"Girlfight" is the first single recorded by R&B

Rhythm and blues

Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...

 singer Brooke Valentine

Brooke Valentine

Kanesha Nichole Brookes , better known by her stage name Brooke Valentine, is an American R&B singer and former member of the group Best Kept Secret. In 2005, her single "Girlfight" was a hit on the United States single charts....

. It was her first single from her debut album Chain Letter

Chain Letter (album)

Chain Letter is the debut album by Brooke Valentine, released on March 15, 2005 . The album contains the lead single "Girlfight", that features Big Boi from the band Outkast, and Lil Jon. "Girlfight" peaked at #23 in the Billboard Hot 100 and is a song about tension between two girls which ends up...

. The song features Lil Jon

Lil Jon

Jonathan Mortimer Smith , better known by his stage name Lil Jon, is an American rapper, music producer, entrepreneur, and occasional disc jockey who was a member of the group Lil Jon & The East Side Boyz. Lil Jon formed the group in 1997, and the group released several albums between then and 2004...

 and Big Boi

Big Boi

Antwan André Patton , better known by his stage name Big Boi, is an American rapper, song-writer, record producer and actor, best known for being a member of American hip hop duo OutKast alongside André 3000. His work in the duo has produced six studio albums. During the duo's hiatus, he and André...

 from OutKast

OutKast

Outkast is an American hip hop duo based in East Point, Georgia, consisting of Atlanta native André "André 3000" Benjamin and Savannah, Georgia-born Antwan "Big Boi" Patton. They were originally known as Two Shades Deep but later changed the group's name to OutKast...

. The song is about a tension between two girls who end up in a catfight

Catfight

Catfight is a term for an altercation between two women, typically involving scratching, slapping, hair-pulling, and shirt-shredding as opposed to punching or wrestling . However, the term is not exclusively used to indicate a fight between women, and many formal definitions do not invoke gender...

 and was a minor Top 30 hit, peaking at #23 in June, 2005. A remix was made which features Valentine, Da Brat

Da Brat

Shawntae Harris , better known as Da Brat, is an American rapper and actress. Her debut album, Funkdafied, sold one million copies, making her the first female rapper to have a platinum-selling album.-Early life:...

, Ms. B and Remy Ma

Remy Ma

Reminisce Smith , better known by her stage name Remy Ma, formerly known as Remy Martin, is a Grammy nominated American rapper and former member of Fat Joe's rap crew, Terror Squad...

. This remains as Valentine's only hit.

Formats and track listings

• 12" single

Side 1

1. "Girlfight" [clean radio edit]
2. "Girlfight" [instrumental]
3. "Girlfight" [acappella]

Side 2

1. "Girlfight" [explicit radio mix]
2. "Girlfight" [explicit extended edit]
3. "Girlfight" [explicit acappella]

• CD single

1. "Girlfight" 3:54
2. "Thrill of the Chase" 3:07

• Maxi single

1. "Girlfight" 3:56
2. "Thrill of the Chase" 3:07
3. "Girlfight Pt. II" 3:21

Charts

Chart (2005)	Peak Position
Australia Singles Top 50	50
German Singles Top 100	70
New Zealand Top 40	28
Irish Singles Chart Irish Singles Chart The Irish Singles Chart is Ireland's music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by the Irish Recorded Music Association and compiled on behalf of the IRMA by Chart-Track. Chart rankings are based on sales, which are compiled through over-the-counter retail data captured...	47
UK Singles Chart UK Singles Chart The UK Singles Chart is compiled by The Official Charts Company on behalf of the British record-industry. The full chart contains the top selling 200 singles in the United Kingdom based upon combined record sales and download numbers, though some media outlets only list the Top 40 or the Top 75 ...	35
Swiss Singles Top 100	61
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...	23
U.S. Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...	13
U.S. Pop 100 Pop 100 The Pop 100 was a songs chart that debuted in February 2005 and was released weekly by Billboard magazine in the United States until its discontinuation in 2009...	36
U.S. Top 40 Mainstream	30