Song Information
In "Girlfriend", Keys cannot help but think that her boyfriend is having a relationship with his close female friend. She says she knows that the woman is only a friend of him, but she cannot stop thinking that her boyfriend may leave her. Keys then proceeds to say that she thinks she jealous of his "girlfriend".
The song contains an interpolation from Ol' Dirty Bastard's 1995 song "Brooklyn Zoo".
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