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"Bossy" is the an R&B/Hip-hop song written by Kelis, Mario Alonzo, Shondrae "Bangladesh" Crawford, Jasper Cameron, Sean Garrett, and Todd "Too $hort" Shaw for Kelis' fourth studio album Kelis Was Here (2006). It features Too $hort and was released as the album's lead single in May 2006 in the United States. The song peaked at number sixteen on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, making it the singer's second biggest Hot 100 hit thus far. While "Bossy" entered the top 10 in Finland, and also peaked within the top 20 in Australia, New Zealand, and Spain, it failed to chart or sell noticeably elsewhere.

It is believed that the track features a response to 50 Cent's 2005 single "Piggy Bank". In "Bossy", Kelis states "That's right, I brought all the boys to the yard/And that's right, I'm the one tattooed on his arm," in response to 50 Cent rapping, "Kelis said her milkshake brings all the boys to the yard/Then Nas went and tattooed the bitch on his arm" in his song. The lyric "I'm the first girl to scream on a track" refers to her debut single "Caught Out There", in which she "screamed" the chorus.

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The video for "Bossy", which was directed by Marc Klasfeld -who would work with Kelis on "Blindfold Me" and "Lil' Star" later that year-, sees Kelis in different scenarios and outfits, depicting an atmosphere from an alluring upper-class world; from a diamond, octopus-filled party to a red cabriolet drive out in the night. It premiered on BET on May, 2006.

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