Secrets Behind The Making Of “CrazySexyCool”

It’s one of our favorite albums and we’ve all seen VH1’s biggest TV movie, “The TLC Story: CrazySexyCool.” Nevertheless, MadameNoire compiled a list in celebration of CrazySexyCool‘s 20th anniversary as one of the best selling R&B albums of all time.

Like for example, this album made TLC the biggest girl group in the world at the time, which they are still one of the biggest to this day. Their success makes sense — watching them grow into sexy, sophisticated women. They created an album representative of their personalities as well as how each member was portrayed in the media — taking on their personas. Left Eye named the album as she did all their other albums. She was crazy, Chilli was sexy and T-Boz was cool.

CeeLo Green sings some background vocals on “Waterfalls,” which is the group’s biggest hit to date.

Left Eye’s literally became inspired by a rainbow to write her verse on the single, “Waterfalls.” She’s  the only TLC member to partake in writing this song with Organized Noise and Marqueze Etheridge.

Left Eye hated the concept of “Creep” and its video. She thought it would be better for the woman talked about in the song to leave her cheating boyfriend rather than doing the exact same thing — “creeping on the down low.”

This album marks a period where TLC cut ties with Pebbles’ management, but the group remained with LaFace Records. And the album features her husband-at-the-time LA Reid. He produced a remix of “Diggin’ on You.”

Left Eye isn’t featured on every song and is on the album way less than their previous album because she was in rehabilitation for burning down her then boyfriend Andre Rison’s mansion.

“Creep” features a sample from “Hey Young World” by Slick Rick.

“Case of the Fake People” features a sample from the O’Jay’s “Back Stabbers.”

“Switch” contains a sample from “Mr. Big Stuff” by Jean Knight.

BabyFace came up with some of the concepts, and wrote “Diggin’ on You” and “Red Light Special,” which showcase TLC as sexy and sultry women.