This past Sunday marked the 25th anniversary of one of the most infamous MTV News-worthy moments of the '90s: when TLC's Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes burned down then-boyfriend Andre Rison's mansion. They were apparently in the midst of a domestic dispute (which sounds like it was a common occurrence), and Lopes put a bunch of Rison's shoes in a bathtub and lit them on fire, as one does to assert dominance. Unfortunately, the fire spread to the rest of the house and destroyed it.
TLC released "No Scrubs" a few years later, in 1999, and it became the group's third #1 song in the U.S. "No Scrubs" was all about dudes (or "bustas," as it were) who can't get no love from the ladies because they're d-bags. Whether it was aimed in part at Rison, I don't know -- though it does sound like he was a bit of a busta. But either way, RIP Left Eye.
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