No Pigeons

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"No Pigeons" is a song by Sporty Thievz, released both in the form of a single and as the closer of their 1998 album release Street Cinema. It was a rebuttal to TLC's hit single "No Scrubs" and received much radio play at the time of its release. It peaked at #12 on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100, at about the same time the TLC single was enjoying a successful chart run. The music video also features female rapper Eve

[edit] Song Information

"No Pigeons" was written and composed shortly after the widespread international success of TLC's song "No Scrubs," a song that discusses the unwillingness of women to engage in a relationship with men who are unemployed, grimy, unsophisticated, or poorly-mannered. The Sporty Thievz song discusses the dilemma that "No Scrubs" alluded, to, but rather than name women of the quality of "scrubs," they were denoted as "pigeons." Throughout the course of the song, the artists on the track make overt and references to unsightly, substandard women, accusing them of wearing "fake hair" (read: weaves), having "more than one baby father," and "stripping all week to go clubbing."

The entire song is based on a slightly faster beat of the original "No Scrubs" with much added bass.

[edit] Charts

Chart (1999)	Peak position
U.S. Billboard Hot 100^[1]	12
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs^[2]	5
U.S. Billboard Hot Rap Singles^[3]	1
U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles Sales^[4]	1
Canadian Digital Sales^[5]	3