problematic

presenting difficulty; open to doubt or debate

Heard in 55 songs (683M+ combined views) — most famously in "Lose Control" by Teddy Swims.

Updated July 28, 2026

Songs Featuring “problematic

Teddy Swims - Lose Control

Time: 1:12

You make a mess of me

Problematic

Problem is I want your body like a fiend, like a bad habit

Teddy Swims - Lose Control

Cazzu - Brinca

Time: 0:42

Ey, Naturola, no plastic, ey

Nena mala problematic, ey

Trépate encima, gymnastic

Cazzu - Brinca

Joyner Lucas - Revenge

Time: 3:36

I do not get no sleep

I'm problematic and I gotta have it

Word to Ed OG, you don't know me

Joyner Lucas - Revenge

Chance the Rapper - Best Life

Time: 0:56

That's when they came for me on Twitter with the backlash

"#CardiBIsSoProblematic" is the hashtag

I can't believe they wanna see me lose that bad

Chance the Rapper - Best Life

Kehlani - Toxic

Time: 1:46

You a damn drug, you're toxic

Problematic (Yeah)

You know that dick always been problematic (Yeah)

Kehlani - Toxic

MattyBraps - Dramatic

Time: 0:00

I swear it's automatic

I'm kinda problematic

Could say that I'm an addict to pain

MattyBraps - Dramatic

Bo Burnham - Problematic

Time: 0:47

Isn't anybody gonna hold me accountable? Uh

I'm problematic

(He's a problem)

Bo Burnham - Problematic

Eminem - Evil

Time: 0:57

Slim say some shit you feel fucked up for laughin' at, yeah

And I'm phenomenal at it (what?), and that's problematic (what?)

But if y'all fanatics (huh?), maybe I'm your habit (yeah)

Eminem - Evil

Drake - Lose You

Time: 2:16

Winnin' is problematic

People like you more when you workin' towards somethin'

Drake - Lose You

Tyler, the Creator - I Am The Grinch

Time: 0:39

You're the Grinch, you're the Grinch (that's me)

You're so problematic, you're the Grinch (hello)

You're the Grinch, you're the Grinch (I'm guilty)

Tyler, the Creator - I Am The Grinch

Yelawolf - Everything I Love the Most

Time: 0:29

Why everything I love the most, is so wrong for me!

Yeah! Problematic, I'm so problematic

That I'm probably a problem addict

Yelawolf - Everything I Love the Most

Feid - Classy 101

Time: 0:30

te ves cara, bitchy, classy

En cuatro fantastic, más que problematic

tocándote, yo loca por entrar, sabe' lo que me gusta

Feid - Classy 101

BoyWithUke - Understand

Time: 0:36

I thought I stopped my psychopathic ways, I swear I did

I said I talked to people 'bout the problematic life I lived

They were my neighbors, razor blades and different flavored pills I hid

BoyWithUke - Understand

Tech N9ne - Love 2 Dislike Me

Time: 2:03

Cause I wanna be back when we had it well

All this static's problematic like grabbing a rabbits tail

And thats nightly, too much messing with my psyche

Tech N9ne - Love 2 Dislike Me

Ski Mask the Slump God - Fire Hazard

Time: 0:25

Fire hazard, diesel leak, I might need a napkin

Problematic, we subtract 'em, turn 'em to a fraction (yuh, yuh, yuh, yuh)

We love static, we just like the TVs in the attic (yuh, yuh, mm-mm-mm-mm)

Ski Mask the Slump God - Fire Hazard

Cardi B - Heaven on My Mind

Time: 0:15

Woah-hoo

This love is problematic

Your love makes me an addict

Cardi B - Heaven on My Mind

Megan Moroney - Noah

Time: 2:07

It's more problematic than it is innocent and sweet

You're more like a secret I wish I didn't have to keep

Megan Moroney - Noah

femtanyl - BODY THE PISTOL

Time: 0:47

A-and then I shudder under the static

It's unbecoming, it's problematic

My intuition-tion, changes erratic

femtanyl - BODY THE PISTOL

Lil Wayne - Hold Up

Time: 0:35

Spit like 9's, 4 5th's, and 3 8 oh's

Niggas want problems, well I am problematic

It's back to pickin' cotton cause you niggas cotton candy

Lil Wayne - Hold Up

Syko - #BrooklynBloodPop!

Time: 0:15

You're a school shooter

A problematic desire

I'm just a gun with the hire

Syko - #BrooklynBloodPop!

Arcángel - MY LOVE

Time: 2:01

No hay como tú, y eso con nadie lo pienso discutir

Inigualable la bebé, mi problematic

My-my-my love, en esa relación ya no hay love

Arcángel - MY LOVE

Sueco - Funeral

Time: 0:14

Yeah, she got ass, but it's too much plastic

Left her in the past 'cause she way too problematic

Dick-suckin' lips, she could probably use some chapstick

Sueco - Funeral

Citizen Queen - Call Me Queen

Time: 0:49

Woo, not trying to be dramatic

The way you talking kind of problematic

Before you talk to me with your hands

Citizen Queen - Call Me Queen

Usher - Risk It All (From the Original Motion Picture "The Color Purple")

Time: 1:02

Baby, I would risk it all, yeah

Sometimes it's tragic, so problematic

People are cryin' for it, people are dyin' for it

Usher - Risk It All (From the Original Motion Picture "The Color Purple")

