Even when she actively beefed with her fellow TLC members Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins and Rozonda “Chilli” Thomas, the late Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was always the lifeblood and the lynchpin of their trio, so when Lopes was killed in a car accident nine years ago today, the group, after wrapping production on work-in-progress album, effectively ceased to exist.
Left Eye was always the most flamboyant of the three, brash and unembarrassed. From the Ooooooohhh…On the TLC Tip days, when, as the Philly-transplant in Atlanta, she rocked the b-girl look ten times harder than T-Boz or Chilli but somehow still sold it better, to the prosperity-gospel-with-a-spiritual-twist of her “No Scrubs” verse: “If you can’t spatially expand my horizons, then that leaves you in a class with scrubs, never rising,” and beyond, Left Eye was always fighting to be seen and heard.
