Songfacts®:

• This was Joe Tex's highest-charting career single as far as the Billboard Hot 100 was concerned. It is all original Joe Tex, in his own absolutely inimitable style - he's known as one of the precursors of rap music.
  
  While Joe Tex may have been charting on the Hot 100 since 1965, his previous highest score had been #5 for his breakout single "Hold What You've Got". Since that time, he'd barely tasted the Top-10. This song was actually the B-side of "A Mother's Prayer" - Radio station DJs would flip it and play this side instead, giving him his highest-charting hit.
• We have yet another Tarantino hit! The film Reservoir Dogs features this song prominently. It's used for the scene where three of the robbers transport the hostage cop to their warehouse hideaway, where they proceed to beat the nickels out of him, both because they suspect they were set up and just to work off some frustration after their robbery plan goes to pieces. The action is even choreographed to the music a little; watch Michael Madsen pulling off a length of duct tape in time to the lyrics for a beat or two.
• Does "I Gotcha" show a little James Brown influence? There might have been more than just inspiration going on there; the two, who sometimes shared a stage, feuded quite a bit. Tex said Brown copied him and later stole his girlfriend, Brown didn't like the way Tex made fun of him. According to AOL-Spinner, this led to an incident where allegedly Brown used a gun to fire a few rounds at Tex in a nightclub, then pay off the patrons with $100 bills so they wouldn't call the police.
• Joe Tex re-recorded "I Gotcha" for his 1978 album Rub Down, this time as a ballad.