The crucible of mega-stardom is for some the eye of the storm, and for others the storm itself. Some artists take deeper breaths in the rarefied air of celebrity and make the best work of their lives ...

XXL celebrates 50 years of hip-hop with this moment: Sept. 7, 1995: In November of 1994, TLC dropped their second album, CrazySexyCool, and it catapulted them to pop superstardom. The LP's third ...

Thu, September 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM UTC Along the way, we of course ask all the most important questions about the Greatest Pop Stars of 1995: What made CrazySexyCool such a great leap forward for an ...

No girl group has had as much impact on merging hip hop and R&B music as TLC. The group’s sophomore album CrazySexyCool is their most influential and successful record to date. It solidified them as a ...

Amidst the grunge and G-Funk that defined the decade, the ‘90s also bore witness to perhaps the greatest crop of girl groups found in R&B since mid-’60s Motown: En Vogue, SWV, Xscape, Jade and several ...

If MTV ever pulls the meta move of doling out awards to its own award show, the 1995 MTV Video Music Awards undoubtedly deserves to be nominated for Best VMAs Ever. No, there wasn’t a fight between ...

Not only did the all-girl trio of TLC enjoy a No. 1 hit with their iconic 1995 track “Waterfalls”, but they garnered a second one earlier that same year with the release of “Creep”. Indeed, TLC was ...

Who can listen to this song and not remember a time they stood with a group of friends singing it at the top of their lungs? TLC was one of the biggest groups around during the time of their MTV Movie ...

This Vintage Pop Stardom episode of the Greatest Pop Stars podcast looks at peak TLC, who had two No. 1s, owned the VMAs and sold more albums than any girl group ever had — while going broke. By ...