TLC Ooooooohh . . . TLC Tip-TLC
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TLC Ooooooohh . . . TLC Tip-TLC
Ooooooohhh… On the TLC Tip is the debut studio album by American girl group TLC. It was released on February 25, 1992, by LaFace and Arista Records. The title of the album comes from the last line of Left Eye’s rap on “Ain’t 2 Proud 2 Beg”.-Wikipedia
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AllMusic
Although it's uneven, the best moments of On the TLC Tip deserved their popularity, and set the stage for the group's blockbuster success the next time out.
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The Quietus
Lesley Chow revisits TLC's unique debut album TLC′s debut is one of the last occasions on which I′ve felt a sense of powerful and unusual associations coming together, and just as fascinating as the record itself is the world it pulls in with it.
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Albumism
TLC released their debut album Ooooooohhh... On the TLC Tip. 25 years later, it stands as the musical proclamation from a group that emerged to become the valedictorians of a freshman class of artists eager to express the attitudes of the new decade.
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Entertainment
The year’s cleverest, shrewdest new hip-hop act, TLC is a playfully aggressive, seriously feminist trio that doesn’t waste any tender loving care on guys who mistreat them — ”I can do bad all by myself” is only one of their forthright tips to men on Ooooooohhh…On the TLC Tip.
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Rolling Stone
Funky female trio mixes street-level feminism with infectious dance beats.
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Wilson & Alroy's Record Reviews
The three hit singles here hint at the group's versatility: "Ain't Too Proud To Beg" (not the Temptations tune) is joyfully raunchy, sex-positive and assertive, if a bit silly; "Baby-Baby-Baby" is a ballad, in LaFace's cookie-cutter style; and "What About Your Friends" is the album's centerpiece, a moody reflection on fame, fortune and friendship with a devastating Left Eye rap. Beyond the singles, though, the album is pretty thin . . . . (DBW)
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Robert Christgau
Oooooooohhh . . . On the TLC Tip [Arista, 1992] Neither (A Neither may impress once or twice with consistent craft or an arresting track or two. Then it won't.)
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