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The Roots

You Got Me

1999 · via Drake

The Roots’ earliest release of “You Got Me” on file came out in 1999. Black Thought, ?uestlove, Jill Scott and Scott Storch are credited as its writers. The earliest release on file is Jill Scott’s, from 1999. Also recorded by Frostie vs The Roots (released 2015) and The Lullabeats (released 2022), among 41 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz. Drake’s “6 Man” (2015) carries this song’s writers on its credit. It is on the album Things Fall Apart (1999).

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Read the credits on "6 Man" and you'll find Black Thought, ?uestlove and Jill Scott listed right alongside Drake. Start with the band that put "You Got Me" out first, then go find the Erykah Badu recording from that same year.

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Liner notes

Credited writers: Black Thought, ?uestlove, Jill Scott and Scott Storch.

Earliest release on file: Jill Scott, 1999, the same year as Erykah Badu.

On the album Things Fall Apart (1999).

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Drake’s “6 Man” (2015) carries this song’s writers on its credit, the mark of a cleared sample or an interpolation.

Other recordings on file · first release year

41 recordings of this work on MusicBrainz.

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