>I mean sure maybe that song is that good on its own and it
>doesn't matter who singing the hook it would have blown up.
>Maybe the song would have done just as well if Jill was left
>in it. But done better? How Sway?

I said "just as huge"


>Its a heck of coincidence that the biggest song they ever
>released happened to feature one of the biggest charting
>artists they ever worked with. Hard to think that a no name
>artist would have achieved the same result no matter how well
>they sang the song.
>
>Then they also have a song with Jill Scott that has very
>similar vibes that comes out a few years later that doesn't
>have nearly the impact.
>
>I get that we don't know how much resources the label put into
>each record and maybe Easy Convesations would have performed
>better if it got the same push as You Got Me. Who knows.

Right. Who knows. Point is you can't definitively say "the label got it right."


>What we do know is how well the song did with Badu which makes
>it hard to see the POV that they made the wrong choice.

Fair. They obviously didn't get it "wrong," but the question was whether they got it "right" which, my point was, you can't definitively say.