The hiphop group TLC unveiled its new reality series at the TV Critics Association press tour in Los Angeles, but the two remaining members, T-Boz and Chilli, are not looking to replace Lisa “Left-Eye” Lopez, who died in a car crash in Honduras in April 2002.

The winner of the new UPN show, “R U the Girl?” will record two new singles with the pair and perform those songs in a live concert with the group. Catching up with Tionne “T-Boz” Watkins after the formal session, she told me that the new singer will not sing Lopez’s parts in old songs, and that TLC would not, in fact, perform any of their past songs with the new singer.

“TLC is TLC, and that’s kind of stepping over into … that would go over into people thinking we were replacing her, and that wouldn’t be respectful,” T-Boz said. “If I didn’t make it here, I wouldn’t want nobody singing my parts, so I’m not going to do Lisa like that.”

On a less serious note, T-Boz, 35, talked about her childhood, Destiny’s Child and her home life.

“My first concert ever was The Commodores with my grandma,” she said. “I remember that, she took me in a cab to Ames, Iowa. … I was 7.”

As a member of the modern-day legends of female hiphop and dance music, T-Boz shared some blunt feelings about Destiny’s Child, who opened for TLC in the past.

“I’ll put it out there, to me it was always about Beyonce, I’m sorry,” T-Boz said. “So if the other girls get mad, oh well. There’s no group that can replace people three or four times and it not be about Ms. Knoles. I read articles that said, ‘Beyonce’s band is breaking up.’ I would’ve been pissed off if I was Michelle and, umm, what’s that girl’s name, and Kelly.”

T-Boz made some fireworks recently in her suburban neighborhood of Sugar Loaf Country Club in Duluth, Ga., outside of Atlanta when a neighbor threatened to run over people at her Fourth of July party in his car.

“We just had a big crazy thing where this guy tried to run over eight people at my party because he wanted us to stop doing fireworks in the street, which I do every year in my subdivision,” she said. “They have some sadistic people over there, so I kinda stay to myself, but it’s nice for kids. That’s why I moved there, not the neighbors. Moved over there because they have a lot of activities for kids, you know, waterslides and stuff. It’s the jam.”