No NEW EDITION MOVIE thread?

[goledensilence]

i cant mess with you if this aint on your list 

 

[Magic33]

I never was an Eric Benet fan. I can't rock with shoeless dudes. Not my speed of R&B and after he got Halle and she embarrassed that dude going to therapy I lost all respect for him.

Maxwell is dope.

I thought Donnell Jones and Kenny Latimore would have been bigger.

Siilk and Intro's album had some bangers. RIP Kenny Greene

 

[50inchvert]

Other male R&B groups also came around during the height of the New Edition era who were roughly around the same age. They had to fight off groups like Ready for the World, Riff, Force MD's and Troop. Those are like the only ones that come to my head immediately. NE had a popular sound and it seemed like others were trying to move in on it (no different from today), but they held their ground which was pretty impressive because those groups had some jams.

Being young with an untrained ear and not really being that knowledgeable at the time, I could've sworn "Love You Down" was an NE song until ultimately being corrected on the school yard. Either way that song was a banger! I thought "Tender Love" was NE's joint too. I was trying to give them credit for everybody's hits.

 

[Magic33]

Other male R&B groups also came around during the height of the New Edition era who were roughly around the same age. They had to fight off groups like Ready for the World, Riff, Force MD's and Troop. Those are like the only ones that come to my head immediately. NE had a popular sound and it seemed like others were trying to move in on it (no different from today), but they held their ground which was pretty impressive because those groups had some jams.

Being young with an untrained ear and not really being that knowledgeable at the time, I could've sworn "Love You Down" was an NE song until ultimately being corrected on the school yard. Either way that song was a banger! I thought "Tender Love" was NE's joint too. I was trying to give them credit for everybody's hits.

Force MD's

 

[spiceman80]

I liked it, I damn near forgot it was a BET production, until their untimely commercial breaks promptly reminded me.

One of my fav Al B song. Song so smooth man



Also I will never forget him during the soul train awards lip syncing his *** off performing Secret Garden . I heard he wasn't that great live tho.

His son with Puffy looks just like him.

 

[dathbgboy]

I watched the Unsung on Hi-Five, them dudes were damn near cursed w/ the misfortune they had. Car accident, dude gettin knocked for a body, lead singer dying later on before a come back. They had the jams too. So many groups back in the day it was like u couldn't be a solo artists at one point.

 

[50inchvert]

I watched the Unsung on Hi-Five, them dudes were damn near cursed w/ the misfortune they had. Car accident, dude gettin knocked for a body, lead singer dying later on before a come back. They had the jams too. So many groups back in the day it was like u couldn't be a solo artists at one point.

This video is like the last ingrained memory I have of them all together. I don't even think this made national airwaves. I remember seeing this on a local Hip-Hop and R&B show out here in Dallas.

Remember watching the video and saying to myself the entire time "Mike Jones? Really?!"

 

[steebie j]

First time ever hearing that song. Only one I recognize is Tony Thompson and other cat that came in during the Faithful album....I think that's what it's called. Didn't TT try to bring back Hi Five without the OG members? Is that the group?

But man that song was bad

 

[Maximus Meridius]

Y'all telling me Marvin was that weirdo ****.


But he made Here My Dear!

 

[Magic33]

That was the joint But Rescue Me and A Little Taste of Loving tho

I'm from the Chi and R. Kelly has been messing with young girls for years. He got in trouble for messing with a underage girl back in 1989-1990 but it got swept under the rug. He also used to roll around the high schools looking for young tenderonis :x Also, if you listen to his song that he had with Public Announcement called "She's Got That Vibe", he has a line that says "Aaliyah's got that vibe". Funny that he shouts her out since the song dropped in 1992 and was recorded in 1991 when Aaliyah was 12

But yeah, alot of these R&B cats have serious issues. Marvin Gaye used to make people sleep with his wife so she could tell him about their sexual encounters. He also used to walk around with a strap on because he felt that his manhood wasnt adequate. And he was seriously addicted to drugs and porn.

This thread really makes me miss the Midnight Soul and Video Soul shows on BET. You could hear really good music on those shows

Girl I knew from school said R Kelly used to roll up to her high school

I also heard Doug Banks(RIP) talk about it on the radio before.

 

[sthebest]

This video is like the last ingrained memory I have of them all together. I don't even think this made national airwaves. I remember seeing this on a local Hip-Hop and R&B show out here in Dallas.

Remember watching the video and saying to myself the entire time "Mike Jones? Really?!"

I remember this video. Tony was the only original member in this lineup. During this period, Tony went on a Wendy Williams interview and said none of the other members could sing. Toriano (dude who got locked up for murder shortly after the first album dropped) called the radio station and went ham on him

 

[sthebest]

I never was an Eric Benet fan. I can't rock with shoeless dudes. Not my speed of R&B and after he got Halle and she embarrassed that dude going to therapy I lost all respect for him.

Maxwell is dope.

I thought Donnell Jones and Kenny Latimore would have been bigger.

