Left Eye In “More Than A Woman” Coloring Book
Our beloved Left Eye appears in the "More Than A Woman: Shading Through The Women Of Hip Hop By Mike Coley" coloring book that was released last year at Urban Outfitters. The item is sold out online, but not in stores! Click HERE to head to their website and click the "In Stores" link to find it in a store near you! -CYBERTLC WORLD
The Story of Left Eye, Tangi, & Baby Jose
Old-time TLC fans remember the Left Eye track "No Tighter Wish," on the Kazaam soundtrack. The song talks about the day when Tangi lost her son, Jose, during a freak accident with the car they were in. Here's the news article which explains more. Be sure to listen to the beautiful song "No Tighter Wish" as well.
Baby Dies As Mother Leaps From TLC Member's Car
Jet Magazine - December 6, 1993
A 10-month-old boy died when he and his mother feel from a runaway car that had just been parked by singer-rap artist Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the hit recording group TLC.
The baby, Jose Manvanet, and his mother, Tangie Foreman, were passengers in the car driven by Ms. Lopes in Decatur, GA.
The singer had parked the car and left it just before the accident.
Ms. Foreman was still in the front passenger seat when she turned to attend to her sun in the rear. She accidentally knocked the car out of fear and it became rolling down a hill, police said.
When Ms. Foreman leaped out of the car with her son, they fell, police said. The baby died at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital -CYBERTLC WORLD
Baby Dies As Mother Leaps From TLC Member's Car
Jet Magazine - December 6, 1993
A 10-month-old boy died when he and his mother feel from a runaway car that had just been parked by singer-rap artist Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the hit recording group TLC.
The baby, Jose Manvanet, and his mother, Tangie Foreman, were passengers in the car driven by Ms. Lopes in Decatur, GA.
The singer had parked the car and left it just before the accident.
Ms. Foreman was still in the front passenger seat when she turned to attend to her sun in the rear. She accidentally knocked the car out of fear and it became rolling down a hill, police said.
When Ms. Foreman leaped out of the car with her son, they fell, police said. The baby died at Hughes Spalding Children's Hospital -CYBERTLC WORLD
Left Eye & The Story Of The Lost Boys
Below is a story about The Lost Boys of Sudan, and how Lisa came to meet with them, work with them, and forge a bond.
Neal and some buddies got the idea in the high-tech mania of the 1990's to create a new kind of magazine that would cover the booming hip-hop world. Instead of text and photos on the printed page, the magazine would come on a CD that consumers would buy and plug into their computer. They would see articles, photos, and ads just like in a traditional magazine, but could also watch video clips of live performances and hear interviews with the stars. While promoting his idea for an "enhanced CD," Neal made connections that led to Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the hip-hop group TLC, the most successful female trio in recording history. She was a sexy singer from Atlanta who was famous for her abilities on stage, for her habit of wearing eyeglasses with a condom in place of the left lens, and for burning down the mansion of her boyfriend, an Atlanta Falcons football star, after a quarrel one evening in 1994. After Neal showed Lisa a prototype of one of his CDs, she got him an audience with one of the titan producers in the hip-hop world. When it became obvious that, despite their interest and kind words, the producers were not biting, Lisa gave Neal ten thousand dollars to promote his hip-hop CD magazine. It went nowhere, but Neal and Lisa remained friends.
After he read a newspaper story about the Lost Boys and began spending so much time in clarkson, he took several of the refugees to the star's house in suburban Atlanta. One refugee who met Lisa, Abraham Diing Akoi, told her a friend in Nairobi had a poster of her on his wall. They called the friend from Lisa's house and, once he realized it really was Left Eye calling from Atlanta, the man broke into one of her songs. She sang into the phone right along with him.
Abraham said he told Lisa, "Soldiers killed our parents when we were very young," and said she "was wondering how people who were very, very small were able to survive." She seemed as taken as Neal with the refugees and even invited six Lost Boys into her studio. They recorded songs she planned to use as backup vocals on a CD she was producing for another female hip-hop group. Talking with the refugees, she said, made her wonder how she would have reacted to the trauma that visited them in childhood: "Once I start seeing the picture in my mind of what they describe happened, I can't help but imagine myself in that situation." A few months after meeting some Lost Boys in Atlanta, Lisa was killed in a car wreck while on vacation in Honduras. Her death upset Neal, but he did not wallow or boord. Just hours after hearing that his friend was dead, Neal was at work, sad but not distraught.
-CYBERTLC WORLD
Neal and some buddies got the idea in the high-tech mania of the 1990's to create a new kind of magazine that would cover the booming hip-hop world. Instead of text and photos on the printed page, the magazine would come on a CD that consumers would buy and plug into their computer. They would see articles, photos, and ads just like in a traditional magazine, but could also watch video clips of live performances and hear interviews with the stars. While promoting his idea for an "enhanced CD," Neal made connections that led to Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of the hip-hop group TLC, the most successful female trio in recording history. She was a sexy singer from Atlanta who was famous for her abilities on stage, for her habit of wearing eyeglasses with a condom in place of the left lens, and for burning down the mansion of her boyfriend, an Atlanta Falcons football star, after a quarrel one evening in 1994. After Neal showed Lisa a prototype of one of his CDs, she got him an audience with one of the titan producers in the hip-hop world. When it became obvious that, despite their interest and kind words, the producers were not biting, Lisa gave Neal ten thousand dollars to promote his hip-hop CD magazine. It went nowhere, but Neal and Lisa remained friends.
After he read a newspaper story about the Lost Boys and began spending so much time in clarkson, he took several of the refugees to the star's house in suburban Atlanta. One refugee who met Lisa, Abraham Diing Akoi, told her a friend in Nairobi had a poster of her on his wall. They called the friend from Lisa's house and, once he realized it really was Left Eye calling from Atlanta, the man broke into one of her songs. She sang into the phone right along with him.
Abraham said he told Lisa, "Soldiers killed our parents when we were very young," and said she "was wondering how people who were very, very small were able to survive." She seemed as taken as Neal with the refugees and even invited six Lost Boys into her studio. They recorded songs she planned to use as backup vocals on a CD she was producing for another female hip-hop group. Talking with the refugees, she said, made her wonder how she would have reacted to the trauma that visited them in childhood: "Once I start seeing the picture in my mind of what they describe happened, I can't help but imagine myself in that situation." A few months after meeting some Lost Boys in Atlanta, Lisa was killed in a car wreck while on vacation in Honduras. Her death upset Neal, but he did not wallow or boord. Just hours after hearing that his friend was dead, Neal was at work, sad but not distraught.
-CYBERTLC WORLD