Paroles de la chanson No Scrubs par
[Chilli & (Left Eye)]
A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly
He's also known as a busta (Busta, busta)
Always talkin' about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass
[ Chilli]
So no, I don't want your number (Uh, uh)
No, I don't want to give you mine and
No, I don't want to meet you nowhere (No, no)
No, I don't want none of your time and (Uh)
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
A scrub is a guy that thinks he's fly
He's also known as a busta (Busta, busta)
Always talkin' about what he wants
And just sits on his broke ass
[ Chilli]
So no, I don't want your number (Uh, uh)
No, I don't want to give you mine and
No, I don't want to meet you nowhere (No, no)
No, I don't want none of your time and (Uh)
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me (Whoo)
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[Chilli]
Well a scrub checkin' me, but his game is kinda weak
And I know that he cannot approach me
'Cause I'm looking like class and he's looking like trash
Can't get wit' a deadbeat ass (Yeah)
[ Chilli (Left Eye)]
So no, I don't want your number
No, I don't want to give you mine and (Said no)
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[Chilli]
Well a scrub checkin' me, but his game is kinda weak
And I know that he cannot approach me
'Cause I'm looking like class and he's looking like trash
Can't get wit' a deadbeat ass (Yeah)
[ Chilli (Left Eye)]
So no, I don't want your number
No, I don't want to give you mine and (Said no)
No, I don't want to meet you nowhere
No, I don't want none of your time and (Check it)
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me (Uh uh, come on)
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs (No scrubs)
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me (Uh uh, no love)
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[ Chilli]
No, I don't want none of your time and (Check it)
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me (Uh uh, come on)
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs (No scrubs)
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me (Uh uh, no love)
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[ Chilli]
If you don't have a car and you're walking
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
If you live at home with your momma
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
If you have a shorty that you don't show love
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
Wanna get me with no money
Oh no, I don't want no
No scrub, love
No scrub, love
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
If you live at home with your momma
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
If you have a shorty that you don't show love
Oh yes son, I'm talking to you
Wanna get me with no money
Oh no, I don't want no
No scrub, love
No scrub, love
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[Left Eye]
See, if you can't spatially expand my horizons
Then that leaves you in the class with scrubs, never rising
I don't find it surprising and if you don't have the G's
To please me and bounce me here to the coast of overseas
So, let me give you something to think about
Inundate your mind with intentions to turn you out
Can't forget the focus on the picture in front of me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
[Left Eye]
See, if you can't spatially expand my horizons
Then that leaves you in the class with scrubs, never rising
I don't find it surprising and if you don't have the G's
To please me and bounce me here to the coast of overseas
So, let me give you something to think about
Inundate your mind with intentions to turn you out
Can't forget the focus on the picture in front of me
You as clear as DVD on digital TV screens
Satisfy my appetite with something spectacular
Check your vernacular, and then I get back to ya
With diamond-like precision, insatiable is what I envision
Can't detect acquisition from your friend's Expedition
Mr. Big Willy, if you really wanna know
Ask Chilli, could I be a silly ho?
Not really, T-Boz and all my señoritas
Are steppin' on your FILA's, but you don't hear me, though
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Satisfy my appetite with something spectacular
Check your vernacular, and then I get back to ya
With diamond-like precision, insatiable is what I envision
Can't detect acquisition from your friend's Expedition
Mr. Big Willy, if you really wanna know
Ask Chilli, could I be a silly ho?
Not really, T-Boz and all my señoritas
Are steppin' on your FILA's, but you don't hear me, though
[Chilli, T-Boz]
No, I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
I don't want no scrubs
A scrub is a guy that can't get no love from me
Hangin' out the passenger side of his best friend's ride
Trying to holla at me
Que racontent les paroles de la chanson No Scrubs de TLC ?
