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Music Class: The Roots - You Got Me ft. Erykah Badu

playahaitian

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* PHILLY!!! :cool:honestly the roots are the REASON I started these threads...i could just do their music and enjoy, analyze and discuss their brilliance. I must reiterate Black Thoughts is one of the greatest MCs EVER...pointblank period. Questlove's musical genius is unparalleled and The Roots crew is unrivaled. SHOUT OUT to EVE!!!

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[Hook x2: Erykah Badu]
If you were worried bout where
I been or who I saw or
What club I went to with my homies
Baby don't worry you know that you got me

[Verse 1: Black Thought]
Somebody told me that this planet was small
We used to live in the same building on the same floor
And never met before
Until I'm overseas on tour
And peeped this Ethiopian queen from Philly
Taking classes abroad
She studying film and photo, flash, focus, record
Said she working on a flick and
Could my clique do the score
She said she loved my show in Paris
At Elysee Montmartre
And that I stepped off the stage and took a piece of her heart
We knew from the start that
Things fall apart, intentions shatter
She like that shit don't matter
When I get home get at her
Through letter, phone whatever
Let's link, let's get together
Shit you think not
Think the Thought went home and forgot
Time passed, we back in Philly now she up in my spot
Telling me the things I'm telling her is making her hot
Starting building with her constantly round the clock
Now she in my world like hip-hop
And keep telling me

[Hook]

[Verse 2: Black Thought]
I'm the type that's always catching a flight
And sometimes I gotta be out at the height of the night
And that's when she flip and get on some 'ol

[Eve]
Another lonely night
Seem like I'm on the side you only loving your mic
I know you gotta get that paper Daddy keep that shit tight
But yo I need some sort of love in my life, you dig me
While politicking with my sister from New York City
She said she know this ball player and he think I'm pretty
Psych, I'm playing boo
You know it's just wit you I'm staying boo
And when cats be popping game
I don't hear what they sayin boo
When you out there in the world
I'm still your girl
With all my classes I don't have the time for life's thrills
So when you sweating on stage think of me when you rhyme
And don't be listening to your homies, they be leaving you blind

[Black]
Yeah, so what you sayin I can trust you?

[Eve]
Is you crazy, you my king for real

[Both]
But sometimes relationships get ill

[Eve]
No doubt

[Hook]

[Verse 3: Black Thought]
That snake could be that chick and that rat could be that cool cat
That's whispering she trying to play you for the fool Black
If something's on your chest then let it be known
See I'm not at you every five minutes all on the phone
And on the topic of trust, it's just a matter of fact
That people bite back and fracture what's intact
And they'll forever be, I ain't on some oh I'm a celebrity
I deal with the real, so if it's artificial let it be
I've seen people caught in love like whirlwinds
Listening to they squads and listening to girlfriends
That's exactly the point where their whole world ends
Lies come in, that's where that drama begins
And she like

[Hook]
 
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playahaitian said:
Love the Jill Scott version too...:cool:

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Didn't Jill Scott write the song?...or originally record the hook
the Badu did it for the video?


Just seems I remember reading or hearing that somewhere.:dunno:
 
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dasmybikepunk said:

Didn't Jill Scott write the song?...or originally record the hook
the Badu did it for the video?


Just seems I remember reading or hearing that somewhere.:dunno:
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she wrote it, sang the hook/bridge but she was an UNKNOWN and the label refused to release it as the lead single so the put on Badu and WON a GRAMMY...

But on tour Jill sang it and then they got on stage together to show there was no beef just politics of the day and that Philly connection is crazy strong.
 
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dasmybikepunk said:

Didn't Jill Scott write the song?...or originally record the hook
the Badu did it for the video?


Just seems I remember reading or hearing that somewhere.:dunno:
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"Scott kept writing and began to make friends in Philadelphia's music scene. Together with a Jewish Philadelphia rapper named Scott Starch she wrote a song for the Roots, a local hip-hop act that had gained a national reputation for its sophisticated lyrics that addressed a wide variety of topics. That song, "You Got Me," ended up on one of the Roots' albums with the part Scott had created sung by Erykah Badu, an artist to whom Scott has often been compared; the group's label, MCA, felt that the presence of a better-known name would increase the album's drawing power.

The song went on to win a Grammy award for Best Rap Performance in 1999, and Scott, who had hoped to record it herself, felt a tinge of regret. "I was upset at first," she told Newsweek, "but then I was like, 'Sister girl, wait a minute. The first song you write wins a Grammy and has a Grammy-winning singer. Stop tripping.'" Besides, by that time Scott had other irons in the fire. She had joined the Canadian cast of the hit musical Rent and was at work on an album of her own, having joined forces with producer Jeff Townes, otherwise known as DJ Jazzy Jeff. It was Jazzy Jeff, more than anyone else, who set Scott on the path to a musical breakthrough."
 
dasmybikepunk

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she wrote it, sang the hook/bridge but she was an UNKNOWN and the label refused to release it as the lead single so the put on Badu and WON a GRAMMY...

But on tour Jill sang it and then they got on stage together to show there was no beef just politics of the day and that Philly connection is crazy strong.
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BKF said:

"Scott kept writing and began to make friends in Philadelphia's music scene. Together with a Jewish Philadelphia rapper named Scott Starch she wrote a song for the Roots, a local hip-hop act that had gained a national reputation for its sophisticated lyrics that addressed a wide variety of topics. That song, "You Got Me," ended up on one of the Roots' albums with the part Scott had created sung by Erykah Badu, an artist to whom Scott has often been compared; the group's label, MCA, felt that the presence of a better-known name would increase the album's drawing power.

The song went on to win a Grammy award for Best Rap Performance in 1999, and Scott, who had hoped to record it herself, felt a tinge of regret. "I was upset at first," she told Newsweek, "but then I was like, 'Sister girl, wait a minute. The first song you write wins a Grammy and has a Grammy-winning singer. Stop tripping.'" Besides, by that time Scott had other irons in the fire. She had joined the Canadian cast of the hit musical Rent and was at work on an album of her own, having joined forces with producer Jeff Townes, otherwise known as DJ Jazzy Jeff. It was Jazzy Jeff, more than anyone else, who set Scott on the path to a musical breakthrough."
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Propz to you both for the replies... I kinda knew this but it's
been a while and I kinda lost touch with it's authenticity.

I would literally fuck my holiday budget up to see all of them live.
 
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i remember when the video 1st came out thinking that was the dopest video concept ever but damn I didn't realize that track was 15 years old. That song will never get old.
 
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Since everybody mention Jill and Eryka, how about both of them performing it together? I get hyped everytime I hear the Dave Chappelle Block Party joint...

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playahaitian said:
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Co-written with Jill Scott, who was set to feature in it but the part went to a better known Erykah Badu​
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hook and female rhymes written by Jill
recorded by Erykah & Eve




I would die a very happy man if I was able to get Jill and Eve in a 3 some and dropped dead the next morning
 
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