The PMS Playlist: 15 Best Songs Where Women Go In On Men

Fellas, when you hear your lady playing these, it's time to be afraid—or better yet, just be gone.

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Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Sure, you’ve heard the quote, but what does it mean to you? Just ask any man who’s ever crossed us—and you’ll soon find out that things didn’t turn out too well for him. Or, to quote Jesus, “It would be better if a millstone was tied around your neck.”

When women love, they generally love hard. But when a man takes that woman’s love for granted, there's not enough chocolates and flowers in the world to make up for the lying and the cheating. At times like those, the best you can hope for is to wind up as the catalyst for another hateful hit record.

Last week, Bridget Kelly dropped a mixtape stacked with jams that channeled the kind of anger that every girl can understand. We were feeling BK so much that we took a little trip down memory lane to rewind some of our favorite furious females. Click through while they let it all out...

Written by Linda Hobbs (@linnyloveslin)

15. Bridget Kelly “White Lies” (2011)

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Album: Every Girl

Best line: “I heard noises coming from upstairs when I walked into my house / No one was sposta be there / Strictly for protection purposes was when I pulled my gun out...”

Complex says: Co-written by Ne-Yo and Shanell, this twisted tale of betrayal and revenge unfolds like a soap opera or an R.Kelly video. BK stands accused of murdering her man and some trifling tramp, but she wants the judge to understand that the fact that she caught him cheating had nothing to do with why she reloaded her gun twice. Hmmm... Who’s telling white lies now?

14. Mya “If You Died I Wouldn't Cry” (1998)

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Album: Mya

Best line: “I hope you never come this way again / You used to be my lover and my friend / So please don’t take offense when I say what I have to say / If you died I wouldn’t cry, cause you never loved me anyway.”

Complex says: According to this song, revenge is a dish that’s best served cold. Though this joint starts out sounding nice and romantic, it doesn’t take long before the bitterness starts to flow. Mya’s describing a dude who hurt her so bad that even death would be too good for him.

13. Fantasia “I’m Doin’ Me” (2010)

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Album: Back to Me

Best line: “Won’t spend another minute wasting my time / On a man that only tells me lies…”

Complex says: We just have two words: Antwaun… Cook. The married father of two met Fantasia when she stopped by his North Carolina cell phone store. He reportedly told her he was separated and the two carried on an affair for the better part of a year—complete with a sex tape.

He filed for divorce from his wife right around the same time Fantasia was hospitalized for an overdose of pills. Cook’s ex-wife also filed suit against Fantasia for being a home wrecker. “Music saved me,” Fantasia said in an interview, but really, this song says it all.

12. Keri Hilson “Intuition” (2009)

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Album: In A Perfect World

Best line: “Dudes out here think they slick / Got a lot of girls on they da da da da dick (and they can’t say “no”) / Steady telling me, ‘They ain’t you’ / imma wait to see what you gon’ do.”

Complex says: Even pretty girls can get their hearts broken, and Keri made this song for every woman who’s had the wool pulled over her eyes by a smooth operator. Maybe that’s why God gave us powers of discernment that are second to none—the deception never goes but so far.

Keri’s already in the studio working on her third album, and it’s supposed to have even more broken-heart bangers. “There’s a specific few people who ain’t gon’ like to listen to this album,” she said recently. We can hardly wait.

11. Monica “So Gone” (2003)

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10. Keyshia Cole “I Should Have Cheated” (2006)

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9. Beyoncé “Resentment” (2006)

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Album: B’Day

Best line: “I’ll always remember feeling / Like I was no good / Like I couldn’t do it for you / Like your mistress could / And it’s all because you lied.”

Complex says: When it comes to songs about moving on, Bey is the R&B Oprah. From “Why Don't You Love Me,” to her most recent girls anthem “Best Thing I Never Had,” Mrs. Carter’s catalog is stacked with perfect jams for women dealing with seething anger.

But her magnum opus has to be this remake of a 2003 Victoria Beckham gem. (Is it something about having a famous husband?) Beyoncé sings about the scars left on a faithful woman’s heart so convincingly and passionately that it’s downright scary. When a man you trust starts lying about his double life, it ain’t nothin’ nice.

8. Mary J. Blige “Not Gon’ Cry” (1995)

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7. Jazmine Sullivan “Bust Your Windows” (2008)

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6. Marsha Ambrosius “Hope She Cheats On You (With A Basketball Player)” (2010)

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Album: Late Nights & Early Mornings

Best line: “I may sound bitter/I’m a little bitter/Just a little bitter/Because you were with her.”

Complex says: Some women may gracefully walk away after their man has blown it. But just because she didn’t throw your clothes on the lawn, don’t think that she’s just sitting up somewhere wishing you the best.

With this song Marsha goes into the brain of every woman who’s ever been replaced by another chick, and bluntly paints the pictures of payback that fill the female imagination.

5. Rihanna “Man Down” (2010)

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4. Beyoncé “Irreplaceable” (2006)

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3. Erykah Badu “Tyrone” (1997)

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2. Kelis “Caught Out There” (1999)

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1. Lauryn Hill “Ex-Factor” (1998)

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