No Scrubs

"**No Scrubs**" is a Grammy Award-winning song. It was recorded by American contemporary R&B girl group TLC. It was for their album, _FanMail_. It was released on February 2, 1999 as the lead single. "No Scrubs" became TLC's third number-one single and eighth top-ten single on the US _Billboard_ Hot 100. It also earned them their second Grammy nomination for Record of the Year. It was certified gold in the US for sales of over 500,000 copies. It was the second-best performing song of 1999 in the US, behind Cher's "Believe".

English singer-songwriter Ed Sheeran credited the writers of "No Scrubs" when he used a sample of the song in his 2017 single, "Shape of You".

## Track listings

**US CD and cassette single**

**US 12-inch single**

**International maxi single**

**European 12-inch single**

**UK CD1**

**UK CD2**

**French CD single**

## Credits and personnel

Credits adapted from the back cover of "No Scrubs".

**Production**
- Produced by Kevin "Shekspere" Briggs for Shekspere Productions, Inc. and D.A.R.P. Inc.
- Recorded by Carlton Lynn at D.A.R.P. Studios, Atlanta, Georgia
- Assisted by Ty Hudson
- Mixed by Leslie Braithwaite at D.A.R.P. Studios
- Assisted by Vernon J. Mungo
- Background vocals by Rozonda "Chilli" Thomas, Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, Debra Killings, Kandi Burruss and Tameka "Tiny" Cottle
- MIDI and sound design by Shekspere for Shekspere Productions, Inc.
- Mastered by Herb Powers at Powers House of Sound, New York

**Executive producers**
- Antonio M. Reid
- Kenneth B. Edmonds
- Dallas Austin
- TLC

**Artwork**
- Art director – Darrick "O.L." Warfield
- Creative coordinator – Cherie O'Brien
- Photography – Seb Janiak

### Weekly charts

|scope="col"|Chart (1999)|scope="col"|Peak position|
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|2||||
|4||||
|11||||
|7||||
|1||||

### Year-end charts

|scope="col"|Chart (1999)|scope="col"|Position|
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|12||||
|32||||
|16||||
|5||||
|1||||
|16||||
|21||||
|27||||
|16||||
|19||||
|8||||
|9||||
|9||||
|60||||
|23||||
|16||||
|10||||
|3||||
|2||||
|4||||
|6||||
|1||||

### Decade-end charts

|scope="col"|Chart (1990–1999)|scope="col"|Position|
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|33||||

## Release history

|scope="col"|Region|scope="col"|Date|scope="col"|Format(s)|scope="col"|Label|scope="col"||
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|February 2, 1999|Rhythmic contemporary radio|rowspan="4"||style="text-align:center;"||||||
|February 8, 1999|Urban contemporary radio|style="text-align:center;"||||||||
|March 22, 1999|rowspan="2"||style="text-align:center;"|||||||
|March 23, 1999|style="text-align:center;"|||||||||
|March 25, 1999|CD single|LaFace|style="text-align:center;"|||||||

## Infobox (song)

- **name**: No Scrubs
- **border**: yes
- **alt**: The TLC members are posing in metallic skin in front of a blue and yellow background.
- **type**: single
- **artist**: TLC (group), TLC
- **album**: FanMail
- **b-side**: Silly Ho
- **studio**: D.A.R.P. (Atlanta, Georgia)
- **genre**: * Contemporary R&B, R&B
* Pop rap, hip-pop
- **length**: *  (album version)
*  (Left Eye rap remix)
- **label**: * LaFace Records, LaFace
* Arista Records, Arista
- **writer**: * Kevin "She'kspere" Briggs
* Kandi Burruss
* Tameka Cottle, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle
* Lisa Lopes
- **producer**: She'kspere
- **prev title**: Diggin' on You
- **prev year**: 1995
- **next title**: Unpretty
- **next year**: 1999