[oHeLL]

A condom over her left eye, and a voice that could cut through leather, Lisa Lopes and her R&B trio TLC blew up the hip-hop scene in 1992. Their debut album "Oooh. . . on the TLC Tip" went platinum. She immediately acquired a reputation in the industry as a bad girl with a nasty temper. Most people remember her as the girl who burned down football player Andre Rison's mansion back in 1994. (After a particularly nasty fight, she attempted to set fire to a pair of his sneakers in a bathtub, and subsequently torched the place to the ground. (ATTA girl!) She was sentenced to 5 years probation and therapy at a halfway house, but was never able to shake that incident from her already rambunctious reputation. (She was pretty much labeled a psycho after that.)

Nonetheless, the publicity did nothing to hinder the success of their second album "CrazySexyCool", which sold over four million copies and established them as one of the top-selling female groups of all time.

Shortly thereafter, she publicly released disparaging statements against the other two members of her trio, and ripples were created throughout the group. (Obviously) The group declared bankruptcy in 1995, citing poor management. Funny how that works.

Her problems with alcohol began to surface, and (guess what) she blamed it on her abusive Army father, from whom she broke with when she was 17, leaving her abusive home with only $750 and a piano to pursue her music career.

In the late 90s, after an extremely successful and turbulent career ,TLC released another multiplatinum album "Fanmail". Lisa apparently began getting her life on track and her temper under control. She found a new peace and tranquility with holistic and spiritual practices and became involved in helping people in poverty and victims of Hurricane Mitch. Lisa began spending a lot of time overseas, helping children and doing charities, etc. She adopted a little girl in 2001.

Lisa had just released her first solo album "Supernova", (which was met with lukewarm reviews and subsequently shelved) when she met her untimely demise while off in Honduras. On 26 April, (1 month short of her 31st birthday, and oddly enough, ON the birthday of her band member T-Boz), shortly before 6pm outside La Ceiba, she was killed instantly in a head-on collision at a treacherous two-lane country road. Lisa was the driver, and the only fatality of eight people in the minivan. She was apparently not licensed to drive abroad. Her body was flown back to the states and she is buried in Atlanta.

She was buried in a white casket that bore an engraving of a rap she recited on TLC's No 1 song "Waterfalls". It reads "Dreams are hopeless aspirations, in hopes of coming true, believe in yourself, the rest is up to me and you."

For days before the wreck, she talked repeatedly on feeling like a spirit is chasing her, preparing to take her away. A couple days after that started, a little boy darted in front of the car she was riding in. The car struck and killed the boy. After paying for the medical expenses and funeral costs, she says she feels that spirit accidentally killed the boy instead of her.

[Faline]

Was posted here a long time ago but the thread lost the images in the great DR crash lol

[Jere]

she was a hottie
good post

[oHeLL]

Added the video of the accident

[NEVERBACKZ]

Originally Posted by Kelly ↗

Was posted here a long time ago but the thread lost the images in the great DR crash lol

Ah the Great DR crash of `11.

[Warnebald]

Wow, there was a "Great" DR crash? As opposed to a Shitty DR crash?

[rmosqued]

Shit, how fast was she driving? Notice how fast the car is moving after the beginning of the clip, with respect to the trees. Looks like she was driving at least 100mph.

[FavaBeans]

Poor chickiepoo

[Darkest Angel]

I dnk she even died so I now shed a belated tear...I really liked the waterfall song

[Rusty666]