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T-Boz & Chilli | A Love Gone Unnoticed #01
Welcome To The T-Boz & Chilli Shipper Thread #01  [Shippers] 80s90sIsTheBest Blncd Stnr Caramel_Blaque Libra Goddess muffin.205 Glo Girl Nettie Awesumgurl3 |B I O S| ♥ T-Boz ♥ Tionne Tenese Watkins was born on April 26, 1970 in Des Moines, Iowa. She is also known as "T-Boz" in the R&B/Hip-Hop group, TLC. Born to parents of both African American and Native American descent. As a child she was diagnosed with sickle cell anemia (1 in 12 people of African American descent have the disease). She is the founder of the group TLC and is usually the lead singer. She often shares lead vocals with Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas who also sings lead on some songs performed by the group. Since childhood, she has been in and out of the hospital, due to her sickle cell disease. At the age of nine, her family moved to Atlanta, Georgia. Tionne's mother and father (divorced when she was 3) were also musicians/singers and sang in a group together. Tionne knew from early childhood that she wanted to one day become a performer too. As a teenager she was a hair model, and eventually became a manicurist and shampoo girl at a popular Atlanta hair salon. In her free time she pursued her passion "dancing" at the local legendary skating rink Jellybeans. It was through a stylist/friend at this salon that she met Perri "Pebbles" Reid and was discovered in 1991 along with Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes and Crystal Jones. The trio's original name was 2nd Nature (Crystal's group), but was renamed TLC by Reid. Crystal Jones was quickly replaced however by Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas and the group began recording almost immediately. The first album "Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip" was released in February of 1992 and by 1996 the album was certified quadruple-platinum. It was during the first album's tour with MC Hammer that Tionne's sickle cell condition was revealed (she'd kept it secret). The rigorous tour schedule had taken a physical toll and she was hospitalized for 2 weeks. Her bandmates stayed by her side until her release and decided to lessen the tour schedule to allow Tionne enough days of rest. In 1996, she eventually went public with her disease. CrazySexyCool was released in 1994 and had two "Billboard Hot 100" number one singles. Tionne gained a higher profile as her distinctive voice fueled many of the album's smooth and seductive tracks. The album was certified Diamond (first girl group in history to receive this) and earned them 2 Grammy's. Despite their incredible global success as the number 1 girl group at the time, the members of TLC were forced to file for bankruptcy due to poor contracts signed at the start of their careers. Eventually the group signed a new contract with LaFace/Arista and went back into the studio. FanMail was released in 1999 after a long hiatus that included several dramas affecting the group individually and as whole. Amazingly, the group continued their upward trajectory of success reaching new heights. FanMail debuted as the #1 album and went 6x Platinum, receiving 8 Grammy nominations and winning 3. Tionne married rapper Mack 10 in August 2000, and share a daughter together, Chase Anela Rolison, born on October 20, 2000. 3D was released in 2002 but the production was interrupted by the death of group member Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes. Lopes' death traumatized her groupmates, also close friends, who were compelled by contract to complete the album in spite of her death. One of Tionne's longest hospital stays was for four months in 2002. Lopes had visited her before her fateful trip to Honduras. Despite some internal strife the strength of the group was their sorority, chemistry and their insistence on keeping the group intact even if solo efforts were pursued separately. In June 2004, T-Boz filed for divorce and requested a restraining order against Mack 10. In 2005, Watkins and a partner opened a children's boutique called Chase's Closet (named after her daughter). They closed down in 2008 however while Tionne was still recovering/rehabilitating from her brain tumor surgery. Chase's Closet was an A-list boutique and is still named one of the best children's stores today. In 2006 she was diagnosed with a potentially deadly brain tumor which also affected her sight, balance, hearing and facial movement. Due to anticipated life-threatening complications related to her sickle cell disease Tionne struggled to find a surgeon willing to perform surgery. Motivated by her need to live for her daughter she finally found a surgeon willing