Raphael Saadiq

Released: March 23, 1999

Featuring: Q-Tip

Songwriter: Kenneth Gamble & Leon Huff John Whitehead Gene McFadden Leon Huff Kenneth Gamble Q-Tip Raphael Saadiq

Producer: Raphael Saadiq Q-Tip

[Intro: Q-Tip]
Ummah, Ummah, Ummah
S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo he wanna get involved...

[Verse 1: Raphael Saadiq]
Met this girl walking in the ghetto
(Uh huh, uh huh)
Looking good but looking down
(What's you say, come on by)
Said she needed inspiration
(What'd you say)
I said, 'Get yo shit cause we're goin uptown'
(Uptown baby, uptown, say what)
I could tell she was feelin better
(Yeah, yeah come on, yeah)
When she got inside the car
(When she got inside the car)
She was a dark-skinned girl with pretty cornrows
(uh uh)
She was doin her best to try to hide her scars
(Say come on now, what you say now)

[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq]
I don't really care
About that there, just get involved
Boy you, makin me feel, uh oh so real
Just get involved

[Verse 2: Raphael Saadiq]
Everytime I take you around friends
(Come on, everytime I take you around friends)
I catch them looking at you love
(Lookin' at you love, lookin' at you love like that)
You know it never ever bothered me
Because I know that I'm the one you're thinking of

[Chorus: Raphael Saadiq]
I don't really care
About that there, just get involved
Boy you, makin me feel, uh oh so real
Just get involved

[Verse 3: Q-Tip]
Word up, word up, word up yo
Raphael just stopped in his tracks
Get involved and make it into the pack
You know the way that you present your thing
We in the belly so we might as well cling
The way you shine shorty you da shit
The princess in the pauper pit
We may be poor but we rich in soul
Just get involved and get in control
Just get involved and get in control
You know the way we do it, yo we roll

[Interlude: Raphael Saadiq]
Oh, oh, oh, oh

[Outro: Q-Tip]
S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo, he wanna get involved with you
Mr. S-A double-D-I-Q
Yo he wanna get involved...

Raphael Saadiq (born Charles Ray Wiggins on May 14, 1966) is a Grammy Award-winning singer, songwriter, producer, and musician. He is known for his neo-soul and 1960s vintage sound after starting out with the New Jack Swing sounds in his group Tony! Toni! Toné! He has produced for many artists such as Mary J. Blige, Whitney Houston, Joss Stone, Snoop Dogg, The Roots, D'Angelo, and Erykah Badu—the artist he worked with in 2002 on the Grammy-winning song “Love of My Life (An Ode To Hip Hop)”.

Charlie Ray Wiggins became Raphael Wiggins when he auditioned to play bass guitar with Sheila E.’s backing band on Prince’s Parade Tour in 1984. Following the tour, Raphael returned to Oakland and started working on music for Tony! Toni! Toné! with his brother D'Wayne Wiggins and their cousin Timothy Christian Riley. They released their debut album Who? in 1988 and followed that with a string of hit singles and platinum The Revival (1990), Sons of Soul (1993), and House of Music (1996).

After the Sons of Soul album, Raphael changed his last name to Saadiq—Arabic for “man of his word"—as a way to stand out. He released his hit debut solo single “Ask of You” in 1995 and left the Tonys in 1997. In 1999, he joined with Dawn Robinson and Ali Shaheed Muhammad to form the group Lucy Pearl and released their only self-titled album in 2000 before disbanding. He released his debut solo album Instant Vintage in 2002 and followed with four more Ray Ray (2004), The Way I See It (2008), Stone Rollin' (2011), and Jimmy Lee (2019).

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