Editing Lisa Lopes (section)

== Legacy ==
In a statement to [[MTV]], music producer [[Jermaine Dupri]] remembered Lopes: "She was determined to be something in life. She was a true rock star. She didn't care about no press. She was the rock star out of the group. She was the one that would curse on TV. She had the tattoos. You could expect the unexpected. When you see Lisa, you could expect something from her. That's the gift she carried."<ref name="ReferenceA">{{cite news |date=April 26, 2002 |title=Chilli, T-Boz, Jermaine Dupri Remember TLC's Left Eye |url=http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453634/chilli-t-boz-remember-tlcs-left-eye.jhtml |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120505075936/http://www.mtv.com/news/articles/1453634/chilli-t-boz-remember-tlcs-left-eye.jhtml |url-status=dead |archive-date=May 5, 2012 |access-date=August 25, 2013 |work=MTV}}</ref>

Lopes was in the process of setting up two educational centers for Honduran children. One was built on an 80-acre plot of land she called Camp YAC. The other center was called Creative Castle.<ref>{{cite news|last=Silverman|first=Stephen M.|url=http://people.com/celebrity/the-idyllic-last-days-of-lisa-lopes/|title=The Idyllic Last Days of Lisa Lopes|work=People|date=April 30, 2002|access-date=January 12, 2017}}</ref>

In 2003, shortly after Lopes' death, her family started the Lisa Lopes Foundation, a charitable group dedicated to providing neglected and abandoned youth with the resources necessary to increase their quality of life.<ref name="Dines2007">{{cite news|url=http://connection.ebscohost.com/c/articles/26402619/lisa-lopes-foundation-fundraiser-helps-orphans-honduras|last1=Dines|first1=Kaylyn Kendall|title=Lisa Lopes Foundation fundraiser helps orphans in Honduras|newspaper=[[New York Amsterdam News]]|date=August 23, 2007|volume=98|issue=35|page=24|issn=0028-7121}}{{dead link|date=November 2020|bot=medic}}{{cbignore|bot=medic}}</ref> Her spiritual motto was the one used for her foundation: "Energy never dies... it just transforms." Her foundation went into various underdeveloped villages and gave new clothes to poor children and their families. In August 2007, the foundation hosted a charity auction, selling items donated by celebrities. It raised approximately $5,000 for the Hogar de Amor ("Home of Love"), an orphanage in Honduras.<ref name="Dines2007" /> In 2012, the foundation began hosting an annual music festival, known as "Left Eye Music Fest", in [[Decatur, Georgia]].<ref>{{cite news|title=The Lisa Lopes Foundation Announces 1st Annual Left Eye Music Fest on July 28th in Atlanta|url=http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9402574.htm|access-date=December 28, 2017|publisher=PRWeb|date=April 19, 2012|archive-date=July 1, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180701163240/http://www.prweb.com/releases/2012/4/prweb9402574.htm|url-status=dead}}</ref>
In the 2018 [[Boots Riley]] film ''[[Sorry to Bother You]]'', members of a fictional activist group called "Left Eye" use as their symbol a stripe of [[eye black]] under the left eye, in an unmentioned reference to Lopes.<ref>{{cite news|last=Serpell|first=Namwali|url=https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2018/07/21/sorry-to-bother-you-boots-rileys-trojan-horseplay/|title=Sorry to Bother You: Boots Riley's Trojan Horseplay|work=The New York Review of Books|date=July 21, 2018|access-date=August 15, 2018}}</ref>

=== Posthumous documentary ===
A documentary showing the final 27 days of Lopes' life, titled ''[[The Last Days of Left Eye]]'', premiered at the [[Atlanta Film Festival]] in April 2007, for an audience that included many of Lopes' contemporaries, including [[Monica (singer)|Monica]], [[Ronnie DeVoe]], [[112 (band)|112]], [[Big Boi]], [[India.Arie]], and [[Cee Lo Green]].<ref name="mtv.com"/><ref>{{cite news|title="Last Days of Left Eye" and "Fay Grim" Bookend 31st Atlanta Film Fest|url=https://www.indiewire.com/article/last_days_of_left_eye_and_fay_grim_bookend_31st_atlanta_film_fest|access-date=February 8, 2014|newspaper=[[Indiewire]]|date=April 18, 2007}}</ref> [[VH1]] and [[BET Soul|VH1 Soul]] broadcast the documentary on May 19, 2007. Most of the footage was shot with a handheld camera, often in the form of diary entries filmed by Lopes while on a 30-day spiritual retreat in Honduras with sister Reigndrop, brother Ronald and members of the R&B group Egypt.<ref>{{cite news|last=Hefferan|first=Virginia|title=Last Days of Left Eye|url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/arts/television/19left.html|archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20130727085911/https://www.nytimes.com/2007/05/19/arts/television/19left.html|archive-date= July 27, 2013|access-date=February 8, 2014|newspaper=[[The New York Times]]|date=May 19, 2007}}</ref> In these entries, she reflected on her personal life and career. A calmer side of her personality was on display, showing interests in [[numerology]] and [[yoga]].<ref name="LastDays"/> In January 2020, [[Lifetime (TV network)|Lifetime]] aired an episode of ''Hopelessly In Love'', a docuseries that captures the relationships of the rich and famous, about Lopes and Rison's tumultuous relationship. It showcased the complexity of their relationship and how she ended up with a felony arson charge for burning down Rison's Atlanta mansion.