Episode #06 | 4.17.18
Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes: Hit Me Again and I’ll Burn Your House Down
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In this episode
TLC’s Lisa “Left Eye” Lopes was known as “the crazy one”. She did, after all, burn down her NFL playing boyfriend, Andre Rison’s mansion. But given the fact that it was done after what was then one of many domestic assaults, Disgraceland views Left Eye as a bad ass… and not "the crazy one". This episode digs into what really happened that night, who Lisa Lopes really was as a person and the details surrounding her own premature death.
Sources
Rolling Stone: Life of Fiery Rapper Lisa Lopes Tragically Cut Short
New York Times: Lisa Lopes, Rapper Dies in Honduras Crash at 30
VH1 rockDocs: The Last Days of Left Eye
Disgraceland is a podcast about musicians getting away with murder and behaving very badly. It melds music history, true crime and transgressive fiction. Disgraceland is not journalism. Disgraceland is entertainment. Entertainment inspired by true events. However, certain scenes, characters and names are sometimes fictionalized for dramatic purposes.
Music
Score by Jake Brennan.
Mixed and Engineered by Sean Cahalin.
Disgraceland theme song, "Crenshaw Space Boogie" written and produced by Jake Brennan. Performed by Jake Brennan, Bryce Kanzer, Jay Cannava and Evan Kenney. Mixed and engineered by Adam Taylor.
This episode featured the songs, "Graffiti Lady" and "Brooklyn Girls" written, performed and produced by Bodega Girls with Adam Taylor and Paul Q. Kolderie.
*illustration by Avi Spivak @avispivak
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