Released: April 10, 2000
Featuring: Kobe Bryant
Songwriter: Destiny’s Child Kobe Bryant Fred Jerkins III Rodney Jerkins LaShawn Daniels
Producer: Rodney Jerkins
[Chorus}
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
[Verse 1]
Any other day, I would call, you would say
"Baby, how's your day?"
But today, it ain't the same
Every other word is "uh-huh" "yeah" "ok"
Could it be that you are at the crib with another lady?
If you took it there, first of all, let me say
I am not the one to sit around, and be played
So prove yourself to me, if I'm the girl that you claim
Why don't you say the things that you said to me yesterday?
[Pre-Chorus]
(I know you say that I am assuming things)
Something's going down that's the way it seems
(Shouldn't be the reason why you're acting strange)
If nobody's holding you back from me
(Cause I know how you usually do)
When you say everything to me times two
(Why can't you just tell the truth?)
If somebody's there then tell me who
[Chorus}
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
[Verse 2]
What is up with this?
Tell the truth, who you with?
How would you like it if I came over with my clique?
Don't try to change it now, saying you gotta bounce
When two seconds ago you said you just got in the house
It's hard to believe that you are at home by yourself
When I just heard the voice, heard the voice of someone else
Just this question, why do you feel you gotta lie?
Gettin' caught up in your game, when you cannot say my name
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus}
[Verse 3 - Kobe Bryant]
Uh, hear me out a little bit
I got something to say about that, huh
Hold up, sweetie, slow your roll
What are you out of your mind, out of control?
Questioning me like I'm a criminal or something
Stole your heart or something
Like I'm up to something
You must be with girlfriends, gossipin'
And chicks hate on Kobe cause he ain't with them
Feel me now, listen how silly you sound
Suspecting a voice in the background
Come on now your trust is foul
Checking messages now
How old are we now?
Probably hate me now like Nastradamus
Cause I'm just keeping it real wit you honest
My silence forgive I was stressing then
I was shopping with my ex for lingerie
For my newfound love, that would be you
No shame in your name, I'll say what I want to
[Pre-Chorus]
(I know you say that I am assuming things)
Something's going down that's the way it seems
(Shouldn't be the reason why you're acting strange)
If nobody's holding you back from me
(Cause I know how you usually do)
When you say everything to me times two
(Why can't you just tell the truth?)
If somebody's there then tell me who
[Chorus}
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
[Verse 1]
Any other day, I would call, you would say
"Baby, how's your day?"
But today, it ain't the same
Every other word is "uh-huh" "yeah" "ok"
Could it be that you are at the crib with another lady?
If you took it there, first of all, let me say
I am not the one to sit around, and be played
So prove yourself to me, if I'm the girl that you claim
Why don't you say the things that you said to me yesterday?
[Pre-Chorus]
(I know you say that I am assuming things)
Something's going down that's the way it seems
(Shouldn't be the reason why you're acting strange)
If nobody's holding you back from me
(Cause I know how you usually do)
When you say everything to me times two
(Why can't you just tell the truth?)
If somebody's there then tell me who
[Chorus}
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
[Verse 2]
What is up with this?
Tell the truth, who you with?
How would you like it if I came over with my clique?
Don't try to change it now, saying you gotta bounce
When two seconds ago you said you just got in the house
It's hard to believe that you are at home by yourself
When I just heard the voice, heard the voice of someone else
Just this question, why do you feel you gotta lie?
Gettin' caught up in your game, when you cannot say my name
[Pre-Chorus]
[Chorus}
[Verse 3 - Kobe Bryant]
Uh, hear me out a little bit
I got something to say about that, huh
Hold up, sweetie, slow your roll
What are you out of your mind, out of control?
Questioning me like I'm a criminal or something
Stole your heart or something
Like I'm up to something
You must be with girlfriends, gossipin'
And chicks hate on Kobe cause he ain't with them
Feel me now, listen how silly you sound
Suspecting a voice in the background
Come on now your trust is foul
Checking messages now
How old are we now?
Probably hate me now like Nastradamus
Cause I'm just keeping it real wit you honest
My silence forgive I was stressing then
I was shopping with my ex for lingerie
For my newfound love, that would be you
No shame in your name, I'll say what I want to
[Pre-Chorus]
(I know you say that I am assuming things)
Something's going down that's the way it seems
(Shouldn't be the reason why you're acting strange)
If nobody's holding you back from me
(Cause I know how you usually do)
When you say everything to me times two
(Why can't you just tell the truth?)
If somebody's there then tell me who
[Chorus}
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Why the sudden change?
Say my name, say my name
When no one is around you
Say baby I love you
If you ain't runnin' game
Say my name, say my name
You actin' kinda shady
Ain't callin' me baby
Better say my name
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- Dub Illusions
- No, No, No (Part 2 - Without Rap)
- No, No, No (Funki Dred Remix)
- No, No, No (MCD Funki Dred Remix)
- With Me (Part 2 - Without Rap)
- With Me (Part 3)
- With Me (Full Crew Revocaled Radio Version)
- With Me (Part 4)
- With Me (Part 4 - Without Rap)
- Get On The Bus (Radio Edit - Without Rap)
- Say My Name (Mr Linslee Introducing Wayne’s World)
- Jumpin’ Jumpin’ (Azza’s Remix)
- Jumpin’ Jumpin’ (Maurice’s Radio Mix)
- Bug A Boo (Maurice’s Xclusive Bug-A-Boo Club Mix)
- Bills, Bills, Bills (Maurice’s Xclusive Dub Mix)
- Say My Name (Radio Edit)
- Woman In Me
- Upside Down (Live)
- Bills, Bills, Bills (Maurice’s Xclusive Livegig Mix)
- So Good (Maurice’s Soul Remix)
- Bug A Boo (Refugee Camp Remix)
- Jumpin’, Jumpin’ (Remix Extended Version)
- No, No, No (Camdino Soul Extended Remix)
- Say My Name (Bryant Remix)
- Say My Name (Timbaland Remix)
- So Good (Digital Black-N-Groove Club Mix)
- Jumpin’ Jumpin’ (So So Def Remix)
- No No No (Part 2 - Extended Remix)
From the album
- Turn It Up (2000)
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- Say My Name
- Survivor
- Dangerously in Love
- Cater 2 U
- Soldier
- Independent Women - Part 1
- Bills, Bills, Bills
- Bootylicious
- Emotion
- Jumpin, Jumpin’
- Girl
- Brown Eyes
- If
- Lose My Breath
- 8 Days of Christmas
- Bug a Boo
- So Good
- No No No, Part 1
- Is She the Reason
- Nasty Girl
- Bad Habit
- Free
- T-Shirt
- No No No, Part 2