Accroché à la portière
Il est là, sur le bord de la vitre baissée, bras pendant dans le vide, essayant d'accrocher un regard. Ce n'est même pas sa voiture — c'est celle de son pote. Cette image, TLC l'a immortalisée en une ligne, et elle dit tout. Le scrub, c'est lui. Ce type qui confond confiance en soi et arrogance à crédit, qui parle fort de ce qu'il veut sans jamais avoir grand-chose à offrir. En 1999, quand « No Scrubs » déferle sur les radios, ce portrait résonne immédiatement. Pas parce qu'il est méchant, mais parce qu'il est terriblement reconnaissable.
Trois voix, un seul message
Ce qui rend le morceau si efficace, c'est la façon dont TLC distribue les rôles. Chilli et T-Boz portent le refrain avec une fluidité presque désinvolte, comme si rejeter un scrub n'était qu'une affaire banale du quotidien — et c'est exactement l'effet recherché. Le pont de Chilli, lui, bascule vers quelque chose de plus direct, presque taquin : elle pointe du doigt, « oh yes son, I'm talking to you », et l'on sent presque le sourire en coin. Puis arrive Left Eye, et le registre change du tout au tout. Son rap est dense, nerveux, presque philosophique — elle parle d'horizons à élargir, de précision « diamond-like », d'une relation qui devrait élever plutôt qu'alourdir. C'est la même idée, mais portée à une autre température.
Une fierté qui ne s'excuse pas
Ce qui frappe à l'écoute, c'est l'absence totale d'amertume dans le ton. TLC ne pleure pas sur le scrub, ne l'insulte pas vraiment non plus. Le groupe affirme une valeur propre — « I'm looking like class and he's looking like trash » — sans avoir besoin de justifier cette estime de soi. En pleine ère R&B où les femmes étaient souvent cantonnées à des rôles de victimes ou de séductrices, ce refus tranquille et répété avait quelque chose de révolutionnaire. Aujourd'hui encore, la chanson circule comme un hymne, parce que la question qu'elle pose reste entière : qu'est-ce qu'on est prêt à accepter, et surtout, qu'est-ce qu'on mérite vraiment ?
Il est là, sur le bord de la vitre baissée, bras pendant dans le vide, essayant d'accrocher un regard. Ce n'est même pas sa voiture — c'est celle de son pote. Cette image, TLC l'a immortalisée en une ligne, et elle dit tout. Le scrub, c'est lui. Ce type qui confond confiance en soi et arrogance à crédit, qui parle fort de ce qu'il veut sans jamais avoir grand-chose à offrir. En 1999, quand « No Scrubs » déferle sur les radios, ce portrait résonne immédiatement. Pas parce qu'il est méchant, mais parce qu'il est terriblement reconnaissable.
Trois voix, un seul message
Ce qui rend le morceau si efficace, c'est la façon dont TLC distribue les rôles. Chilli et T-Boz portent le refrain avec une fluidité presque désinvolte, comme si rejeter un scrub n'était qu'une affaire banale du quotidien — et c'est exactement l'effet recherché. Le pont de Chilli, lui, bascule vers quelque chose de plus direct, presque taquin : elle pointe du doigt, « oh yes son, I'm talking to you », et l'on sent presque le sourire en coin. Puis arrive Left Eye, et le registre change du tout au tout. Son rap est dense, nerveux, presque philosophique — elle parle d'horizons à élargir, de précision « diamond-like », d'une relation qui devrait élever plutôt qu'alourdir. C'est la même idée, mais portée à une autre température.
Une fierté qui ne s'excuse pas
Ce qui frappe à l'écoute, c'est l'absence totale d'amertume dans le ton. TLC ne pleure pas sur le scrub, ne l'insulte pas vraiment non plus. Le groupe affirme une valeur propre — « I'm looking like class and he's looking like trash » — sans avoir besoin de justifier cette estime de soi. En pleine ère R&B où les femmes étaient souvent cantonnées à des rôles de victimes ou de séductrices, ce refus tranquille et répété avait quelque chose de révolutionnaire. Aujourd'hui encore, la chanson circule comme un hymne, parce que la question qu'elle pose reste entière : qu'est-ce qu'on est prêt à accepter, et surtout, qu'est-ce qu'on mérite vraiment ?