“Oh, yes, of course. To set the record straight, Stevie Wonder and I wrote the song together. I was honored to have Stevie come to the studio and do a song with me. … At first I didn’t put my name on there. I wasn’t legally savvy then.”

— Chaka Khan, St. Louis Post-Dispatch (June 15, 2014)

Well…. kinda. These are her words:

I remember we [Rufus] were in the studio recording our first album. I was 19 at the time, I was very pregnant, very tired, and I’m sure not in a very good mood. So Stevie Wonder had been told that he should drop into the studio while we were there to check us out, and he came into the room, sat down and played us a song. And when he finished I just remember saying, “Do you have anything else?” The whole band was standing there very quietly slitting their wrists (laughs). They just couldn’t believe I said that —I mean, we were really nobodies and this legend was sitting there playing us songs. So then Stevie started playing the chords to “Tell Me Something Good,” and I said, “Now that I like.” It was that simple. We fleshed out the song right there and it became our biggest hit.