It's My Beat
"It's My Beat" is the debut single as lead artist of American rapper Sweet Tee and DJ Jazzy Joyce, released in 1986 via Profile Records. In 1988 it was included on Sweet Tee's debut album "It's Tee Time". Produced by Hurby "Luv Bug" Azor, who also has writing credits for the song alongside Sweet Tee, the single was later released in the UK through Champion Records. In February 1987 "It's My Beat" had an entry at  98 on the UK Singles Chart. In the end of year-roundups, the song placed at   19 in "The Face" list of best singles of 1987. In 1999, "Ego Trip"s editors ranked "It's My Beat" at  20 in their list of Hip Hop's 40 Greatest Singles by Year 1986 in "Ego Trip's Book of Rap Lists". Conception and composition. Sweet Tee has told in an interview with "The Hype Magazine" in 2020 that she met Hurby Luv Bug Azor in a club in Manhattan, who asked her to record a song: Regarding Jazzy Joyce's work on the song Sweet Tee would say "Jazzy Joyce is an incredible female DJ that I saw  playing in the park one day. I asked her to be part of the camp, and I went back in the studio and added a fourth verse to the song with her name in it." Personnel. Credits are taken from the liner notes and the official page of the ASCAP.