to take the risk. The surgery was successful, save a 3% loss of hearing in her right ear and paralysis on the right side of her face. Tionne spent 3+ years rehabilitating post the surgery. In 2015 T-Boz adopted a baby boy she named Chance. Tionne was named one of the "50 Most Beautiful People of the World" by People Magazine twice, in 1995 and 2000. She is one of the spokespeople for Sickle Cell Disease Association of America. Info Courtesy of IMDB.com ♥ Chiili ♥ Rozonda Ocelean Thomas was born February 27, 1971 in Atlanta, Georgia. Her father Abdul Ali, is of East Indian and Middle Eastern (Arab) descent, and her mother Ava Thomas is an American of African American and Native American descent. She has one son with producer Dallas Austin - they named him Tron. She is a very close friend of fellow member Tionne 'T-boz' Watkins' of TLC. The death of fellow band member Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes was a heavy loss. She has released three albums along with T-Boz after Left's Eye death. Info Courtesy of IMDB.com We Ship T-Boz & Chilli Because.... 1. They have amazing chemistry 2. Have The Same Morals 3. Are best friends 4. They help each other out 5. Are By Each Other's Sides 6. They love each other 7. They've been through everything together and still didn't break up 8. They've been together for over 25 years 9. She's made T-Boz more affectionate 10. They make each other laugh 11. They have the same expressions 12. They can't keep their hands off each other 13. They admit that they are in a marriage with each other 14. Because their relationship with each other outlasted the relationships they had with men 15. They are really supportive of each other 16. They always look at each other with so much love in their eyes 17. They love to be in each others presence 18. Chilli couldn't keep her eyes of T-Boz when she first joined TLC 19. Chilli always asked questions about T-Boz when she wasn't around (when she first joined TLC) 20. Chilli is always under T-Boz 21. They are in love with each other 22. Both look at each other in sexual ways 23. They always look at each other with so much love in their eyes |FanFiction| Behind Closed Doors [On going] Partners In Crime [incomplete] If It Isn't Love? [on hold, incomplete] TLC:Love Behind The Music [completed, but not to me] I Ain't Never Been No Silly Ho [Finished] Sick Days [Finished] My (80s90sIsTheBest) T & C Stories: Us Against The World [Finished] Don't Leave Me [ongoing] |PICTURES|                   |GRAPHICS| 1.  2. 1.  2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7.  8. 9. 10. 11. |FanVideos| |Shipper Videos| |Upcoming Thread Titles| "She Can Never Divorce Me, Ever" "She's My Baby" |TLC Threads| |Previous Threads| __________________
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Yes. Oh my gosh! I thought I was the only one who noticed, HALLELUJAH!
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Here's a cute article on their relationship that I've found it's from 2015. Rozonda Thomas, who’s famous by the name Chilli, is leaning forward on an upholstered chair in her pocket-size dressing room, unlacing a metallic gold high-top sneaker. It’s 9:16 p.m. last Thursday night at First Niagara Center. On the other side of the cinderblock walls, the late-’80s boy-turned-man-band New Kids on the Block is whoa-oh-oh-oh-ing their way through “You Got It (The Right Stuff).” Chilli’s musical partner of 23 years, Tionne Watkins – you may know her as T-Boz – walks in. Like Chilli, she’s wearing shiny gold overalls over a black sports bra and tights. T-Boz sits on the floor and starts nuzzling Chilli. “Do not take your clothes off,” T-Boz whispers. She needs Chilli to stay dressed for a photo. “But I’ve got to go home!” Chilli insists. “I’m leaving on my bus.” “Please, please?” T-Boz puckers her lips and starts pecking the side of Chilli’s face. Chilli recoils mockingly. “Stop kissing my sweat!” T-Boz smiles sweetly. She knows Chilli will stick for the photo. “I love you!” In the back of the room, a man unfurls a long laugh as he watches these two Atlanta-bred music stars tease each other. At 57, Bill Diggins, tall and lanky, with wavy brown hair, light skin, a white golf shirt, plaid sports coat, gray slacks and brown slip-on dress shoes, looks like a stylish businessman straight out of Irish-Catholic South Buffalo. And that’s what he is. But this place – in the room with Chilli and T-Boz, the remaining two members of the legendary group TLC – is exactly where he belongs. Eighteen years ago, when TLC’s music was flooding the radio and MTV but the group was clawing out of bankruptcy, Diggins convinced the members to hire him as their manager. He made them a big commitment, set a daunting