They thought they'd record it, but instead they ended up selling it to a bigger group, TLC. From there, Kandi, along with fellow songwriter Tamika Tiny Cottle, quickly put the song together. MADDEN: By this time, Kandi had already thought of the title of "No Scrubs." She'd written it down in a notebook. And so I started freestyling over the track, and I was just like, (singing) a scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly and is also known as a busta, always talking about what he wants and just sits on his fat a**. MADDEN: Kandi was riding around Atlanta with one of her girlfriends.īURRUSS: And we were talking trash about these two guys that we were dating. KANDI BURRUSS: No lyrics, no melody, just the music. She was listening to a piece of music in her car given to her by fellow songwriter Kevin She'kspere Briggs. SIDNEY MADDEN: In 1998, songwriter Kandi Burruss was living in Atlanta. Sidney Madden from NPR Music has this story from 2019.
It united women and condemned disrespectful dudes.ĮSTRIN: And all this week, to mark the July Fourth holiday, we've been revisiting some of the songs that have become different sorts of American anthems.
1 on Billboard's Hot 100 when it came out in 1999. DETROW: "No Scrubs" by TLC spent four straight weeks at No.
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