Gotta Get Mine

1993 single by MC Breed

"Gotta Get Mine"

Single by MC Breed

from the album The New Breed

B-side

"Watch Your Own Back"

Released

June 3, 1993 (1993-06-03)

Studio

Track Recordings (Los Angeles, California)

Genre

Hip hop

Length

4:22 (album version)

Label

Wrap Records
Ichiban

Composer(s)

Colin Wolfe
Warren Griffin III

Lyricist(s)

Eric Tyrone Breed
Tupac Shakur
Tracy Lynn Curry

Producer(s)

Warren G
Colin Wolfe
MC Breed

MC Breed singles chronology

"No Frontin' Allowed"
(1992)

"Gotta Get Mine"
(1993)

"Tight"
(1993)

2Pac singles chronology

"Call It What U Want"
(1993)

"'Gotta Get Mine'"
(1993)

"I Get Around"
(1993)

Music video

"Gotta Get Mine" on YouTube

"Gotta Get Mine" is a song performed by American rappers MC Breed and Tupac Shakur. It was released on June 3, 1993, through Wrap Records with distribution via Ichiban Records, as a lead single from MC Breed's second solo studio album The New Breed. Its lyrics were written by Breed, 2Pac and The D.O.C., and the music was composed by Colin Wolfe and Warren G. It was produced by Warren G, Colin Wolfe and MC Breed.

The single peaked at number 96 on the Billboard Hot 100, at number 61 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs and at number 6 on the Hot Rap Songs in the United States, making it the second MC Breed's successful single after 1991 "Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin'".

The song was later included in MC Breed's 1995 greatest hits album The Best of Breed, and was featured in the soundtrack to the 1998 film Ringmaster and in the 2002 film 8 Mile. It was also remixed for MC Breed's seventh studio album It's All Good.

Track listing

12" vinyl single
No.	Title	Lyrics	Music	Producer(s)	Length
1.	"Gotta Get Mine" (Radio/Video Remix)	E. Breed T. Shakur T. Curry	C. Wolfe W. Griffin III	Warren G Colin Wolfe MC Breed	4:25
2.	"Gotta Get Mine" (Album Version)	E. Breed T. Shakur T. Curry	C. Wolfe W. Griffin III	Warren G Colin Wolfe MC Breed	4:22
3.	"Watch Your Own Back" (featuring Admiral D, Jibri & Black Caesar)	E. Breed D. Jabrigar Admiral D Black Caesar	C. Wolfe W. Griffin III	Warren G Colin Wolfe MC Breed	3:42

Personnel

Eric Tyrone Breed – lyrics, vocals, producer
Tupac Amaru Shakur – lyrics & vocals (tracks: 1, 2)
Admiral D – lyrics & vocals (track 3)
Dale "Jibri" Jabrigar – lyrics & vocals (track 3)
Black Caesar – lyrics & vocals (track 3)
Colin Fitzroy Wolfe – music, producer
Warren Griffin III – music, producer
Tracy Lynn Curry – lyrics (tracks: 1, 2)
Jimmy O'Neill – mixing (track 1)
Earl – engineering
FPD3 – art direction, design

Charts

Chart (1993)	Peak position
US Billboard Hot 100^[1]	96
US Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs (Billboard)^[2]	61
US Hot Rap Songs (Billboard)^[3]	6

References

^ "MС Breed Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
^ "MС Breed Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved December 11, 2018.
^ "MС Breed Chart History (Hot Rap Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved December 11, 2018.

External links

MC Breed – Gotta Get Mine at Discogs (list of releases)

MC Breed

Studio albums

20 Below (1992)
The New Breed (1993)
Funkafied (1994)
Big Baller (1995)
To Da Beat Ch'all (1996)
Flatline (1997)
It's All Good (1999)
The Fharmacist (2001)
The New Prescription (2004)

Collaborative albums

M.C. Breed & DFC. (with DFC) (1991)

Compilation albums

The Best of Breed (1995)
Saucy (1997)
2 for the Show (1999)
The Thugz, Vol. 1 (2000)
Rare Breed (2000)
Chopped and Screwed (2002)
The Mix Tape (2004)
The Hits (with DFC) (2007)

Singles

"Ain't No Future in Yo' Frontin'"
"Gotta Get Mine"

v t e Tupac Shakur
Discography Songs Awards and nominations Death
Studio albums	2Pacalypse Now Strictly 4 My N.I.G.G.A.Z... Me Against the World All Eyez on Me
Posthumous albums	The Don Killuminati: The 7 Day Theory R U Still Down? (Remember Me) Still I Rise Until the End of Time Better Dayz Loyal to the Game Pac's Life
Live albums	2Pac Live Live at the House of Blues
Remix albums	Nu-Mixx Klazzics Nu-Mixx Klazzics Vol. 2
Compilation albums	Greatest Hits Beginnings: The Lost Tapes 1988–1991 The Prophet: The Best of the Works Tupac: Resurrection The Prophet Returns Best of 2Pac
Related albums	Nothing but Trouble (soundtrack) Sons of the P Juice (soundtrack) Poetic Justice (soundtrack) Above the Rim (soundtrack) Gridlock'd (soundtrack) Gang Related (soundtrack) A 2Pac Tribute: Dare 2 Struggle The Rose That Grew from Concrete The Rose, Vol. 2
Extended plays	Don't Go 2 Sleep
Singles	"Brenda's Got a Baby" "If My Homie Calls" "Trapped" "Holler If Ya Hear Me" "I Get Around" "Keep Ya Head Up" "Papa'z Song" "Cradle to the Grave" "Dear Mama" "So Many Tears" "Temptations" "California Love" "2 of Amerikaz Most Wanted" "How Do U Want It" "I Ain't Mad at Cha" "Toss It Up" "To Live & Die in LA" "Hail Mary" "Wanted Dead or Alive"
Posthumous singles	"I Wonder If Heaven Got a Ghetto" "Do for Love" "Changes" "Unconditional Love" "Baby Don't Cry (Keep Ya Head Up II)" "Until the End of Time" "Letter 2 My Unborn" "Thugz Mansion" "Still Ballin'" "Runnin' (Dying to Live)" "One Day at a Time (Em's Version)" "Thugs Get Lonely Too" "Ghetto Gospel" "Untouchable" "Pac's Life" "Playa Cardz Right"
Other songs	"I Don't Give a Fuck" "Runnin' from tha Police" "Ambitionz az a Ridah" "All Eyez on Me" "Hit 'Em Up" "Are U Still Down" "Panther Power"
Featured singles	"Gotta Get Mine" "Smile" "Playa Cardz Right"
Books	The Rose That Grew from Concrete
Stage	Holler If Ya Hear Me
Documentaries	Biggie & Tupac Tupac: Resurrection Tupac: Assassination Dear Mama
Outlawz	Yaki Kadafi Kastro Napoleon E.D.I. Mean Hussein Fatal Mussolini Komani Young Noble
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