goal and delivered on both – but he’s not nearly done. ... As Chilli, 44, and T-Boz, 45, were unwinding in their dressing rooms, several thousand 30- and 40-something fans, mostly women, were dancing in the arena. But it didn’t take New Kids – the headliners on “The Main Event” tour, which wrapped up its two-month run with the Buffalo show – to lift those ladies out of their seats. TLC took care of that. Even without their third member, Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes, who was killed in a 2002 car accident in Honduras, and even without a chart topper for 15 years (their last was “No Scrubs”), the group remains a draw. Their 45-minute set was loaded with hits: “Waterfalls,” “Creep,” “Unpretty” and “Baby Baby Baby” among them. Diggins, who’s based in San Francisco, where he also runs a technology company, doesn’t travel to every tour stop. The last shows he caught were at Madison Square Garden in New York City, where he watched with his longtime friend, the music mogul L.A. Reid, and talked about his next goals for TLC: One more hit record, and then election to the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. The latter goal, though big, is reasonable: TLC’s cross-genre (R&B, pop and hip-hop) and cross-cultural appeal stands out; their enshrinement is more a question of when than if. As for more smash music? “The hit record is elusive for acts that have been around for quite a while,” said Diggins’ friend Bryan Turner, co-founder of Priority Records. Diggins acknowledges that. For him, the allure lies in the deep challenge. Sitting last week on a cream-colored couch in the South Buffalo home where he grew up, Diggins recounted his days as a Buffalo school kid (He attended St. Thomas Aquinas, then Stella Niagara; he didn’t get a college degree.); his decision to move to Los Angeles to sell welding rods for his uncle’s company; his early successes (By 22, he had earned enough as a salesman to buy a house in Bel Air.); and using his self-made Southern California connections to work his way into the music business, working with such acts as Billy Idol, Johnny Rotten and Bjork. As Diggins reviewed the past, his mother, Marie, sat by his side. “I’d give anything to have about half of what you’ve got,” she said. “That tunnel vision.” ... Eighteen years ago, that tunnel-vision focus landed Diggins the job that will likely define his musical legacy and, in the words of his friend Turner, “literally saved” TLC. In the mid-’90s, despite a string of hits, the group declared bankruptcy. TLC parted ways with multiple managers and wanted to break out of a record deal the members felt was choking their business. Because TLC was one of the hottest acts in the world, multiple big-name managers were lining up for the chance to represent T-Boz, Left Eye and Chilli. In a scene recreated in the 2013 VH1 movie “CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story,” Diggins flew to Atlanta and guaranteed the ladies $50 million in revenues. That was enticing – and Diggins delivered on the promise – but the real deal-making detail wasn’t captured in the movie. Diggins also offered to move to Atlanta so he could focus full-time on TLC. “I was like, ‘You’ve got the job,’ ” Chilli recalled last week in Buffalo. “That did it. That really showed cool dedication to us.” That’s tunnel vision, but Diggins wasn’t the only one who had it. When T-Boz – whom everyone calls by her given name, Tionne – first met Diggins, she asked, “Are you ready for us to ruin your life? Because we’re not going anywhere. We’re going to be here a long time.” ... That’s turned out to be true, but with tragic challenges. Lopes’ death in 2002 hit team TLC hard both personally and professionally. But when T-Boz and Chilli were ready to re-emerge, Diggins was standing by with ideas. He lined up a couple of reality shows designed to keep TLC in the public eye and, more notably, helped sell the idea of the biopic to VH1. The film was a resounding success: It was the most-watched cable movie for adults in 2013. On this tour, Diggins pushed everyone on TLC’s 20-person team – including T-Boz and Chilli – to use a computer program called Teamwork to keep track of every task. (Example: Just to get the tour started, Diggins and his team logged in 2,000 tasks, ranging from lighting needs to travel details.) If anyone wanted to know whether a project was done, he wouldn’t answer the question, but rather referred them to the Teamwork tool. Even Chilli and T-Boz. They’d ask Diggins questions, and every time he’d refuse to answer. He wanted them to lead by example, so he told them to log into Teamwork like everyone else and access the information. “I was so annoyed with him when he first brought this to my attention, but I have to agree, it kind of helped my life,” admitted T-Boz, who jokingly calls Diggins “Mr. Control Freak.” “He taught us how to organize and keep our stuff together, and really to be businesswomen.” Chilli, still leaning into T-Boz in the dressing room, laughs. “I love his persistence.” She often uses Diggins as an example of persistence for her 18-year-old son Tron, who calls the manager Uncle Bill.