You Got Me

...by Amir "QuestLove" Thompson of The Roots. QuestLove invited her to join the band in the studio, and the collaboration resulted in a co-writing credit for Scott for the song, "You Got Me." In 2000, Erykah Badu and The Roots won the...

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...would even attempt to play them all. Within the course of a nearly 20-minute version of their 1999 breakout hit You Got Me," guitarist Captain Kirk Douglas led The Roots through a scorching mash-up medley. The sequence included Guns N' Roses'...

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...back rappers with a live band. Their one major hit, 1999's collaboration with Erykah Badu, "You Got Me," put them on the map, but isn't at all indicative of the group's sound, or responsible for their fanbase. The Roots have toured and worked...

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...Ahmir "?uestlove" Thompson's kit to make some cosmic cacophony, they launched into the set's centerpiece, a massive, half-hour long "You Got Me," with extensive noodly guitar and bass solos, and interpolated covers of Gn'R's "Sweet...

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...and critics, while becoming the group's first record to sell over 500,000 copies. It includes the song "You Got Me", which won the 2000 Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, while Things Fall Apart was also nominated...

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...and intellectual weight to sex that Janet's music has been missing since before Scott and Storch made their mark co-penning The Roots' "You Got Me." That weight is felt only fleetingly throughout the album; "Celibacy Blues" has to be the...

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...the band played at the Woodstock 99 concert. In 2000, the Roots won the Grammy Award for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group for "You Got Me", with guest performances by Jill Scott and Eve . The Roots' album Things Fall Apart was...

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...all leading to this last set. The Roots did not disappoint and their jam-filled closing set seemed to contain only a few Roots tunes, with the highlight being a 20-plus minute version of You Got Me." I doubt one song was ever able to...

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...into monster party jams - "Long Time" was fast and loose, "Criminal" was a funk beast. Catering to the jam-friendly audience, their "You Got Me" was a sprawling epic, complete with a Rogers and Hammerstein interpolation, a one-handed Eddie...

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