What About Your Friends

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"What About Your Friends"
TLC - What About Your Friends cover.png
Single by TLC
from the album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip
ReleasedAugust 28, 1992 (1992-08-28)
Recorded1991
Genre
Length4:00 (radio edit without rap)
4:06 (radio edit with rap)
4:55 (album version)
Label
Songwriter(s)
Producer(s)Austin
TLC singles chronology
"Baby-Baby-Baby"
(1992) 		"What About Your Friends"
(1992) 		"Hat 2 da Back"
(1992)

"What About Your Friends" is TLC's third single from their debut album, Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip. It reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top-ten single. The single was released on August 28, 1992. A remix to the single, titled "What About Your Friends (Extended Mix)" includes the first ever appearance by the Atlanta hip-hop group Outkast.

Composition[]

"What About Your Friends" was written by Dallas Austin and TLC member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes,[2] and features lead vocals by T-Boz. The song samples "Blues & Pants" by James Brown.

Music video[]

The main performance scenes of the video are the girls walking in an alley surrounded by backup dancers, underneath a bridge, on an outside staircase, on an apartment roof, in a slushie bar and wearing graffiti clothes in front of a graffiti-covered wall. Two versions of the video were made: one focuses on more of the performance shots of the girls and scenes of them infiltrating a stylish fashion show, while the other features scenes of a party in a big park where the girls are being very happy, dancing and having fun with their friends and some family members; including a scene of them reprising their roles as hillbillies from the "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg" video at the end. Jermaine Dupri makes a cameo appearance.

Commercial performance[]

The song reached number seven on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top ten single,[3] and reached No. 2 on the Hot R&B Singles chart, behind "Games" by Chuckii Booker. The single was certified gold by the RIAA.[4] In the United Kingdom, "What About Your Friends" peaked at No. 59.[5]

Charts[]

Certifications[]

Region Certification Certified units/sales
United States (RIAA)[22] Gold 500,000^

^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.

References[]

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  5. ^ "Official Charts Company". Retrieved 2012-01-05.
  6. ^ Ryan, Gavin (2011). Australia's Music Charts 1988-2010. Mt. Martha, VIC, Australia: Moonlight Publishing.
  7. ^ "Top RPM Dance/Urban: Issue 1820." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  8. ^ "Top RPM Singles: Issue 1883." RPM. Library and Archives Canada. Retrieved February 8, 2020.
  9. ^ "(28 november 1992)" (in Dutch). top40.nl. Retrieved November 28, 2019.
  10. ^ "Dutchcharts.nl – TLC – WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS" (in Dutch). Single Top 100. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  11. ^ "Charts.nz – TLC – WHAT ABOUT YOUR FRIENDS". Top 40 Singles. Retrieved 2011-05-23.
  12. ^ "TLC: Artist Chart History". Official Charts Company. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  13. ^ "Top 60 Dance Singles" (PDF). Music Week. October 24, 1992. p. 22. Retrieved September 29, 2020.
  14. ^ "TLC Chart History (Hot 100)". Billboard. Retrieved December 5, 2017.
  15. ^ "TLC Chart History (Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  16. ^ "TLC Chart History (Pop Songs)". Billboard. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  17. ^ "TLC Chart History (Rhythmic)". Billboard. Retrieved February 15, 2017.
  18. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1992". Retrieved 2010-07-30.
  19. ^ "1992 Year End Chart: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Prometheus Global Media. Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  20. ^ "Billboard Top 100 - 1993". Retrieved 2010-08-27.
  21. ^ "1993 Year End Chart: R&B/Hip-Hop Songs". Retrieved 2012-01-27.
  22. ^ "American single certifications – TLC – What About Your Friends". Recording Industry Association of America. Retrieved February 26, 2021.

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