50+ Music<p>"What's Going On" is a song by the American singer-songwriter <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MarvinGaye" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MarvinGaye</span></a>, released on January 21, 1971, on the <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/MotownSubsidiary" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>MotownSubsidiary</span></a> Tamla. It is the opening track of Gaye's studio album of the same name. Originally inspired by a <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/policeBrutality" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>policeBrutality</span></a> incident witnessed by <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/RenaldoObieBenson" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>RenaldoObieBenson</span></a>, the song was composed by Benson, <a href="https://mastodon.online/tags/AlCleveland" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#<span>AlCleveland</span></a>, and Gaye and produced by Gaye himself. The song marked Gaye's departure from the Motown Sound towards more personal material. <br><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">youtube.com/watch?v=H-kA3UtBj4M</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p>