Macklemore - MANIAC

Time: 1:46

Too many red flags

I knew you were problematic cause all of your ex's are mad

Somehow I'm back in your arms

Macklemore - MANIAC

Russ - The Journey

Time: 3:03

'Cause the IRS is watching

Flossing could be problematic

You should chill, act like you've seen some money before

Russ - The Journey

Charli XCX - Mean girls

Time: 1:12

And you hate the fact she's New York City's darling

You say she's problematic and the way you say it, so fanatic

Think she already knows that you're obsessed

Charli XCX - Mean girls

Ty Dolla $ign - I Need Your Love

Time: 1:36

Dippin' through traffic, what you doin' to me is magic

If you ever took your love away, that would be problematic

Girl, you know I gotta have it, oh, I

Ty Dolla $ign - I Need Your Love

Ghost and Pals - The Things I Deserve

Time: 0:50

We've all been waiting for

My problematic waste of an existence tearing to shreds

Right before your eyes, share a universal smile

Ghost and Pals - The Things I Deserve

FINNEAS - The Kids Are All Dying

Time: 1:00

So shut up, the internet is mad

They say you're problematic and you better take it back

There's nothing you can do that people won't misunderstand

FINNEAS - The Kids Are All Dying

Hollywood Undead - Save Me

Time: 0:37

Ditched my heart just to kick the habit

People might think I'm problematic

Fuck it, I'm alone in a world of static

Hollywood Undead - Save Me

Parquet Courts - Violence

Time: 0:46

You protect no one by obscuring the mirror

That reflects our own problematic reality

Allow me to ponder the role I play

Parquet Courts - Violence

J Alvarez - Location

Time: 1:06

Que lo tienes todo, nunca te conformas casi

Nunca me pelea, no se pone problematic

Ambos sabemos que esto es

J Alvarez - Location

Jade - Natural at Disaster

Time: 1:22

(Ah) you're a natural at disaster

Wreaking havoc, everything you do is problematic (problematic)

Never getting better, when you're stuck in your ways forever (ways forever)

Jade - Natural at Disaster

PHOX - Kingfisher

Time: 0:45

of lost actuality, or seeing what's real

or dodging the problematic way you feel

of lost actuality or seeing what's real,

PHOX - Kingfisher

Alessia Cara - Drama Queen

Time: 0:27

Always on my toes

It's not romantic, it's problematic

You're not in love with me any more, oh-oh

Alessia Cara - Drama Queen

Little Simz - Speed

Time: 1:37

You could tell I'm really going at it

They know when I drop it's problematic

Keep it on the move, I'm never static

Little Simz - Speed

Michael Kiwanuka - Flowers

Time: 1:17

Flowers all, flowers all, flowers all, flowers all for you

She's problematic, nobody can't stand it

Been told she's a liability and not an asset

Michael Kiwanuka - Flowers

Chatter - PANIC

Time: 0:45

Lost within the madness, feeling fucking manic

Panic, panic, call us problematic

We know we'll be okay but

Chatter - PANIC

Jessie Ware - Automatic

Time: 0:50

'Cause he loves what he sees

No, he ain't ever problematic

Knows where he's supposed to be

Jessie Ware - Automatic

The Word Alive - The Fortune Teller

Time: 1:38

I'm buried deep in this dream we conceived.

Problematic, romantics, I'm lost you see.

It's a difference of opinion, we think we know.

The Word Alive - The Fortune Teller

Dominic Fike - FIND GOD

Time: 1:40

My boy got fully automatics, I'ma slide with him

But if he say some' problematic, would I side with him?

You think me holding you accountable is side-switching

Dominic Fike - FIND GOD

Miles Kane - Caroline

Time: 0:51

It's something that you need to know

It's problematic cosmological

Take my hand

Miles Kane - Caroline

Lauren Alaina - Goodbye Street

Time: 0:24

Looks like you took the right one when you left me

In your automatic, problematic Chevy

I can't believe that

Lauren Alaina - Goodbye Street

Jimmy Buffett - Overkill

Time: 0:42

Overkill, overkill

Such a megalo-modern problematic ill

Climb too fast and shove too hard

Jimmy Buffett - Overkill

Robert Glasper - Let Me In

Time: 0:28

Coming out the closet he no poltergeist

Definitely problematic

They say real n*ggas multiply

Robert Glasper - Let Me In

Beastie Boys - The Negotiation Limerick File

Time: 0:44

I'll go insane if it don't rain

Sucker MCs are problematic

I love it when you hit those switches

Beastie Boys - The Negotiation Limerick File

Kelela - Turn To Dust

Time: 0:18

Is it a consequence of time? Do I let go, do I grind?

Everything is problematic, I'm trying my best

I know what's inside, hot water under ice

Kelela - Turn To Dust

Dodie - Smart Girl

Time: 0:40

I've made no means to combat it

Problematic

Sad girl

Dodie - Smart Girl

Sponge - Got to Be a Bore

Time: 1:13

I hope my head will heal"

It's problematic and compelling

a corrupt disguise

Sponge - Got to Be a Bore

Lil Yachty - Westside

Time: 1:11

Let 'em have it

My big homie really problematic (yeah)

I'm tryna beat her back out (woo)

Lil Yachty - Westside

Busta Rhymes - Treasure & Gold

Time: 2:01

When yuh see mi again, seh dem a pull up

Everybody see dem sittin' wid their problematic (problematic)

Check the time 'pon your wrist watch

Busta Rhymes - Treasure & Gold

Denzel Curry - Walkin

Time: 0:35

The property grows in value, and rightfully so, I gotta have it

I see the way the people get treated, it's problematic

They ready to save themself for failure, it's systematic

Denzel Curry - Walkin

Noname - Montego Bae

Time: 1:53

'cause a bitch suckin dick in the new Adidas

And yes and yes, I'm problematic too

And yes and yes, I lick 'em up, oh yes I really do

Noname - Montego Bae

Elijah Woods - good guys

Time: 0:33

Ain't dramatic

Problematic

Baby girl best believe

Elijah Woods - good guys