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The trio could move from slinky slow jams to socially conscious grooves with ease, and their reputation as one of R&B's most badass groups was fully legit: when shoddy record contracts saw them broke despite CrazySex圜ool's monster profits, the trio responded by storming their label's offices with a crew of female ex-cons in tow, holding Arista's then-president Clive Davis hostage. Their sound quickly matured, taking R&B next-level with 1994's sophisticated urban pop groundbreaker CrazySex圜ool – the first girl-group album in music history to reach diamond status.

TLC's early sound was classic new jack, but with a rowdy, girl gang edge: Rozonda 'Chilli' Thomas harmonising sweetly with Tionne 'T-Boz' Watkins's alto while Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes dropped feisty, nasal rap verses about safe sex and sisterhood.

Originally conceived as a female Bell Biv DeVoe by execs at by Atlanta's LaFace Records – an Arista imprint dubbed the Motown of the South – TLC would fast succeed their male equivalents. Taking cues from the processed dance pop that Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis had crafted for Janet Jackson in the late 80s, swing was accelerated, slang-driven and sexually charged, and while SWV's biggest hit, Right Here, was wholesome, radio-friendly gold, the sisters were equally adept at turning out provocative, feministy do-me classics like Downtown ('You gotta go downtown/ That's the way to my love'), Black Puddin' ('Women in the 90s want more from a brother than a part-time lover who's wack undercover') and the overlooked but joyously quintessential New Jack banger, Give It to Me. The previous decade's R&B scene had found paragons in restrained, classy soul artists such as Anita Baker and Luther Vandross, but by the early 90s, a rowdy new kind of R&B reigned, one that had shacked up with hip-hop to morph into the hopped-up Keith Sweat and Teddy Riley-helmed new jack swing sound. Lelee, Coko and Taj were gospel choir-honed singers who crafted sweet, melismatic harmonies, with Coko's nasal, almost Martian soprano giving them an inimitable edge. The 1990s golden age for American all-woman R&B trios – Brownstone, Kut Klose, Jade, Monkenstef, 702, BlackGirl – was an era ushered in by New York City's Sisters With Voices.

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