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About Tyrese
R&B singer and actor Tyrese Gibson -- referred to as Tyrese -- began his career at the age of 14, performing in local talent shows around his home in Los Angeles' Watts section. His big break came when he starred in a commercial for Coca-Cola, followed shortly in 1998 by his self-titled debut album for RCA. 2000 Watts arrived three years later and I Wanna Go There appeared a year after that, but it wasn't until late 2006 that he released his fourth album, Alter Ego, a double-disc set split between R&B and rap material. Even with the four-year gap between releases, Alter Ego was Tyrese's fourth consecutive Top Ten R&B album. Another five years passed before Open Invitation, where he declared to his listeners that music had always been his first love. A couple years later, he teamed up with Tank and Ginuwine for Three Kings, the debut album from his R&B supergroup TGT. A major success, it debuted at number three on the Billboard 200 chart.
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About Monica
When Monica arrived in the wake of the new jack swing era with the multi-platinum Miss Thang (1995), the singer was among a class of teenaged pop-R&B newcomers with the likes of Usher, Brandy, and Aaliyah. She stood out with distinctly Southern grit and boldness, as well as unmatched maturity and versatility that belied her age. Like those peers, Monica proved to be no mere shooting star. Her follow-up, The Boy Is Mine (1998), also went multi-platinum, powered by the Brandy duet of the same title, which for three months topped the Hot 100 before it took that year's Grammy for Best R&B Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal. Just as she and early supporter Dallas Austin were key to the emergence of the Atlanta music scene in the '90s, Monica was a major factor in the city's dominance across the next two decades. She put together four straight Top Ten albums, including the chart-topping After the Storm (2003), and each one involved established and emergent Georgians as producers, fellow songwriters, and featured artists. By the time Monica ended her major-label affiliation, following her eighth album Code Red (2015), her catalog was deep and deceptively vast, ranging from Diane Warren-penned adult contemporary ballads to Millie Jackson-like broadsides, and from vintage-sounding slow jams produced by Missy Elliott to booming tracks straight from the streets of ATL. She has since gone independent with singles issued in anticipation of Trenches (2020), her ninth full-length.
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About 112
Founded by group member Michael Keith and groomed by Sean “Puffy” Combs, the Atlanta-based group 112, had a meteoric rise that solidified them as the hottest R&B group of their time. Their debut, album “112” (1996) went double Platinum and gave us hit records like “Cupid” and “Only You”, which featured memorable features from the late, great Notorious B.I.G while also introducing us to then newcomer on the scene, and Bad Boy label mate, Mase. Proving that lightening can in fact be caught in the bottle, the group quickly followed up their debut with yet another double Platinum offering. “Room 112” dropped just two years later and featured records like “Come See Me” and “Anywhere”
The Grammy-winners debuted “Spend It All” during a Memorial Day VERZUZ battle to over 300 thousand fans and a flurry of thumbs up and fire emojis from celebrity friends like Diddy, Stevie J, Marion Winans, Keri Hilson and more. The pair were declared victorious on scorecards from both Billboard.com and Revolt.tv after the legendary group went head-to-head with Jagged Edge, garnering over 6.5 million media impressions. Not letting quarantine keep them from delivering for the fans, 112 spent the majority of quarantine in the recording studio, fine-tuning their new project to honor the female fans that have kept their legacy going strong for 25 years.
About Dru Hill
High-school friends Larry "Jazz" Anthony, Mark "Sisqó" Andrews, Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, and James "Woody Rock" Green formed Dru Hill in 1992, named in honor of their Baltimore neighborhood, Druid Hill Park. The vocalists performed at the music industry convention Impact '96 and were signed by Island not long after. By late 1996, Dru Hill had released their self-titled debut album, produced by Keith Sweat, Stanley Brown, and Tim "Dawg" Patterson. The single "Tell Me" -- culled from the soundtrack to the film Eddie -- became a Top Five R&B hit and later went gold. Enter the Dru followed in 1998, peaking at number two on the Billboard album chart. Despite Sisqó's solo success with "Thong Song," the group continued intact -- along with new member Scola -- and issued Dru World Order in 2002, two years after it was initially slated for release. Hits followed in 2005, eventually reaching three million in sales. Scola was later replaced by Antwuan "Tao" Simpson, and the group released its fourth studio album, Indrupendence Day, in 2010. Their return was the subject of Keith Sweat's Platinum House, a reality series broadcast on the Centric channel
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About Next
Along with the likes of Dru Hill and Jagged Edge, Next were part of a late-'90s contemporary R&B class that combined a gospel background, suggestive lyrics, multi-part harmonies, and slick productions with stylistic cues taken from Jodeci and R. Kelly. From 1997 through 2000, the trio placed four singles within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the chart-topping "Too Close" and number seven hit "Wifey." After two albums for major-label Arista, including the multi-platinum 1997 debut Rated Next, the group moved to Clive Davis' post-Arista venture J Records, where they released a third album prior to a rift in 2003. The original members released new material 15 years later, following an acrimonious split and some false restarts.
Robert "RL" Huggar and Marlon "Shilo" Benjamin met fellow vocalists and brothers Terry "T-Low" Brown and Raphel "Tweety" Brown through musician Reverend James Grear. Formed in 1992 as Strate4ward, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based vocal quartet was mentored by Grear and Sounds of Blackness' Ann Nesby. Following some local performances, Benjamin was ousted from the group, renamed Next by RL. RL, T-Low, and Tweet then made a demo produced by Tony "Prof-T" Tolbert and Lo-Key?'s Lance Alexander. The recording reached Naughty by Nature's Keir "KayGee" Gist, who promptly arranged a showcase for Clive Davis. This resulted in a deal with Davis' Arista label. Next made their debut with "Butta Love," co-produced by Tolbert, Alexander, Gist, Darren Lighty, and the Beatminerz' Walt "Mr. Walt" Dewgarde. The ballad entered the Billboard R&B/hip-hop chart in September 1997 -- eventually reaching number four -- and was followed later that month by the full-length Rated Next. The album's success was boosted and sustained with a couple additional singles co-produced by Gist and Lighty. "Too Close," memorable for its dance groove as much as its bawdy hook, reached the top of the Hot 100. The album's third single, "I Still Love You," went Top Five R&B/hip-hop.
In June 2000, a month after Rated Next received a double-platinum certification from the RIAA, Next issued their follow-up album, Welcome II Nextasy. With Gist and Lighty still in their corner, the group hit the pop Top Ten again with "Wifey." The parent album didn't have the longevity of the debut but was certified gold within a month of release. During subsequent downtime, Next were featured on Jaheim's Top Ten R&B/hip-hop hit "Anything," and RL recorded a solo album, RL:Ements, for Clive Davis' then new J label. RL's set was only eight months old when, in December 2002, Next followed suit on J with The Next Episode. The album was barely promoted, with "Imagine That," produced by Gist, Lighty, and Eddie F, the lone single to chart. Shortly thereafter, financial and creative misgivings came to a head. The group requested and received release from Davis' label, and Tweet departed. Tweet returned several years later, though he hadn't missed much. RL was out of the picture by the time T-Low, Tweet, and new vocalist Aaron Deponce recorded the single "Leaving with Me." By the time that song was available in 2014, Deponce was no longer in the group. RL eventually returned, and in 2018 the original three members of Next independently released the characteristically salacious "Want It."
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Smoking
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