Give It To Me Baby on YouTube Give It to Me Baby is a song written by American singer Rick James. Taken from his album Street Songs, the song charted on the Billboard Hot 100, spending two weeks at No. 40 and spent five weeks at No. 1 on the R&B chart. Along with two other tracks from Street Songs, Super Freak and Ghetto Life, topped the American dance chart for three weeks in the summer of 1981.