I Don't Know How It Feels To Be U by Robin Thicke

Album: Love after War (2011)

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Robin Thicke and his wife, actress Paula Patton, were in the middle of an argument when she snapped at him, "Robin, no matter how hard you try, or how compassionate you are, you'll never know what it's like to be a black woman." Thicke told Essence that he went away and wrote this song in five minutes.

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