14 on the Billboard's Hot R&B Singles, where it remained for 13 weeks, being her most successful song on that list to that date.

[5] According to Lyte in an Atlantic press release, the song is about "the stupid things people do when they're in love,"[6] describing situations like "I'm talkin like pickin your lover's nose/Cooking his food and washing his clothes/And if you thought that was goin too far/What about givin him the keys to your car?

"[8] The original version of the album contains an interpolation of Bill Withers's "The Same Love That Made Me Laugh" in his chorus.

Gil Griffin of The Washington Post highlighted the song in his album review for his way of approaching obsessive love.

[13] In hindsight, Damon Brown of RapReviews would criticize the song, commenting that "is too convoluted, especially when compared to Rakim’s “Mahogany” or even Ghostface Killah’s recent “Love Sessions.

Reminiscent of a piece that Aretha Franklin might have composed, an R&B soprano songstress emphasizes the word crazy in the refrain of the song.