Takin’ It To The Street

09/20/2010

When groups split up, there’s always a main member or two that feel they can go it alone and continue the success. Sometimes they’re right, other times, they’re wrong. In Teddy Riley‘s case, when Guy split up in late ’91, he took a different route. At the time, he was one of the top producers out there and a vocalist in Guy, so he easily could have spun off into a solo career. Instead, he made a move to start another group. Along with Chauncey “Black” Hannibal, Joseph “Street” Stonestreet, and Levi Little, TR kicked off another chapter in his career with BlackStreet.

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DANJ! Presents: Group Therapy, Pt. 2

07/09/2010

So… in my first “Group Therapy” entry in May, I covered some R&B groups that had a run during the early-to-mid-’90s. This time, I’m keepin’ it in that era, but on the hip-hop side. There’s not many groups around in that genre either these days, but there was a time when it was more of those than solo acts. These three in particular were wildly popular during the first half, although they had some trouble as the years went on. A lot of that was due to their own influence on the game, which also led to rampant biting and cheap imitations in the process.

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DANJ! Presents: Group Therapy, Pt. 1

05/25/2010

So… one day last week, I’m mindin’ my own business on Twitter, shootin’ the shit and whatnot. Suddenly, folk start talkin’ about the nominations for this year’s BET Awards. Now of course, I have no interest in seein’ the awards this year (especially after last year’s bullshit), but I go to check these nominees out anyway, right…

There’s three things I came away from it with: A) There’s no need for a Best Female Hip-Hop Artist category anymore, since there’s only one that’s been slightly relevant  in the last year,  B) Justin Bieber is the new face of blue-eyed soul (?), and C) R&B and Hip-Hop groups are at an all-time low. Any time The New Boyz (who have a total of one hit), Dirty Money (who haven’t dropped an album), and Young Money (who’s actually just a buncha solo artists who made an album together) are up for it… I guess all you gotta do is be a group to get into that category nowadays.

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