Released in a live-streamed press conference alongside "Where Is Our Love Song", this is Stevie Wonder's first single since "Faith" in 2016, and since he announced a temporary hiatus from performing in 2019 in order to undergo akidney transplant.[2] In addition, this is the first music he has not released throughMotown, marking the end to his career-long association with the record label in favour of his new label, So What the Fuss Music, distributed throughRepublic Records.[3] Both labels are currently part of theUniversal Music Group.
Calling it "a response tosystemic racism", Wonder said the song speaks in a time when "Not just Black people or people of colour but young people everywhere are going, 'This is not acceptable.' Change is right now".[1] Busta Rhymes rap references the aftermath of themurder of George Floyd and thekilling of Breonna Taylor.
