T-Boz:
“‘Creep,’ unfortunately, was one of my true stories,” T-Boz says with a laugh. “You’re with a guy and he’s not showing you attention, so another guy comes along and you’re like, ‘Hey, if you were where you were supposed to be, he couldn’t be showing me attention right now!’ I was in the middle of this drama, because the other guy was [my boyfriend’s] friend, and my boyfriend was just not getting it together.” This song was inspired by the drama she went through with Dalvin from Jodeci.

Left Eye says in an interview that ended up on her documentary Last Days of Left Eye:

I was totally 100% against Creep… for the first two albums, I was against the first single and I was outvoted both times and both of the singles blew up. Creep, I was totally against that song because I wasn’t down with cheatin' on yo man, ya know for me it’s- be faithful… I just didn’t know, ya know, “Is this the kinda message we should be sending out to people?”… If a girl is gonna catch his man cheating, this was my thing, instead of telling her to cheat back, why don’t we tell her to just leave?! Why do the words have to say that… If some people can creep and in their minds, they can feel better by going out there doing the same thing, fine, I’m just not one of those people"