I Gotta Be Me was an album that explored Johnny J's lyrical skills and abilities as well as his experiences in life, love, sex, relationships, and music, and was also the first appearance of the gangsta-themed female Hip-Hop/R&B quartet Y?N-Vee, who soon after recorded with Johnny J's friend 2Pac and his affiliate group, Thug Life, and released their one and only album for PMP Records, the same label that launched the career of R&B star Montell Jordan a year later.
The group's first recording was a posse cut for Johnny "J"'s one and only album, I Gotta Be Me and followed that by recording with 2Pac and his affiliate group called Thug Life (who were close people with Johnny "J".
Something's Gotta Give | Something's Gotta Give (film) | We Gotta Get out of This Place | Woman's Gotta Have It (song) | Woman's Gotta Have It | Something's Gotta Give (movie) | Something's Gotta Give (LeAnn Rimes song) | She's Gotta Have It | Searchin' (I Gotta Find a Man)#Young Divas version | Man You Gotta Get Up | Loving You's a Dirty Job But Somebody's Gotta Do It | Loving You's a Dirty Job but Somebody's Gotta Do It | I Gotta Be Me | Gotta Dance | Gotta Catch 'Em All | Gotta Be Somebody | Everybody's Gotta Pay Some Dues | Everybody's Gotta Learn Sometime | A Man's Gotta Eat |