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Buddy_Gilapagos
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"Poll question: Were the Roots Label Right About "You Got Me"?"


  

          

The Jaguar Wright thread reminded me of the whole replacing Jill Scott with Erykah Badu on the You Got Me track. A reminder for those who want it:

https://www.okayplayer.com/music/jill-scott-erykah-badu-verzuz-you-got-me.html

Folks were saying they did Jill and even Eve dirty by that song (and leaving Eve out the video),but the thing looking back in retrospect is that, the way the label delivered it to the world ended up being the biggest songs in Roots history and winning a Grammy.

Doesn't that vindicate the label's approach?

Poll result (19 votes)
Ultimately they made the right call. (14 votes)Vote
No, they should have stuck with J Scott (5 votes)Vote

  

  
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Were the Roots Label Right About "You Got Me"? [View all] , Buddy_Gilapagos, Thu Jan-19-23 10:01 AM
 
Subject Author Message Date ID
they made the right call with Erykah, but fucked up not
Jan 19th 2023
1
Eve is credited in the liner notes as 'Eve of Destruction.'
Jan 19th 2023
9
thanks for clearing that up.
Jan 19th 2023
17
Yeah that was NOT cool.
Jan 20th 2023
35
i never knew that was Eve from RR....
Jan 19th 2023
2
has anyone involved said it was the wrong decision?
Jan 19th 2023
3
Maybe its a rumor but the story was Eve waited for a limo
Jan 19th 2023
4
I wonder how much I would have gotten into The Roots without Badu
Jan 19th 2023
5
i hope Eve was able to sue and/or somehow get her fuckin money
Jan 19th 2023
6
      Did she not get paid?
Jan 19th 2023
7
           i figr if she did maybe it was a one time thing...
Jan 19th 2023
8
As someone who loves the Live version with Jill Scott and
Jan 19th 2023
10
Wasn't the Jill version on Homegrown?
Jan 19th 2023
14
      It is
Jan 19th 2023
15
      also didn't Thought write Eve's raps?
Jan 19th 2023
30
      You’re right, I don’t know how I forgot this
Jan 19th 2023
32
No
Jan 19th 2023
11
^ yea this is where I'm at.
Jan 19th 2023
12
      Exactly
Jan 19th 2023
13
      That's just wishful thinking though.
Jan 19th 2023
19
           Who said "better" ?
Jan 19th 2023
21
Tangent, how do yall feel about "Lost Me"?
Jan 19th 2023
16
That's a flip that work. I dig it.
Jan 19th 2023
23
This really happened
Jan 19th 2023
18
Lmao wait, how are you going to just slide in with a flex like this
Jan 19th 2023
20
nah.. we used to throw shows in college
Jan 20th 2023
38
      LOL !!
Jan 20th 2023
41
      I know I've seen the Dan story before
Jan 20th 2023
44
           broke college kids.. lol
Jan 20th 2023
46
Damnn
Jan 19th 2023
22
breh.. I aint fuck with him from that moment on
Jan 20th 2023
39
      That's wild
Jan 20th 2023
60
Funny how life turns out
Jan 19th 2023
24
In terms of peaks, she had the biggest career too
Jan 19th 2023
25
      didn’t Kelis also marry a Billionaire?
Jan 20th 2023
54
           I don't think he was a billionaire or even rich.
Jan 24th 2023
64
How did you take that?
Jan 19th 2023
26
What ?
Jan 19th 2023
27
Compared to now?
Jan 19th 2023
28
      What again ?
Jan 19th 2023
29
      Man I've been meaning to do a female MC post from some time now.
Jan 19th 2023
33
           That's a good idea
Jan 20th 2023
59
           please do!
Jan 25th 2023
67
      It wasn't the roots that fronted.
Jan 19th 2023
34
I took it personally.. lol
Jan 20th 2023
42
Women weren’t foreign in the hip hop game. They were actually
Jan 20th 2023
58
lmfao
Jan 19th 2023
31
I wonder if it was he was salty about Double Trouble
Jan 25th 2023
68
if i remember correctly, quest offered his broken grammy to eve on fallo...
Jan 20th 2023
36
WTF ? I'm hoping/assuming this was a "ha ha" moment and not ?uest being ...
Jan 20th 2023
37
What was her response?
Jan 20th 2023
40
      Philly dudes different
Jan 20th 2023
43
We all know why they went with Badu over
Jan 20th 2023
45
No.. Jill blew up long before me too
Jan 20th 2023
47
Yes…Jill blew after her album dropped.
Jan 20th 2023
49
      aint no way a label is picking a hot unknown singer over Badu
Jan 23rd 2023
62
Nah this a unfounded messy take.
Jan 20th 2023
52
      Eve was a MC though. She wasn’t a singer. That’s
Jan 20th 2023
53
           you are correct on appeal
Jan 24th 2023
65
That was/is their most well known song
Jan 20th 2023
48
article on okayplayer from 3 years ago
Jan 20th 2023
50
That article is literally in the OP lol
Jan 20th 2023
51
      But did you see this message thread on it?
Jan 20th 2023
55
           lol
Jan 20th 2023
56
           ok that was funny.... i'll take my L
Jan 20th 2023
57
           LOL
Jan 23rd 2023
61
           lol
Jan 25th 2023
69
I don't know about "right". But it worked.
Jan 23rd 2023
63
What if??? What if Jill was in the video and didn’t go on tour with Th...
Jan 24th 2023
66
I wish the song had blown up with Jill and Eve
Jan 28th 2023
70
we here aren't we?
Jan 28th 2023
71

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