What About Your Friends

Single infobox
Name = What about Your Friends?


Artist = TLC
from Album = Ooooooohhh.... On the TLC Tip
Released = August 28, 1992 (U.S. cassette)
November 13, 1992 (U.S. CD)
Format = CD single, Audio cassette, Maxi single
Recorded = 1991
Genre = R&B, new jack swing
Length = 4:00 (Radio edit w/o rap)
4:06 (Radio edit w/ rap)
4:55 (Album version)
Label = LaFace/Arista
Writer = Dallas Austin
Lisa Lopes
Producer = Dallas Austin
Certification = RIAA: Gold
Last single = "Baby-Baby-Baby"
(1992)
This single = "What about Your Friends?"
(1992)
Next single = "Hat 2 Da Back"
(1993)Extra tracklisting
Album = Ooooooohhh.... On the TLC Tip
Type = studio
prev_track = "Das Da Way We Like 'Em"
prev_no = 6
this_track = "What About Your Friends"
track_no = 7
next_track = "His Story"
next_no = 8

"What about Your Friends?" is TLC's third single from their debut album, "Ooooooohhh.... On the TLC Tip". The single was released in the fall of 1992. "What about Your Friends?" received massive airplay worldwide and became a hit on both R&B and dance charts.

ong information

"What about Your Friends?" was written by Dallas Austin and TLC-member Lisa "Left-Eye" Lopes. Dallas Austin also produced the single. The song is an uptempo ballad and is about friends that will betray others and knowing who your real friends are. The remix features one of the first appearances by OutKast.It also offers T-Boz hitting the high note at the beginning of the song, as well as the deeper notes in the verse; which she came be to known for.

Chart success

The song reached #7 on the Billboard Hot 100, becoming the group's third consecutive top ten single, while reaching #2 on Billboard's Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks. The single was also certified gold by the RIAA.

The song was not as successful in the UK. "What about Your Friends?" became TLC's second consecutive single not to reach the top forty singles in the UK, peaking at #59.

Charts