Mercedes Boy


Do Me Right


Girlfriend


Giving You The Benefit


Love/Hate


Love Makes Things Happen

what does she do now?

kimrachell said:

Last I heard, she was a minister.
http://www.myspace.com/sisterperri
[Edited 5/16/09 22:31pm]

Always-feat Cherelle & Johnny Gill

That 2nd album was a winner and this title song was the centerpiece.

Are You Ready?

Nice comeback. I love the fact that she found her groove and never strayed 2 far from it. I hated how she fucked over TLC, but you reap what you sow 'cause TLC made it thru seven more years while Perri fell off and caught the holy ghost. lol

On Soul Train featuring The Deele

i remember i caught Pebbles' green leather glove at a show with Hi-5 at the State Theater in Detroit. her managers tried to buy it back from me for like $150 and i refused (doooh, shoulda took the money). hung out with some of her ppl afterwards and was told to look out for a new girl group they were making, they gave me an early pic of them, turned out to be TLC. Pebbles was hot for a minute. i enjoyed her

funkpill said:

This gave me a good laugh, totally loved both back in the day. The way they danced, dressed, the hair... it kind of resembled my horrid mess say, over 20 years ago or so.

But the mention of TLC above... I really miss their sound and style.

Pebbles was straight up $0.10.

People don't realize how talented she was.
She was ahead of her time.
She was FFT long before cassie and rihanna.

She was talented, but also quite shady when it came to business dealings.

funkpill said:

I have never seen this performance. Was this remix released? I don't remember hearing anything but the extended version.

ernestsewell said:

Very talented. If you can co-write a masterpiece like Whip Appeal, you can do damn-near anything.

She was cute, and still is. I saw her son's Super Sweet 16 on MTV, and she and LA are raising a tyrant in the making

Ottensen said:

Do you expect anything different?

Ottensen said:

They did a piece on him and his blog in Complex Magazine. THEY CLOWNED HIM

daPrettyman said:

Come on now. That doesn't give anyone license to be greedy. Her involvement with TLC was deplorable.

ernestsewell said:

I guess you are right. She did cheat them big time.

I was going through my old vhs tapes this weekend and came across the vh1 behind the music on TLC and heard Left-Eye breaking it DOWN of how they lost all of their money.

I think Pebbles is still suffering because of what she did to them. It's no wonder she went running down the gospel route.

daPrettyman said:

Yep, Lisa really broke that down well. It really explained how an album's profits are divided up. Unfortunately people like Pebbles and Lou Pearlman and even LA Face knew that system forward and backward and used it to fill their pockets.

ernestsewell said:

Exactly! La and Face made a shit-load of money off of all of those LaFace acts. Toni Braxton and TLC really did it for them. Then Usher came along and fattened their pockets even more.

It was really funny how after the TLC fiasco, they started renegotiating deals left and right.

I wonder if Dallas Austin and Jermaine Dupri did the same thing? Dallas was apart of LaFace for a minute with the Highland Place Mobsters. Then he started producing and writing for their acts. Then, next thing I see is he has Monica on Rowdy records. Same for Jermaine. He did a few LaFace mixes and wrote a few songs for them, then he was out to start So SO Def and launched Kris Kross and Xscape.

diamondpearl1 said:

They're family-related. Nieces i think.

Shango said:

Cousins

daPrettyman said:

I remember it getting to the point that Toni Braxton took them to court, trying to renegotiate a contract, and their response was "It's just business", in defense of giving her the "standard" shitty beginners contract.

daPrettyman said:

daPrettyman said:

Didn't Face and LA fall out for a minute because Face felt he
was getting screwed by LA. According to Face, he used to handle
most of the musical ventures while LA handled the business
side of things. They eventually worked their differences out
but Face was even doing production on his own after they fell out.

phunkdaddy said:

Yeah, I think they started falling out in 92/93. LA was doing nothing on the musical side. Face was writing the songs and handling the production. If I'm not mistaken, "For The Cool In You" (the album) was the last thing credited to both La and Face. After 93, it became all Face.

I think that they originally had a deal like Jam and Lewis where they were splitting everything 50/50 regardless or who wrote or produced it.

didn't this money grubbin heffer eventually become a preacher? she steal from TLC now she stealin' from helpless old people.

DesireeNevermind said:

Yep. I posted a link to her myspace page above. She is now known as "Sister Perri".

DesireeNevermind said:

Who said that being a preacher involves old people and stealing money?

daPrettyman said:

first that Vanity and now this.

DesireeNevermind said:

Being a Christian isn't a bad deal. It probably saved her life, being that she was on a path of drugs and renal failure. Something had to pull her back, because no one around her was. But don't forget the others in Prince's camp that are Christians.

Dez. Sheila E. Paul Peterson. Gayle. Brownmark (JW). Kat Dyson. The list goes on.