"Girl Talk" is a song by American group TLC. It was written by band members Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes and Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins along with Anita McLoud, Edmund "Eddie Hustle" Clement, and Kandi Burruss for the group's fourth studio album, 3D (2002). Recorded a few days before Lopes' passing in April 2002, production on the song was helmed by Clement. Lyrically, "Girl Talk" has the protagonist warning men that if they lack in the bedroom, it will spread on the street amongst the women. The song was released as the album's lead single on September 6, 2002. While the song contains vocals by Lopes, the music video for "Girl Talk," directed by Dave Meyers, marked the band's first release without Lopes, following her death in April of the same year. Upon its release, "Girl Talk" reached number twenty-three on the US Billboards Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart and number twenty-eight on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's 12th top forty entry on the latter chart. In addition, the song reached the top twenty in Denmark and New Zealand, the top thirty in the UK and the top fifty in Australia. Background "Girl Talk" was written by TLC members Lisa Lopes and Tionne Watkins along with Anita McLoud, Edmund "Eddie Hustle" Clement, and Kandi Burruss, while production was helmed by Clement. On the song, the trio address being disappointed by their "jive-talking lovers," singing: "Put in work / 'cause if you don't, that girl just gonna go spreading the word [...] Girls talk about the booty too." Watkins and Rozonda Thomas called the "controversial." In an interview with MTV News they further elaborated: "Iit's talking about [...] all the stereotypes of men, with the big hands and big feet. Just because you have big hands and big feet does not mean you have big thaaangs [...] And just because you have a big thing does not mean you know how to work it. Some people always say they have big things and they don't. And just like how men talk about women — 'I had her, I had her' — we talk about you, too." In 2019, rapper Dashun "Eastwood" Woodard, who had ghost written and was featured in Lopes' verse on "Girl Talk," told Variety that her vocals were recorded three days before her passing. Critical reception Chuck Taylor from Billboard called the song "one solid, signature track" and "a