Siilk and Intro's album had some bangers. RIP Kenny Greene

Intro definitely deserves a Unsung. Kenny Greene could sing his behind off. And all the while dude was living with AIDS

I felt like there was so much good R&B back in the day not everyone could shine...Shai never got the fame they deserved, neither did Jade, Silk or hell even Portrait

 

[Hahahaha]

I play Shai's first album front to back all the time. Their second album "Blackface" was dope too. Not sure why the label didn't promote it like that. I didn't even know it dropped until like 4-5 years later. That's why I want to see an Unsung on them.

Soul for Real's first album is crazy too. I can play that straight through. Second album got no love as well

 

[Magic33]

Blackface had some mature stuff on it. I also liked it. I didn't care for a lot of the uptempo stuff.

It was sad what happen with them, because they had two successful albums and were also frat brothers.

Intro definitely deserves a Unsung. Kenny Greene could sing his behind off. And all the while dude was living with AIDS

I felt like there was so much good R&B back in the day not everyone could shine...Shai never got the fame they deserved, neither did Jade, Silk or hell even Portrait

Come Inside's extended version to young ears

I learned Kenny had AIDS from someone who went to visit him in the hospital while he was sick.

 

[dathbgboy]

This video is like the last ingrained memory I have of them all together. I don't even think this made national airwaves. I remember seeing this on a local Hip-Hop and R&B show out here in Dallas.

Remember watching the video and saying to myself the entire time "Mike Jones? Really?!"

I remember this video. Tony was the only original member in this lineup. During this period, Tony went on a Wendy Williams interview and said none of the other members could sing. Toriano (dude who got locked up for murder shortly after the first album dropped) called the radio station and went ham on him

Figured, didn't recogize any of em

And those songs and visuals were terrible.

I think back then, if your album didn't climb the charts immediately, u got no love from the label.

I need TVOne to release these joints as a dvd series or something, I'm missin out

And while Jade was coo, their appeal wasn't strong enough to compete w/ SWV, TLC, Total coming up, and En Vogue.

 

[Magic33]

Jade could sing.

Brownstone was dope too.

Tony Thompson was on Bad Boy for a sec. Dude had a second chance, drugs though

 

[sthebest]

I play Shai's first album front to back all the time. Their second album "Blackface" was dope too. Not sure why the label didn't promote it like that. I didn't even know it dropped until like 4-5 years later. That's why I want to see an Unsung on them.

Soul for Real's first album is crazy too. I can play that straight through. Second album got no love as well

Soul for Real's first album was a certified classic. I could play it from front to back and never get tired of it. A group that never got their due was UNV. "Something's Going On" was that cut. Those dudes had some powerful voices

 

[jshortt]

I never was an Eric Benet fan. I can't rock with shoeless dudes. Not my speed of R&B and after he got Halle and she embarrassed that dude going to therapy I lost all respect for him.

Maxwell is dope.

I thought Donnell Jones and Kenny Latimore would have been bigger.

Siilk and Intro's album had some bangers. RIP Kenny Greene

Oooooo Intro. Damn, I loved them back in the day. I'm gonna have to go dig out my CDs now lol.

Peace,
J

 

[kingsrborn]

Yeap.I seen Puff talking about he was a huge Hi-Five fan.I liked Tony so much.That he wanted him to succeed in the business.Puff moved him to New York a couple of years before he died.He said he was writing songs for him,doing vocals.Puff said he was part of the team,basically paying him to do work.Puff said after a couple of months.He found out Tony had bad drug addiction.Puff said he was getting high off of anything he could get.He couldn't shake his addiction.And went back to Waco Tx.It was sad to hear he had a second chance.But didnt take advantage of it.I remember seeing videos of him.Talking about making a comeback a couple of years before he died.I was thinking in my head no your not.If you cant make a comeback with 1 of the biggest music executives in the game.Then what makes you think you can do it alone.Thats hustling backwards.I knew he was delusional and deep off them drugs after that.He had voice out of this world.It doesnt mean anything if you can't control or erraticate the problems from the inside.

 

[solewoman]

Subway had the low cuts too. This little game we play

 

[sthebest]

Subway had the low cuts too. This little game we play

I loved Subway! "Good Times" as a album was a classic. "Fire" was a banger. Funny part is that those dudes were only like 13 when "These Little Games We Play" came out.

Also, Immature's "Playtime Is Over" was one of my favorite CDs from back then. "Constantly" and "I Don't Mind" were the cuts

 

[50inchvert]

I honestly wouldn't mind seeing a B2K biopic. That's one of the groups I mainly remember growing up since I was born in 1990.

This would be made interesting only due to the allegations that Chris Stokes and Marques Houston were going priest mode on the shorties. I highly doubt they'd allow a movie to use their likeness in such an incriminating way. When those stories starting coming out that whole situation just reeked of all sorts of dysfunction. Sounds like those little dudes got it bad.

 

[servechilled81]

1 biopic that they've been trying to get made for years that needs to happen is Marvin Gaye

his music/family story would kill on the big screen

Wood Harris as Marvin Gaye needs to happen

 

[steebie j]

I heard the Gaye family is hard to deal with but I hope a biopic about him happens

 

[Maximus Meridius]