Me Myself and I

Released as a single in March 1989, it was the group's only number one on the US Billboard R&B chart and also topped the Hot Dance Club Play chart. It reached number one in the Netherlands too, spurred by a VPRO television documentary about the group. Late in the album sessions, Tommy Boy's Tom Silverman asked for a radio-friendly record. Maseo suggested sampling the 1979 funk track (Not Just) Knee Deep, and Prince Paul turned it into the beat. Posdnuos and Trugoy disliked the idea at first, because the group saw itself as anti-radio, but they recorded vocals over it anyway. Trugoy did most of the writing, working from the rhyme pattern of the Jungle Brothers' Black Is Black. Posdnuos said the press was calling them the hippies of hip-hop and that the song became a way to say it was not a gimmick. Trugoy's lines ask to be himself, "not what you read or write."

Charles Stone III directed the video, which puts the group in a satirical classroom with a teacher pushing rap clichés, and Q-Tip and Ali Shaheed Muhammad appear in cameos. On the first national tour, the group came to dread performing it, and later they introduced it by asking the crowd to chant "We hate this song." The Guardian's Alexis Petridis called it a fixture on mainstream classic radio, and the song was used in the film Never Been Kissed.