About “I Got a Man”

“I Got A Man” is Positive K’s signature song and biggest hit, reaching #14 in the US and #43 in the UK.

In 1988, the b-side of Positive K’s second single “A Good Combination” was a duet with MC Lyte named “I’m Not Havin' It” which became his first charting song, reaching #16 on the Rap Chart. Then after the success of his fourth single “Nightshift” featuring Big Daddy Kane in 1992, Pos K signed with Island Records and began work on his debut album The Skills Dat Pay Da Bills. For the album’s lead single, Pos K re-used the basic call-and-response format of “I’m Not Havin' It” to create “I Got A Man”. This time the track featured an unnamed female rapper (that turned out to actually be Pos K’s own voice pitch-shifted).

After the success of “I Got A Man”, an effort to strike gold a third time with another call-and-response song between a man and woman was attempted with a re-worked version of “Carhoppers”, but it failed to chart. Pos K, having no other songs reach the top 40 in the US, has since been labeled a one-hit wonder.