“You Got Me” by The Roots featuring Erykah Badu

"You Got Me" went out in January 1999 as the lead single from Things Fall Apart, the Roots' fourth studio album, and it's the band at their silkiest: Black Thought leading the rhymes, Eve, still going by Eve of Destruction, taking the second verse, and Erykah Badu singing the hook. Black Thought, ?uestlove, Scott Storch and Jill Scott wrote it, the Grand Wizzards produced with Storch co-producing and adding keyboards, strings came from Larry Gold, Davis Garnet, Emma Kumrow and Igor Szwec, and Bob Power mixed.

That chorus was Scott's first, but MCA wanted a bigger name on the lead single and had Badu sing it instead. Scott still joined the band for the song on tour, and her version finally surfaced on a 2005 compilation. The Roots and Badu took home the Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group in 2000.

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