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After TLC's third album, Fanmail ( 1999), Lopes in 2000 became a featured rapper on several singles by other musicians, including former Spice Girl Melanie C's "Never Be The Same Again" and Donell Jones ' debut single, "U Know What's Up". She also sang "Space Cowboy" with N Sync, a song from their 2000 album No Strings Attached.

Lopes was also the host of the short-lived MTV series, The Cut , a precursor to American Idol in which a handful of would-be pop stars, rappers, and rock bands competed against each other and were judged. The show's final winner, which ended up being a male-female rap duo, was promised a record deal and MTV's funding to produce a music video, which would enter MTV's heavy rotation. A then-unknown AnastaciaAnastacia (born Anastacia Newkirk September 17 1973) is an American pop singer who has sold ten million records since the release of her first album Not That Kind in 2000. Early Years Anastacia was born in Chicago, Illinois into a showbiz family: her fath finished in third place, but so impressed Lopes and the show's three judges that she scored herself a record deal anyway.

Lopes discovered the group Blaque and helped them obtain a record deal with Columbia Records. Their self-titled debut album was executive-produced by Lopes, who also made a cameo appearance on the album.

Lopes spent much of her free time after the conclusion of TLC's first headling tour behind Fanmail recording her first solo album, Supernova. Amongst the album's 12 tracks was a posthumous duet with Tupac ShakurFor other people named Tupac, see Tupac (disambiguation). Tupac Amaru Shakur ( June 16, 1971 September 13, 1996) was an influential, best-selling rap artist. Some of his aliases include 2Pac Pac and Makaveli . The names 'Tupac Amaru' and 'Shakur' mean Shi that was assembled from the large cache of unreleased recordings done prior to his murder in 1996. (Lopes also participated in a second posthumous duet with Tupac on one of the many CDs compiled by his estate and released since his death.) Initially scheduled for release on a date to coincide with the 10th anniversary of her father's passing, Supernova was then delayed for two months before her American label chose to shelve the project. The album was released outside of the United States, and hardcore American TLC fans caused a demand for import copies of the album from England and Japan. Lopes then severed her solo deal with Arista (she remained contracted with the label as a member of TLC) and signed with Tha Row Records (the former Death Row labelDeath Row Records (also known as Tha Row Records is a record company that was founded by Suge Knight and Dr. Dre in 1991, under the parent label of Jimmy Iovine's Interscope Records. The label was once home to top rappers such as Dr. Dre, Snoop Doggy Dogg), intending to record a second solo album under the pseudonym N.I.N.A.

Lopes had already started work on both that second solo album and on songs for the fourth TLC album, 3D , when she died in a car crash in HondurasHonduras is a nation of northern Central America, bordered to the west by Guatemala and El Salvador, to the south by Nicaragua and the Pacific Ocean and to the north by the Gulf of Honduras and the Caribbean Sea. The nation of Belize (formerly "British Ho in April 20022002 : January February March April May June July August September October November December A timeline of events in the news for April, 2002. See also Afghanistan timeline April 2002 April 28, 2002 Recent celebrity deaths: Alexander Lebed Russian General. She had been there doing missionary work, which was something she had a passion for.