5. Lil Mama
How you remember her: You probably recall Lil Mama for that insanely catchy single “Lip Gloss,” which was on her 2008 album VYP (Voice of the Young People). Although that song itself went gold and is still beloved today, Mama didn’t follow up on the fame. In 2009 at the MTV VMAs, she crashed the stage as Alicia Keys and Jay-Z were performing, hanging around even though she was uninvited. Less embarrassing, she was Lisa “Left Eye” Lopez in CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story, the VH1 movie about the group.
How you don’t want to remember her: Lil Mama is back…with a mixtape! Although it spawned yet another huge single called “Sausage,” instead of releasing a proper album, she’s taken other people’s songs and added her own touches to them. You can only stream the mixtape, which is called, appropriately enough, Take Me Back.
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