Good Man Songwriting Credits by Ne-Yo

Good Man runs on the authorship pattern that defines Ne-Yo's whole catalog: he co-writes every track, so his birth name Shaffer Chimere Smith anchors the composer column on all seventeen songs while the common credit 'Ne-Yo' carries the lyricist line. The two solo interludes, 'Caterpillars 1st' and 'The Struggle,' are his alone in every column and he self-produces both. Everywhere else he shares the pen with the producers who built the tracks, so the composer credits double as a who's-who of the board: Lukasz Gottwald and Henry Walter behind Dr. Luke and Cirkut, Mikkel Eriksen and Tor Hermansen as Stargate, Darhyl Camper as DJ Camper, and Brandon Green as Maejor. Featured guests who sing on a track also tend to write on it, which is why Bebe Rexha (Bleta Rexha), Stefflon Don (Stephanie Allen), PartyNextDoor (Jahron Brathwaite), and Eric Bellinger appear in both the performer and writer lines. The clearest outside authorship is on the title track: because 'Good Man' interpolates D'Angelo's 'Untitled (How Does It Feel),' its writers include Michael Archer (D'Angelo) and Raphael Saadiq (legal name Charles Ray Wiggins) even though neither performs on the record.