I Need a Dollar

"I Need a Dollar"
Single by Aloe Blacc
from the album Good Things
Released16 March 2010[1]
Recorded2010
GenreSoul
Length4:04[1]
LabelStones Throw Records, Sony Music Entertainment UK
Songwriter(s)Leon Michels, E. Nathaniel Dawkins, Nick Movshon, Jeff Dynamite
Producer(s)Leon Michels, Jeff Dynamite
Aloe Blacc singles chronology
"Get Down"
(2006)
"I Need a Dollar"
(2010)
"Loving You Is Killing Me"
(2011)
Music video
"I Need A Dollar" on YouTube
"I Need A Dollar" Alternative version on YouTube

"I Need a Dollar" is a song performed by American singer Aloe Blacc, written by Blacc, Leon Michels, Nick Movshon and Jeff Dynamite.[2]

It is the intro song for the HBO show How to Make It in America, and was featured as the iTunes Single of the Week.[3] It also featured in the game Fight Night Champion. Blacc has performed the song live on Later... with Jools Holland, The Graham Norton Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Conan. In April 2011, it was featured in a commercial for Boost Mobile wireless services.

  1. ^ a b "I Need a Dollar". Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  2. ^ "I Need a Dollar" (in Dutch). Dutch Charts. Retrieved 27 January 2011.
  3. ^ Stanley, Alessandra. TELEVISION REVIEW | 'HOW TO MAKE IT IN AMERICA'; The Dream, Without The Drive. The New York Times. February 12, 2010.