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T-Boz from TLC on Left Eye's Passing, Belly with Nas & DMX, Sickle Cell & More

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🗓️ 29 January 2023

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Gina and Lush catch up with the legendary T-Boz from TLC, to talk about her career, some viral moments, motherhood, her health, and more! ----- 00:00 Intro 0:05 Lush says he was in love with all 3 TLC and Gina always wanted to be T-Boz's character in Belly 2:04 T-Boz breaks down the origins of TLC and how the group was formed 3:10 T-Boz on how she feels to be part of such a legendary, influential era, and the highest-selling girl group 4:40 T-Boz on why there are not so many R&B girl groups anymore 6:13 T-Boz speaks on how artists' development, from a label perspective, is a lost art 7:10 T-Boz talks TLC's first album and teetering the line between hip-hop and R&B 8:49 Gina says that "No Scrubs" was the first "anti-broke n** song" and T-Boz on if they were actually living those lyrics 10:20 T-Boz reacts to the new era of plastic surgery and BBL culture 13:20 T-Boz speaks on if there is a prerequisite for R&B artists to write their own music and how important it was for her to do so 16:10 T-Boz talks being diagnosed with sickle cell disease at 7 years old, being told she wouldn't live past 30 20:22 T-Boz on if any new information on sickle cell disease has helped her in terms of treatment and her words of advice to anyone who's going through it 22:30 T-Boz says to keep looking for a doctor until you find one that really cares about you as a person and speaks on her daughter having lupus disease 26:25 T-Boz on the inspiration for her to enter the holistic business and start TLC CBD 29:55 T-Boz breaks down the creation of TLC's iconic videos and the huge difference in music video budgets from then to now 35:10 T-Boz reacts to the "No Scrubs" rebuttal "No Pigeons" and if TLC is open to doing a Verzuz battle 37:35 T-Boz talks about producing the movie "ATL", how the movie was loosely based on her life, and if "ATL 2" is on the way 39:00 T-Boz explains how she got her role in the movie "Belly" and what it was like working with Nas and DMX 41:00 T-Boz on her experience starring in "House Party 3" and how a lot of the lines were improv 42:54 T-Boz talks performing on the Nickelodeon show "All That" and creating the theme song for the show 44:01 T-Boz speaks on what it was like being in a super high profile relationship with rapper Mack 10 48:17 T-Boz on wishing she handled her health and took care of her body better in the past 49:40 T-Boz on how the chemistry in TLC came about and how they maintained it throughout their careers 51:20 T-Boz on how she and Chilli kept performing and the creation of music after the loss of Left Eye + Doing the video for "Girl Talk" in the midst of mourning their group member 57:23 T-Boz talks wanting to stay healthy in 2023 and the opening up her new restaurant "Good *ss Burger" 59:44 T-Boz on how her health journey inspired her to lean into a more holistic direction in her life 1:01:50 T-Boz on new music she's releasing in 2023 and releasing a new cookbook 1:05:30 T-Boz speaks on the new TLC Broadway Musical that's coming soon 1:06:05 T-Boz on how she feels about the TLC biopic and if anything was left out 1:08:10 T-Boz on if the music in Atlanta has influenced the streets and reacts to the passing of Takeoff 1:11:51 T-Boz speaks on the lack of conscious music in today's era Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

What is going on? What's happening? You're playing pot in the lush one, Gene of

0:04.8

Use, live and direct on the coolest podcast in the world, no jumper and you know we don't usually

0:12.4

do zoom interviews. But we make exceptions for certain esteemed individuals and legends in the

0:20.4

game of a very high caliber. So let's give it warm welcome to Tion, T-Bas, Watkins, come on!

0:32.5

Yeah, thank you, thank you so much. The T and TLC. Yes, the highest selling grow group of

0:40.8

all time. Absolutely. So just a little bit of history. Who on the TLC tip came out? I think I was in

0:51.4

like fourth grade and for the next several years. It was basically a thing of which member of TLC

1:01.6

are you in love with? And I'm just going to go on record and say it was all three all at different times.

1:08.0

For me, it depends on which video it is. Sometimes it's left, sometimes it's chilly and then sometimes

1:15.2

I can't even front it's you. So this is different. I'm sure Gina is an A1 day one as well.

1:23.2

Yeah, absolutely. As a child, I wanted to be, you know, everybody was talking about Keisha on

1:28.8

belly. Right. Now, I want to be T-Bas character. 1000% an iconic musician, actress, entrepreneur,

1:40.9

all the above. Let's go back to the very beginning because like I said, we're really trying to bridge

1:45.7

the gap in generations and let some of these youngins know us up with the legends that, you know,

1:52.0

paved the way for what everyone's doing today, as well as, you know, bring some of these people

1:59.5

that are our age over to this platform as well, you know, and so you, what's the origins of TLC?

2:09.6

You said, what's the origins, what you mean? Like, how did the group form?

2:14.5

Oh, oh my God. The group started with me and left eye actually. I was working at a hair salon

2:24.5

and basically was, was in a group and I had just told my hair stylist that her, she was,

2:32.5

you know, doing pebbles here and I was like, they married LA, who works with baby sir. Let me just

2:38.2

highlight her until I was like, no, you need to tell pebbles to highlight me because we know I'm the jam. I was just

2:44.0

talking, you know, it sure, whatever child pebbles called me that night and I was like, oh, she really

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