Give It to Me Baby - wikipedia Give It to Me Baby `` Give It to Me Baby '' Single by Rick James from the album Street Songs B - side `` Do n't Give Up on Love '' Released February 20, 1981 Format 7 '' Genre Funk Length 4 : 08 Label Gordy Songwriter ( s ) Rick James Producer ( s ) Rick James Rick James singles chronology `` Big Time '' ( 1980 ) `` Give It to Me Baby '' ( 1981 ) `` Super Freak '' ( 1981 ) `` Big Time '' ( 1980 ) `` Give It to Me Baby '' ( 1981 ) `` Super Freak '' ( 1981 ) Music video `` Give It To Me Baby '' on YouTube `` Give It to Me Baby '' is a song written by American singer Rick James. Taken from his album Street Songs, the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at No. 40 and spent five weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart. Along with two other tracks from Street Songs, `` Super Freak '' and `` Ghetto Life '', topped the American dance chart for three weeks in the summer of 1981. The song proved to be even more successful with R&B and dance club audiences. This song was also featured in the 1999 romantic comedy film She 's All That as the theme soundtrack for the eccentric character Brock Hudson ( played by Matthew Lillard ), and was also featured in the video games EA Skate, Scarface : The World is Yours and in Grand Theft Auto V, on the radio station Space 103.2. DJ Jazzy Jeff & the Fresh Prince 's `` I 'm All That '' used a sample of the song as the opening track from the Homebase album in 1991. Sampling Parts of the track were sampled or interpolated on : Let 's Get It Started by MC Hammer ( 1988 ) Fight the Power by Public Enemy ( 1989 ) Libera L'anima by Jovanotti ( 1991 ) Gitty Up by Salt - N - Pepa ( 1998 ) Dooinit by Common ( 2000 ) I Just Wanna Love U ( Give It To Me ) by Jay - Z ( 2000 ) P&P 1.5 by Kendrick Lamar ( 2010 ) See also List of number - one dance hits ( United States ) R&B number - one hits of 1981 ( USA ) References Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Top R&B / Hip - Hop Singles : 1942 - 2004. Record Research. p. 291. Jump up ^ Whitburn, Joel ( 2004 ). Hot Dance / Disco : 1974 - 2003. Record Research. p. 134. `` Jay - Z Feat. Omillio Sparks, Pharrell and Shay HaleyI Just Wanna Love U ( Give It 2 Me ). '' WhoSampled. Ed. JuniorXL. WhoSampled.com Limited, n.d. Web. 22 Jan. 2013. http://www.ign.com/faqs/2007/skate-soundtrack-song-list-796118 Preceded by `` What Cha ' Gonna Do For Me '' by Chaka Khan Billboard Hot Soul Singles number - one single June 13, 1981 -- July 11, 1981 Succeeded by `` Double Dutch Bus '' by Frankie Smith Preceded by `` Try It Out '' / `` Hold Tight '' by Gino Soccio Billboard Hot Dance Club Play number - one single with `` Super Freak '' and `` Ghetto Life '' July 25, 1981 -- August 8, 1981 Succeeded by `` I 'm in Love '' by Evelyn King Rick James Studio albums Come Get It ! ( with Stone City Band ) Bustin ' Out of L Seven Fire It Up Garden of Love Street Songs Throwin ' Down Cold Blooded Glow The Flag Wonderful Kickin ' Urban Rapsody Deeper Still Compilations Reflections Greatest Hits Bustin ' Out : The Very Best of Rick James Ultimate Collection The Millennium Collection : The Best of Rick James Anthology Greatest Hits Gold The Millennium Collection : The Best of Rick James, Vol. 2 The Definitive Collection Songs `` You and I '' `` Mary Jane '' `` Give It to Me Baby '' `` Super Freak '' `` Dance wit ' Me '' `` Ebony Eyes '' `` Cold Blooded '' `` Glow '' `` Loosey 's Rap '' Related I 'm Rick James ( 2007 documentary ) The Stone City Band The Mynah Birds Mary Jane Girls `` Party All the Time '' `` In the Ghetto '' `` U Ca n't Touch This '' `` Charlie Murphy 's True Hollywood Stories : Rick James '' Book : Rick James Retrieved from `` https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Give_It_to_Me_Baby&oldid=799929560 '' Categories : Rick James songs 1981 singles Billboard Dance Club Songs number - one singles Billboard Hot R&B / Hip - Hop Songs number - one singles Songs written by Rick James 1980 songs Gordy Records singles Hidden categories : Use mdy dates from June 2012 Articles with hAudio microformats Talk About Wikipedia Add links This page was last edited on 10 September 2017, at 17 : 32. About Wikipedia

Question: who sings the song give it to me baby
Answer: Rick James