sound like Beyonce.

Interviewer: Do you like Beyonce?

MJ: I…

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