Although the song is a precaution against falling for the “big butt and a smile,” “the crew used to do her.” Sexed up, catchy, the song refreshed the three singers in amazing ways for the brand new decade. Moreover, as Bobby Brown’s bad boy image and penchant for raunch had paid off, the group did the same-in a PG-13 manner. Like a ’90s Miracles, the group bridged from chorus to verse in a way that was instantly infectious. The group’s harmonic beginnings coalesced in a way that stood apart from New Edition. With grabbing production, magnetic pauses, and a complex arrangement, “Poison” was concocted.ī.B.D. Freeze took Kool G Rap’s lisped, punctuated delivery of “Poison” from two years prior, along with two vocal slices from Boogie Down Productions’ own two year-old “Jimmy,” and put it all in a New Jack Swing light. However, the Long Island, New York production team would not deliver the single. With that, the MCA act recruited Public Enemy’s Bomb Squad trio of Hank Shocklee, Keith Shocklee, and Eric “Vietnam” Sadler to inject their sound with the grit, excitement, and edge needed to take their re-brand to listeners, especially male record-buyers. With the brushed up format, the trio donned fresh, Hip-Hop-inspired threads, and seemed less like an R&B group, and more like a Rap crew. did not, and the three lesser profiled members of their veteran group got their names front and center. Still a perennially platinum act, New Edition may have seemed stagnant by 1990. Wu-Tang” of its day (to much greater success and magnitude), and the trio needed the ultimate breakthrough. Super-producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis urged the three other group founders (Michael Bivins, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe) to create an off-shoot. However, the conflicts continued, with Johnny Gill’s addition, and Ralph Tresvant’s own solo interests. Johnny Gill was added as his replacement.
Bobby Brown had been booted from the group, finding tremendous solo success. After five New Edition albums in as many years between 19, the Boston, Massachusetts superstar sensations were at a crossroads in the late 1980s.
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