3D

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3D is the fourth studio album by TLC, released in November 2002 on Arista Records, the first album following the death of Lisa 'Left Eye' Lopes in a car accident in Honduras on April 25, 2002, and an album that was completed using pre-recorded Left Eye vocal and rap tracks alongside newly recorded T-Boz and Chilli material. T-Boz and Chilli sang leads; Left Eye's contributions were recorded before her death and integrated into the production; 'Girl Talk,' 'Damaged,' and 'Hands Up' were the principal singles. The album debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 with 287,000 first-week sales and has been certified platinum in the United States; Left Eye's pre-recorded verse on '2Way' was among the more discussed posthumous musical integrations of the era. 3D stands as the most unusual album in the TLC catalog, a posthumous tribute and commercial continuation simultaneously, and the closing document of a recording career that had generated some of the most commercially successful female group recordings in R&B history. 3D stands as one of the most emotionally complex posthumous albums in R&B history, a record whose biographical context gives even its most straightforwardly commercial moments a weight that transcends their production, and whose reception confirmed that the TLC brand and the emotional investment of the group's fanbase were sufficiently strong to sustain commercial and cultural engagement even under the most tragic creative circumstances.

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