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"Just Got Paid" is a 1988 single by Bahamian R&B singer–songwriter Johnny Kemp.

"Just Got Paid"
Single by Johnny Kemp
from the album Secrets of Flying
Released	January 19, 1988 (1988-01-19)
Recorded	1987
Genre	New jack swing[1]
Length	5:33 (album version)
Label	Columbia
Songwriter(s)	Gene Griffin, Johnny Kemp[2]
Producer(s)	Teddy Riley, Johnny Kemp[3]
Johnny Kemp singles chronology
"Dancin' with Myself" (1988) "Just Got Paid" (1988) "One Thing Led to Another" (1988)

Background

The song started as an instrumental track by Teddy Riley for which Keith Sweat wrote lyrics. Sweat ultimately passed on the song that was originally written for his 1987 debut Make It Last Forever.[4] Kemp recorded a demo of the new song, intending for it to be used by another singer; his "scratch vocal" ended up on the final release.[5]

Chart performance

The song hit No. 1 on the U.S. R&B and Dance charts and reached No. 10 on the Billboard Hot 100.[6][7]

Accolades

"Just Got Paid" received a Grammy Award nomination for Best R&B Song at the 31st Grammy Awards in 1989. It lost out to Anita Baker's "Giving You the Best That I Got".

Covers and sampling

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• The song was covered by NSYNC on their album No Strings Attached (2000), which was also produced by the song's original producer Teddy Riley.
• The song was covered by CDB on their 2017 album Tailored for Now.
• It was sampled by Kurupt on the song "At It Again" off his Space Boogie: Smoke Oddessey album.

In popular culture

This section does not cite any sources. (May 2022)

• The song was used in the 2000 romantic film Love & Basketball.
• Kemp performed "Just Got Paid" in an "all-star finale" on Keith Sweat's 2007 DVD Sweat Hotel Live, recorded at a February 2006 concert in Atlanta, Georgia.

Charts

References

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