The Truth Behind ‘You Got Me’

Celine Wong of Philadelphia Citypaper.net blew the lid off a story that had MCA exec’s threatening to pull every add off not only XXL if they published it, but every magazine that Harris Publications owned. The story? That MCA had forced The Roots to replace the then little known Jill Scott with Erykah Badu in the Grammy winning ‘You Got Me’, which has torn the band with their label despite the song’s success, and left not only Scott, but an uncredited Eve pissed at MCA. Read more.