Chilli and music producer Austin began dating in the early '90s, and in 1997, they welcomed their son, Tron Austin. The couple split a few years later, around 2001, when the TLC singer began seeing Usher. While they went on to successfully coparent their son, Austin revealed to Atlanta Black Star in 2021 that early on, he found it difficult to move forward — especially when it came to the song "Cool," which he originally wrote for his ex and TLC before giving the song to Gwen Stefani instead.
"I didn't want to give them that song because the song was about me and Rozonda saying 'Hey now that you're dating Usher, that's good, me and him was cool, everybody done had their fights and everything else, but now I moved on, you moved on, now we're cool," he explained.
Austin continued, "We had just broke up . . . I wanted to kill everybody because, honestly, I was friends with Usher, too. By the time I call and said, 'Hey let's be together in Miami,' she was like, 'Nah, nah, nah that's a wrap. I'm done.'"