You Got Me (The Roots song)

"You Got Me"
Single by the Roots featuring Erykah Badu and Eve
from the album Things Fall Apart
ReleasedJanuary 25, 1999 (1999-01-25)
GenreNeo soul[1]
Length4:19
LabelMCA
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)
The Roots singles chronology
"Adrenaline!"
(1998) 		"You Got Me"
(1999) 		"The Next Movement"
(1999)
Erykah Badu singles chronology
"One"
(1998) 		"You Got Me"
(1999) 		"Southern Gul"
(1999)
Eve singles chronology
"You Got Me"
(1999) 		"What Y'all Want"
(1999)

"You Got Me" is a song by American hip hop band The Roots, featuring vocals from Erykah Badu (who sings the chorus) and Eve, then known as Eve of Destruction, who raps the second verse but does not appear in the music video. The track was released as a single from the band's fourth studio album, Things Fall Apart (1999), in January 1999.

  1. ^ Pitchfork Staff (September 28, 2022). "The 150 Best Albums of the 1990s". Pitchfork. Retrieved April 26, 2023. The Philadelphia hip-hop group's fourth album boasts one of the most breathtaking ballads of the neo-soul era they helped guide, "You Got Me"...