Brooke Valentine, Girlfight | Rap BNGRZ 🔥

In the 25^th edition of Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (2023), we break down the banger status of “Girlfight,” performed by Brooke Valentine.

Bring on the braggadocio, drip, sex, and kicka$$ery, WOO! You’ve entered Rap BNGRZ 🔥 territory! On Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (bangers being the proper spelling), the premise is simple. Rap BNGRZ provides background info and commentary on cocky, confident, ferocious hip-hop/rap songs. The bangers can be brand-spanking-new or certified classics. In the 25^th edition of Rap BNGRZ 🔥 (2023), we break down the banger status of 🎵 “Girlfight” performed by 🎙 Brooke Valentine. 

“Boy stop / It’s about to be a girl fight!” WOO! 🎙 Brooke Valentine probably won’t ring a bell to a modern R&B audience.  Why? Well, the Valentine earned just one charting single on the Billboard Hot 100. That single, 🎵 “Girlfight”, which appeared on her sole album, 💿 Chain Letter (2005), and peaked at no. 23. “Girlfight” was no slouch, enlists the services of then two extremely popular rappers: 🎙 Lil Jon and 🎙 Big Boi.  The record embraced the crunk style that was popular, with Lil Jon producing the electrifying joint.

The chorus is the main attraction – duh! “We ‘bout to throw them bows  / We ‘bout to swang them thangs,” the Houston artist sings, closing the chorus with “It’s ‘bout to be a (What) girl fight.” After bringing feistiness early on the intro and chorus, Brooke expresses why this fight is about to go down. Brooke complains about the initial girl spreading mess in the first verse, but also takes a shot at her friend who could potentially get into the mix.  By the second verse, Brooke and her entourage (“Me and my girls we down to ride / So when ya hear us pull up bring ya ass outside”) are ready to F-I-G-H-T (“I’m ‘bout to go real hard, ‘bout to swing them thangs / You ‘bout to feel elbows all in ya brains”).  Besides Brooke, we get various hype man moments from Lil Jon as well as a colorful, entertaining verse by Big Boy (“Oh snap, these bitches they act like cats /… Man go on let them hoes fight”). “Girlfight” – an underrated bop you totally forgot about or perhaps, you never heard!

🎙 Brooke Valentine • 💿 Chain Letter • 🏷 Virgin • 📅 2005

Brooke Valentine, Girlfight: Rap BNGRZ 🔥 No. 25 (2023) [📷: Brent Faulkner/The Musical Hype; Virgin; cottonbro studio via Pexels]