Dru Hill and rapper Foxy Brown recorded "Big Bad Mama", a remake of Carl Carlton's 1981 hit "She's a Bad Mama Jama (She's Built, She's Stacked)", which was the main single for the soundtrack to the 1997 Bill Bellamy film Def Jam's How to Be a Player. "We're Not Making Love No More" was written and produced by producer Babyface. īetween their first and second albums, Dru Hill contributed "We're Not Making Love No More", a number 2 R&B and number 13 pop hit, to the Soul Food soundtrack. The group's name comes from Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, which is commonly shortened in the local vernacular to "Dru Hill". The group became known getting jobs at The Fudgery, a local fudge factory at Harborplace at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, beginning a store tradition of singing and performing to entertain guests while making fudge. The members of Dru Hill are natives of Baltimore. In 2009, the group signed to Kedar Entertainment Group and released their fourth album, InDRUpendence Day, the following year, with new member Tao taking the place of the again departed Woody. Due to the group's failure to produce any new music featuring Sisqo (he chose not to lend his vocals to new recordings), Def Jam cited the group as non-productive and destructive and dropped the group from Def Soul. In 2002, by then part of the Def Soul record label, the group reunited and added fifth member Scola to the lineup for their third album, Dru World Order after that album underperformed the group met with New Label President L.A. Sisqó's second album, Return of Dragon, did not perform as well. While Woody's album Soul Music was a moderate success in the gospel music industry, Sisqó's debut album, Unleash the Dragon, and its hit singles, " Thong Song" and "Incomplete", were major pop successes, and established Sisqó as a household name outside of Dru Hill. Dru Hill was influenced by the Dragon and Asian culture, as displayed in their wardrobe and logo. Signing to Island Records through Haqq Islam's University Records imprint, the group released two successful albums, Dru Hill and Enter the Dru, before separating for a period from late 1999 to 2002, during which time Sisqó and Woody released solo albums. The group achieved popularity in the 1990s. Its original members were lead singer Mark "Sisqó" Andrews, Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, Larry "Jazz" Anthony and James "Woody" Green. Dru Hill recorded seven Top 40 hits, and is best known for the R&B number-one hits " In My Bed", " Never Make a Promise" and " How Deep Is Your Love". The group was founded in Baltimore in 1992 and is still active. " Tao's audition can be seen on Hill is an American R&B group, whose repertoire included soul, hip hop soul and gospel music. Tao won a spot in the group after winning a competition by singing a transcendent version of Stevie Wonder's "Lately. The new album will not include Woody or Scola, but will include new group member Tao. Dru Hill recently reformed and plans to release a new album, Indrupendence, which will harbor songs like "Get Loose" and "If You Fall" that can now be heard on www. In 2002, by then part of the Def Soul record label, the group reunited and added fifth member Rufus "Scola" Waller to the lineup for their third LP, Dru World Order. Signing to Island Records through Haqq Islam's University Records imprint, Dru Hill released two successful LPs before separating for a period from late 1999 to 2002, during which time Sisqó and Woody released solo albums. Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin was the group's founder and leader his bandmates included main lead singer Mark "Sisqó" Andrews, Larry "Jazz" Anthony, and James "Woody" Green. Founded in Baltimore, Maryland and active from 1992 to 2005, Dru Hill recorded seven Top 40 hits, and is best known for the R&B #1 hits "In My Bed", "Never Make a Promise", and "How Deep is Your Love". Dru Hill is an American singing group, most popular during the late 1990s, whose repertoire includes R&B and soul music.
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