"Creep" is a song recorded by American group TLC for their second studio album CrazySexyCool (1994). It was written and produced by the trio's long-time collaborator Dallas Austin, the one who tried to write the track from his "female perspective", basing on group member Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins's real story of infidelity. The danceable R&B track's context portrayed the singers as women that cheating back at their lovers to get the attention. This context was, however, considered to be quite controversial as the trio's rapper Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes strongly opposed it when she even threatened to wear black tape over her mouth on the accompanying music video.

Despite that, LaFace and Arista Records still released the song as the album's lead single on October 31, 1994 to its critical and commercial success. Many music critics hailed the song as a "masterpiece" with praises went to Austin's production and TLC's new musical direction. On the record charts, "Creep" became the group's first number one in the United States where led the Billboard Hot 100 for four consecutive weeks and was certificated Platinum status in sales. Followed the song's European reissue in early 1996, it climbed to United Kingdom and New Zealand's top-tens and gained many top-forty peaks in other regional countries. Since the release, the song has received many recognition from various publications' best-of lists and awards, including giving the trio their first Grammy Award for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals at the 38th ceremony.

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