Xscape, (pronounced "Escape") was a female American R&B group that originally started out as a quintet and then became a quartet. The group had a string of hit songs during the 1990s. The original lineup of the group consisted of sisters LaTocha Scott and Tamika Scott, Kandi Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle, and Tamera Coggins, though Coggins departed the group before their debut album was released.
LaTocha and Tamika Scott's father, Rev. Randolf Scott, was part of the 1971 R&B group Scott Three during the early '70s. The sisters were trained to sing by their father at an early age. They sang in church and competed in talent shows around the area while growing up. In the early '90s, they met Xscape's other three members, Kandi Burruss, Tameka "Tiny" Cottle-Harris , at the magnet performing arts high school, Tri-Cities, in East Point, Georgia, a city outside of Atlanta. Cottle's father, Charles Pope and her uncle, Joseph Pope (1933–1996), were members of the R&B group, The Tams.
Solo Careers:
Tamika Scott
Scott released the single "Day & Night" in Japan. She also appeared in the 2004 Tyler Perry play, Meet the Browns originating the role of Millet Jenay Baptiste-Brown. She has written, produced, and arranged four songs for and is featured as a solo artist on the movie soundtrack of Tyler Perry's Daddy's Little Girls, which was released January 16, 2007 on Atlantic Records. In 2010, she made a female version of "Say Ahh" with the female rappers Trina, Rasheeda, and Gloss Da Boss. On December 18, 2010 She did a play called Christmas In The Hood.
LaTocha Scott
Scott, Recorded a solo album, titled Solo Flight, and made appearances on Jermaine Dupri's song "All That's Got to Go" and J-Shin's "One Night Stand", which was Scott's first solo R&B single. She also appears on "Liar, Liar" from the soundtrack of The Best Man, Cha Cha's "Dear Diary," and Trick Daddy's single "Thug Holiday".
Kandi Burruss
Burruss has co-written songs for artists such as Mariah Carey, Pink, Whitney Houston and Alicia Keys. She has also written songs for artist like TLC, Destiny's Child, 'N Sync, Boyz II Men, and Faith Evans. In 1999, she appeared on Solé's debut album and was also in a video for the single, titled "4, 5, 6". In 2000, Columbia Records released her solo debut, Hey Kandi, which featured the hit song "Don't Think I'm Not." On December 14, 2010, Buress released the album 1Kandi Koated featuring tracks "Fly Above" and "Leave U." She is also responsible for discovering male R&B quartet Jagged Edge.
Burruss sang backup on LSG's "Wide Open" on their final album, LSG2 in 2003. In 2006, she released "I Need", featuring Eightball & MJG from an upcoming solo album on UpFront Records.
In 2009, Burruss joined the hit Bravo reality show, The Real Housewives of Atlanta.
Tameka "Tiny" Cottle
Cottle co-wrote TLC's 1999 hit "No Scrubs" with Burruss, with her singing vocals on the chorus of the song and on Lil' Kim's "I Know You See Me", Lil Bow Wow's "Let's Get Down", and on 8Ball & MJG's "Things We Used to Do."
Cottle is still in the music business, and has branched out into television. She stars in the BET reality show Tiny & Toya which follows Cottle and her friendship with Antonia "Toya" Johnson Carter, the ex-wife of rap artist Lil’ Wayne. Cottle and rapper T.I. have been together since 2001; they married on July 30, 2010 in Miami Beach, Florida