"The Roof (Back In Time)" is a song co-written by American singer Mariah Carey, Cory Rooney and the Trackmasters (Samuel Barnes and Jean Claude Oliver) for Carey's seventh album, Butterfly (1997). Co-produced by Carey and the Trackmasters, it is built around a sample of the Mobb Deep song "Shook Ones part II". The extended remix features a rap verse by Mobb Deep. The protagonist of this piano-driven, hip hop-influenced track recalls an intimate encounter on a rooftop.