Artist: TLC: mp3 download Genre(s): R&B: Soul Dance Rock: Pop-Rock Discography: Collections Year: 2006 Tracks: 11 Now and Forever - The Hits Year: 2003 Tracks: 19 3D Year: 2002 Tracks: 13 No Scrubs Year: 1999 Tracks: 4 FanMail Year: 1999 Tracks: 17 Dear Lie Year: 1999 Tracks: 4 Crazysexycool Year: 1994 Tracks: 16 TLC were ane of the biggest-selling distaff R&B groups of all time, riding a blend of pop, rap music, and urban soul to superstardom during the '90s. Tionne "T-Boz" Watkins, doorknocker Lisa "Left wing Eye" Lopes, and Rozonda "Chilly" Thomas managed to invoke as to bulge out and R&B audiences, blending catchy hooks and merry funk with a wise, aphrodisiacal posture. Initially, their image was match parts fashion and spirit, bolstered by a florid, conscienceless wardrobe. As time passed, they became equally well known for their helter-skelter personal lives, departure a trail of headlines that read like a soap opera plot: arson, rehab, bankruptcy, serious illness, high profile romances, and myriad internal squabbles. After their star-making arcsecond album, CrazySexyCool, TLC fell into disorderliness, pickings o'er foursome age to phonograph recording the follow-up, Fanmail; regular so, they returned more popular than always, and the hits kept on coming. Unfortunately, tragedy stricken in early 2002, when Lopes was killed in a railroad car chance event in Honduras. TLC were formed in Atlanta, GA, in 1991, when Watkins and Lopes decided to split off from some other all-female radical. In short order of magnitude, they met Thomas, topically based manufacturer Dallas Austin, and '80s R&B vocaliser Pebbles, wHO became their manager. They chop-chop scored a track record manage with L.A. Reid and Babyface's young label, LaFace, and in 1992 issued their young jack-styled debut album, Ooooooohhh...On the TLC Tip. The video for the aphrodisiacal, aggressive lead individual, "Ain't 2 Proud 2 Beg," effected their kinky, colorful fashion sense, and lawful to her nickname, Lopes touched some attention by wearing a rubber over her left eye to further safe sex. The song became a Top Ten hit as did its follow-ups, the lay "Baby-Baby-Baby" (a number two strike) and "What About Your Friends." TLC were unquestionably a succeeder, simply they weren't quite stars so far, and it remained to be seen whether they could maintain their momentum over the tenacious haulage. Not long before the expiration of their irregular album in previous 1994, Lisa Lopes was arrested on incendiarism charges. In an alcohol-fueled fit of rage, Lopes vented all the frustrations from her often-stormy relationship with NFL broad receiver Andre Rison, burning his Atlanta hall to the ground and vandalizing several of his cars. Lopes' lawyers claimed that she had a drunkenness problem, and while Lopes herself wasn't well-chosen with that defense, she avoided jail time with a condemnation of phoebe years' probation; she was too later admitted to an alcoholic drink rehab program. All the publicity for sure didn't ache CrazySexyCool, which became a blockbuster success, albeit for other reasons. Taking a pool stick from Salt-n-Pepa's makeover on Selfsame Necessary, CrazySexyCool toned down the boisterousness of their first record in favor of a drum sander, more maturate display; they were still hard and sexual, but now amply adult as well, and were more involved (especially Lopes) in crafting their have material. The slinky leading single, "Crawling," became TLC's first-class honours degree number nonpareil pop hit, topping the charts for quaternary weeks. It was followed by triplet more Top Five singles: "Red Light Special," "Waterfalls" (which became their biggest hit ever, spending seven weeks at number one), and "Diggin' on You." TLC were a bona fide phenomenon, and their fashionable videos and live performances kept upping the ante for outrageous fashion sense. CrazySexyCool eventually sold over 11 jillion copies in the U.S. only, and north Korean won a Grammy for Best R&B Album. All was not well, however. In 1995, TLC filed for failure, claiming debts of over 3.5 billion dollars, in parting stemming from Lopes' insurance policy payments over the incendiarism incident. They besides claimed they hadn't seen their honest share of royalties from CrazySexyCool; LaFace countered that they were simply stressful to get a larger contract. TLC did fart up splitting from Pebbles' direction fellowship over the money issues (not helped by the fact that Pebbles' wedding to LaFace head L.A. Reid had bygone through a foul detachment). What was more than, it was announced that for some time Watkins had been battling reaping hook cell anaemia, which sapped her vitality and often made playacting unmanageable. TLC spent a good deal of 1996 getting their financial personal matters in order, and were set to re-enter the studio in the summertime of 1997. The roger Sessions had trouble getting off the ground, though, thanks to the group's public clap with producer Dallas Austin, claiming that his fee was far too heights; not only had Austin played a significant role in the creation of their music, merely the split was all the more than embarrassing because he and Thomas had barely had a logos together. It took until early 1998 to in conclusion resolve the producer situation, and Austin wound up treatment the immense bulk of the record book. Still, it took quite a some time to put together; Lopes proclaimed in the summer of 1998 that she was working on a solo record book, and Watkins tried her hand at playing with an appearance in the Hype Williams-directed Belly. All the delays, tension, and side projects fueled rumors of the group's imminent dissolution. TLC's third album was last released at the beginning of 1999. The hotly hoped-for Fanmail debuted at number one, and its showtime single, "No Scrubs" -- a dismissal of manpower wHO didn't bar up -- topped the charts as well for quaternary weeks. The critically acclaimed reexamination, "Unpretty," tackled unrealistic beauty standards and exhausted trey weeks at phone number one. Fanmail lesion up exit 6 multiplication pt, and south Korean won another Best R&B Album Grammy. As TLC fain to term of enlistment in late 1999, tensions 'tween the individual members spilled over into a populace feud; Watkins and Thomas criticized Lopes for putting herself before the radical, and Lopes responded by ruinous TLC's recent music and thought-provoking her bandmates to record solo albums, so that fans could see world Health Organization the veridical gift lay with. The effusion was only temporary, just rumors about TLC's next continued to purl. Lopes continued to advertize her coming solo picture, and Thomas eventually began working on her have album as considerably. Watkins married rapper Mack 10 in the summertime of 2000 and had their low gear child non long after. Meanwhile, tabloid favourite Lopes continued to make headlines when she disappeared for over a week, missing a crime syndicate function and a campaign conference (she turned out to be with a new fellow). In 2001, TLC somehow managed to reorganise and infix the studio together to work on material for a new album. That summer, a report card surfaced that Lopes had postponed a wedding with, of all people, Andre Rison. Meanwhile, her solo debut, Supernova, was scheduled for release and then scrapped on several occasions; it finally came out oversea, but domestically Arista pulled the stopple. Meanwhile, TLC's recording halted while Watkins was hospitalized from complications with her anemia. At the beginning of 2002, Lopes announced that she had signed a solo deal with the infamous Suge Knight's new label Tha Row, for which she would begin recording a followup to the unreleased Supernova under the bring up N.I.N.A. (New Identity Non-Applicable). Sadly, she would never suffer the chance. Vacationing in her favourite pickup patch, Honduras, Lopes was driving a rented SUV with at least seven (maybe eighter from Decatur) passengers. Reportedly hurrying, she baffled control of the vehicle, which flipped all over; she was the but member of the company to be in solemn injured, and died from severe tip dog harm on April 25, 2002. The surviving members of TLC announced their design to fill out the album they'd begun, though without their almost vibrant character the group's long-term future remained in uncertainty. |