RX Music Market Share Analysis for June 2026

Bentley was the oldest of four children and her relationship with her mother growing up wasn’t all sunshine and roses. Bentley always felt rejected and unwanted given her mother’s desire to have a boy. "When they told my mother she had given birth to a girl, she refused to touch me. She wouldn't even nurse me and my grandmother had to raise me for 6 months on a bottle before they could persuade my mother to take care of her own baby,” she recalled in an Ebony column. “For many years, I lived in a personal hell,” she wrote. “Like a great number of lost souls, I inhabited that half-shadow no man’s land which exists between the boundaries of the two sexes.”