Dear John (MC Lyte song)

"Dear John"
Single by MC Lyte featuring Common & 10Beats
from the album Legend
ReleasedSeptember 10, 2014
GenreConscious Rap
Length3:20
LabelSunni Gyrl Inc.
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Loudbox
MC Lyte singles chronology
"This Is Your Life"
(2014)
"Dear John"
(2014)
"Ball"
(2014)
Music video
"Dear John" on YouTube

"Dear John" is a single by MC Lyte featuring Common & 10Beats from her subsequent eighth solo album Legend.

The song seeks to give a positive message about maintaining a father-son relationship and also serves as the official anthem of #EducateOURMen, the scholarship arm of the MC Lyte foundation's Hip Hop Sisters Network. It chart on the real-time US Billboard + Twitter Trending 140, where it peaked No. 3, being Lyte's first solo work to appear on a chart since her album Da Undaground Heat, Vol. 1.