You Gots to Chill

{{Infobox song | name = You Gots to Chill | cover = You Gots to Chill.jpg | alt = | type = single | artist = [[EPMD]] | album = [[Strictly Business (EPMD album)|Strictly Business]] | released = April 30, 1988 | recorded = 1988 | studio = | genre = [[East Coast hip hop]] | length = 4:26 | label = {{hlist|[[Fresh Records (US)|Fresh]]|[[Sleeping Bag Records|Sleeping Bag]]}} | writer = {{hlist|[[Erick Sermon]]|[[Parrish Smith]]}} | producer = EPMD | prev_title = It's My Thing | prev_year = 1987 | next_title = [[Strictly Business (EPMD song)|Strictly Business]] | next_year = 1988 | misc = {{External music video|{{YouTube|fAugOjG4qOc|"You Gots to Chill"}}}} }}

"'''You Gots to Chill'''" is a song by [[EPMD]], released as a single from their 1988 debut album ''[[Strictly Business (EPMD album)|Strictly Business]]''. It reached number 22 on the U.S. [[Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs|R&B chart]]. The song prominently features a sample from "[[More Bounce to the Ounce]]" by [[Zapp (band)|Zapp]] and "[[Jungle Boogie]]" by [[Kool & the Gang]]. This song is widely considered a hip hop classic and has been paid homage by various rappers who have quoted the lyrics to this song in their own music, including [[Snoop Dogg]] and [[LL Cool J]], among others. It was number 74 on VH1's 100 Greatest Hip Hop Songs.

==Music video== The official music video was directed by [[Adam Bernstein]], who would also direct the video for "[[So Wat Cha Sayin']]" a year later.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Ducker |first1=Eric |title=On the Job Training: Part Two - Adam Bernstein |url=http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/on-the-job-training-2/ |website=waxpoetics.com |publisher=Wax Poetics |access-date=2018-08-21 |archive-date=2018-08-21 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180821223224/http://www.waxpoetics.com/blog/features/articles/on-the-job-training-2/ |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==References== {{Reflist}}

[[Category:1988 singles]] [[Category:1988 songs]] [[Category:EPMD songs]] [[Category:Funk-rap songs]] [[Category:Music videos directed by Adam Bernstein]] [[Category:Sleeping Bag Records singles]] [[Category:Songs written by Erick Sermon]] [[Category:Songs written by Roger Troutman]] [[Category:Songs written by PMD (rapper)]]