* When the tour wrapped here Thursday night, it was time for a break. The ladies of TLC rose to their feet. Chilli needed to shoot those photos then get onto her bus to Atlanta. T-Boz was flying out the next morning. “Oh, I love these two,” Diggins said as he embraced T-Boz and gave her a goodbye kiss. “I’m going to miss you.” But not for long. There’s music to record. A tour to plan. A hall of fame to pursue. And, most dauntingly – which for Diggins, means most enticingly – a hit to create. Source: TLC manager is ‘No Scrub’ And here's another article or interview rather that would fit right into this thread  TLC’s LGBTQ Interview: Tops, Bottoms, & NO SCRUBS! __________________
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Hey shippers just thought we should make list of reasons WHY we ship T & C together..I love making these lists in my shipper threads and this one is no different. I'll start it off...
We Ship T-Boz & Chilli Because.... 1. They have amazing chemistry 2. Have The Same Morals 3. Are best friends 4. They help each other out 5. Are By Each Other's Sides 6. They love each other 7. They've been through everything together and still didn't break up 8. They've been together for over 25 years 9. She's made T-Boz more affectionate 10. They make each other laugh 11. They have the same expressions 12. They can't keep their hands off each other __________________
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I have tons of reasons why I ship T & C I'd have to write it down and respond later.
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I just love this video of T & C with Chilli helping T-Boz with her make up so cute!! __________________
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Can you add me? I'm a fan of this pairing.
Notice how that guy on their latest BET interview referred to them as " More than sisterhood, this is a marriage in many respects". They do banter like an old married couple. Chilli joking said that "She can never divorce me, ever". T-boz responded by saying "I tried" LOL. Then Chilli mentioned counseling. HA! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24ag-SHyY6w   Last edited by Caramel_Blaque; 08-31-2017 at 09:55 AM |
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Please delete.
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Hey welcome to the thread Caramel_Blaque! Just so you know you can not double post in a 24 hr period you could get banned for that to add other things to your posts you have edit your posts by clicking on "edit message"
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And funny. It may be weird or silly to say, but I feel like they are married in some respect because really they do act more like a couple then "sisters" or whatever you want to call them. I think they like it just being the two of them now, sure Lisa will always be with them, but think they've moved on if you know what I mean because you can't stay in the past forever; I wish a lot of fans would move on as well it's been so long of the fans saying "The group is just not the same without left eye" statements are really getting old now I'm sorry, but it's true.__________________
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I agree with you on Left Eye. I liked Left Eye (she was my second favorite behind T-Boz) but she didn't make the group. She obviously brought her own flair and charisma into the group but she didn't make the group. She didn't sing at all in any of the songs and the songs that she wasn't rapping on were some of their biggest hits (Baby Baby Baby, Red Light Special, Diggin On You, Unpretty, Creep). Plus Left Eye antics (Chilli somewhat as well) during the Fanmail era irritated me. She only shined on feature projects, she didn't have a successful solo career. I believe T-Boz's Touch Myself charted higher than Left Eye's Block Party? I'm not trying to bash Left Eye but I'm just speaking on my opinion with some facts mixed in. T-boz was the lead singer in the group with Chilli being the second lead. In the Sleigh Ride video i swear at some parts T & C were singing to each other. Get It Up at well, they definitely couldn't keep their hands off of each other, lol. I like their voices together... |
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