We Gonna Take U Back (Lude)%01 Don't Leave Me
Blackstreet was an American R&B group founded in 1994 by Teddy Riley, a New… Read Full Bio ↴Blackstreet was an American R&B group founded in 1994 by Teddy Riley, a New Jack Swing pioneer known for his work as a member of Guy. The band members were: Teddy Riley, Chauncey Hannibal, Eric Williams, and Terrell Philips (and formerly Joe Stonestreet, Levi Little, David Hollister, and Mark Middleton). Their debut album, Blackstreet, was a moderate success due to the singles "Booti Call" and "Before I Let You Go", both Top 40 hits ("Before" hit the Top 10). The follow-up, 1996's Another Level was a breakthrough success due to the top single "No Diggity" (with Dr. Dre), which was a #1 hit on the Billboard Hot 100 in November 1996, and won the 1998 Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals, along with the Top 40 hit "Don't Leave Me". Another Level eventually went four times platinum in the United States and peaked at #3 on the Billboard chart. "No Diggity" is ranked at #91 on Rolling Stone and MTV: 100 Greatest Pop Songs, while Blackstreet comes in at #214 of the Top 500 Pop Artists of the Past 25 Years.

Blackstreet has also collaborated with Jay-Z on his single "The City is Mine". With the help of the Janet Jackson single "Girlfriend", Blackstreet finally had a top ten album with Finally. But personnel shifts wracked the group and contributed to the relative failure of Finally in 1999, and Blackstreet soon broke up. After rumors of legal action and a preemptive countersuit, the group reformed and released Level II in 2003.

We Gonna Take U Back %01 Don't Leave Me
Blackstreet Lyrics


What we gonna do right here is go back
Way back. Back into time

No baby no baby no baby
No, no, no

If you take your love away from me
I'll go crazy, I'll go insane

No baby no baby no baby
No, no, no
No baby no baby no baby
No, no, no

You've got your problems baby
And I've got mine
Let's just spend it all by putting it together, yeah
When you say you love me it don't mean a thing
If you care, you'll be there, like you used to be, yeah
I'm searching for the words to make you realize
That I really, really want you to stay, oh
Tears of frustration I hold inside
But if you walk away
You'll make this grown man cry

Don't leave
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight

Forget my pride girl, I beg you
You're my heart, you're my soul
You've got so much control
My love runs deep within the ocean and sea
But if you sail away
You'll take a center piece of me

Don't leave
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight

(No, don't go)

Don't leave
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight
Don't leave me girl
Please stay with me tonight

Stay, stay, stay
Stay right here with me forever
Stay, stay, stay
Stay right here with me forever

If you take your love away from me
I'll go crazy, crazy, crazy, insane

If you take your love away from me
I'll go crazy, I'll go really crazy

If you take your love away from me
I'll go crazy, I'll go really crazy

Stay, stay, stay
Stay right here with me forever
Stay, stay, stay
Stay right here with me forever

No baby, no baby, no baby


Lyrics © BMG Rights Management, Universal Music Publishing Group, Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Warner Chappell Music, Inc.



Written by: Karen Lynn Anderson, Chauncey Andrae Hannibal, Roosevelt Harrell, Etterlene Jordan, Teddy Riley

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