Watch the official video for Biz Markie's "Just A Friend", his most successful Pop single, reaching the position on the Billboard charts.

C Have you ever met a girl that you tried to date Dm But a year to make love she wanted you to wait Let me tell ya a story of my situation G I was talking to this girl from the .

A. Just A Friend (LP Version). B. Just A Friend (Instrumental). Written-By – Biz Markie, Marcel Hall. From the Cold Chillin'/Warner Bros. album, The Biz Never Sleeps (1-26003). Just A Friend ‎(7", Single). Records, Cold Chillin'.

Album: The Biz Never Sleeps (1989). Charted: 55 9. Get the Sheet Music License This Song. This was common practice at the time, as most samples and interpolations were not cleared. On his next album, Markie did a similar interpretation of "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan for the track "Alone Again. At the time, rappers could sample without consequence, as there was no legal precedent. This changed when O'Sullivan sued Biz Markie in 1991, resulting in a landmark decision that unauthorized samples were considered theft. Markie was forced to pull the.

About Just A Friend lyrics. Album The Biz Never Sleeps (1989). Lyrics By. Biz Markie, Marcel Hall. you say he's just a friend. So I took blah-blah's word for it at this time I thought just havin' a friend couldn't be no crime 'Cause I have friends and that's a fact Like Agnes, Agatha, Germaine, and Jacq Forget about that, let's go into the story About a girl named blah-blah-blah that adored me So we started talkin', getttin' familiar Spendin' a lot of time so we can build up A relationship or some undderstanding How it's gonna be in the future we was plannin' Everything sounded so dandy and sweet I had no idea I was in for a treat.

Marcel Theo Hall (born April 8, 1964), better known by his stage name Biz Markie, is an American rapper, beatboxer, DJ, actor, comedian, television personality and spokesperson. He is best known for his 1989 single "Just a Friend", which became a Top 40 hit in several countries. In 2008, "Just a Friend" made on VH1's list of the 100 greatest hip hop songs of all time. Biz Markie lives in Howard County, Maryland and has helped support County Executive Ken Ulman during his fundraisers.

Sampled from Freddie Scott and made a million times better by Biz Markie. When you’re playing this one on uke it’s worth adding in a few supporting strums between the notes. Which is what I did when I quoted it at the end of my version of Gossip.

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Have you ever met a girl that you tried to date But a year to make love she wanted you to wait Let me tell ya a story of my situation I was talkin' to this girl from the .