Q-Tip

Released: November 4, 2008

Songwriter: Kurt Rosenwinkel Q-Tip

Producer: Q-Tip

[Verse 1]
She a good thang
I don’t even think twice about my good thang
She turns me out up inside
I’m staring at both from the outside
So good that it turns into a bad thing
I be thinkin’ too much about my bad thing
It’s so intoxicating
Her infection always keeps me waitin’
I just need to get a minute to tell her
I’mma call her up in the late night
And talk about the love that’s too tight
It’s floating on a belt atlantic
Phone is tapped so we not that candid
It’s your sweety ticket and brandin’
When I need it you gon’ have to unhand it
When I need it don’t leave me standin’
I just really had to tell you that

[Hook]
I want you
You know I need you
Good thang
You know I want you
Good thang

[Verse 2]
And I thinkin’ that you remember my rappin’
This confession of all good trappin’
Your impression is much too deep and
I think you need to see me
Don’t have a hittin’ agenda
When I hold you and befriend ya’
This substance here, not empty
It’s emotional you forfeit me
There’s a spark inside that’s glowin’
You feed it and it’s glowing
You radiate, you showin’
I just had to get a minute to tell you

[Hook]
You know you really touch my feelings
When you think those thoughts
You know you really touch my feelings
And when you talk that talk
You know you really touch my feelings
And when you move like that
You know you really touch my feelings
Get a minute to…

[Outro (‘Good thing’ until the end of the song)]
Just picture us together
And in the end it feels better
It’s the last single in [?]
You reward me like [?]

Jonathan Davis (born April 10, 1970), aka Kamaal Ibn John Fareed, aka Q-Tip is a rapper and producer known as a member of A Tribe Called Quest, the hip-hop group responsible for helping popularize “jazz rap” and releasing classics such as “Bonita Applebum,” “Scenario,” and “Electric Relaxation.” After Tribe released their fifth album in 1998, Q-Tip launched his solo career, releasing three albums and popular singles such as “Vivrant Thing” and “Breathe and Stop” before reuniting with Tribe in 2016 to release the group’s final album following the death of his rhyme partner Phife Dawg.

Q-Tip also produced on a number of other projects during his time with Tribe, most notably for Queens representatives Nas and Mobb Deep on their classic albums Illmatic and The Infamous respectively. In 1995, he connected with producer Jay Dee aka J Dilla and Tribe’s DJ/producer Ali Shaheed Muhammad to form the production crew The Ummah, and the trio produced and remixed tracks for Busta Rhymes, Janet Jackson, and Michael Jackson. Tip also produced for Run-DMC, The Roots, Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston, and he also worked with both Jay-Z and Kanye West on their Watch the Throne album.

Q-Tip currently has his own Abstract Radio show on Apple Music’s Beats 1 station.

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