T-Boz TLC bankruptcy interview
by Freddenver: TLC
TLC moved 14,000,000 albums then filed for bankruptcy. T-Boz told the story of them going up to the label like yall owe us money, the rule was take everything off the walls and any desk that says TLC. CrazySexyCool.
Transcript (en)
I found out that the contracts were unique. I'll just use that word. Or janky. Stanky jank contracts. I can't describe the feeling I felt. It was just disappointment. You go through a lot of emotions. You feel like you were lied to. You don't know who you can trust, who you can believe. So I have a song on the first album. We was even talking smack then. It's called Case of the Fake People. I thought that I knew about them. Thought that they would never do me wrong. Well, well, they'll smile in your face. Okay. Yeah, we was talking about that in that song way back then. We were so broke, we couldn't even afford to go bankrupt. We had to borrow $15,000 a piece from Andre Risen to foul the chapter that we fouled. And he gave it to us. So $45,000, I think it was, that we needed. And so, yeah. We borrowed the money for bankruptcy from Andre Rison before she burned his house.
