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By 1989, Music/NewEdition was effectively on ice, post-''Heart Break''. Former member Music/BobbyBrown had gone from a [[FormerChildStar seeming has-been]] to a legitimate challenger to Music/MichaelJackson's pop throne overnight, newcomer Johnny Gill's tenure in the group revived his solo career, and Ralph Trsevant was also preparing his own solo debut; leaving Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] to their own devices. Then came a chance suggestion from super-producers [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] to form their own group, and create their own distinct sound.
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By 1989, Music/NewEdition was effectively on ice, post-''Heart Break''. Former member Music/BobbyBrown had gone from a [[FormerChildStar seeming has-been]] to a legitimate challenger to Music/MichaelJackson's pop throne overnight, newcomer Johnny Gill's tenure in the group revived his solo career, and Ralph Trsevant Tresvant was also preparing his own solo debut; leaving Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] to their own devices. Then came a chance suggestion from super-producers [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] to form their own group, and create their own distinct sound.
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Thus began Bell Biv [=DeVoe=], the most successful spinoff act from New Edition next to Bobby Brown. Signing on with longtime New Edition label Creator/{{MCA}}, the group hit the ground running with their debut album ''Poison'' in 1990. With the help of Music/PublicEnemy's famed "Bomb Squad", [[Music/{{Guy}} Timmy Gatling]], Dr. Freeze, and many others, the album introduced a rawer, denser, and more hip-hop slanted take on NewJackSwing, [[UrExample preceding]] Music/{{Jodeci}}'s own HipHopSoul sound by a year. The album reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and quickly went quadruple platinum, and spinning off several successful singles on the Hot 100, including the title track. The next year, the group released ''WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album'', which contained "Word to the Mutha!", a posse cut that reunited New Edition on record; including Bobby Brown, who was kicked out the group five years prior.
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Thus began Bell Biv [=DeVoe=], the most successful spinoff act from New Edition next to Bobby Brown. Signing on with longtime New Edition label Creator/{{MCA}}, the group hit the ground running with their debut album ''Poison'' in 1990. With the help of Music/PublicEnemy's famed "Bomb Squad", [[Music/{{Guy}} Timmy Gatling]], Dr. Freeze, and many others, the album introduced a rawer, denser, and more hip-hop slanted take on NewJackSwing, [[UrExample preceding]] Music/{{Jodeci}}'s own HipHopSoul sound by a year. The album reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and quickly went quadruple platinum, and platinum; spinning off several successful singles on the Hot 100, including the title track. The next year, the group released ''WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album'', which contained "Word to the Mutha!", a posse cut that reunited New Edition on record; including Bobby Brown, who was kicked out the group five years prior.
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* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Because of the massive crack cocaine epidemic going on in America at the time, especially among children, "Dope!" was re-titled as "She's Dope!" for its single release and future pressings of ''Poison''.
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left: Michael "Biv" Bivins, Ronnie [=DeVoe=], and Ricky "Slick" Bell]]
-> ''"[[NewJackSwing Our music is mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip, with a pop feel appeal to it]]."''
By 1989, Music/NewEdition was effectively on ice, post-''Heart Break''. Former member Music/BobbyBrown had gone from a [[FormerChildStar seeming has-been]] to a legitimate challenger to Music/MichaelJackson's pop throne overnight, newcomer Johnny Gill's tenure in the group revived his solo career, and Ralph Trsevant was also preparing his own solo debut; leaving Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] to their own devices. Then came a chance suggestion from super-producers [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] to form their own group, and create their own distinct sound.
Thus began Bell Biv [=DeVoe=], the most successful spinoff act from New Edition next to Bobby Brown. Signing on with longtime New Edition label Creator/{{MCA}}, the group hit the ground running with their debut album ''Poison'' in 1990. With the help of Music/PublicEnemy's famed "Bomb Squad", [[Music/{{Guy}} Timmy Gatling]], Dr. Freeze, and many others, the album introduced a rawer, denser, and more hip-hop slanted take on NewJackSwing, [[UrExample preceding]] Music/{{Jodeci}}'s own HipHopSoul sound by a year. The album reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and quickly went quadruple platinum, and spinning off several successful singles on the Hot 100, including the title track. The next year, the group released ''WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album'', which contained "Word to the Mutha!", a posse cut that reunited New Edition on record; including Bobby Brown, who was kicked out the group five years prior.
In-between BBD's success, Mike Bivins began managing other R&B acts, and groomed them into international superstars; most notably Music/BoyzIIMen. Bivins' success would lead to him forming the record label Biv 10 Records with Creator/{{Motown}} as a joint venture, and BBD would quickly become a part of it.
After ''Poison'', BBD would switch out Dr. Freeze and the Bomb Squad as producers for Music/{{Babyface}}, L.A. Reid, Chris Stokes, and numerous others for their 1993 follow-up, ''Hootie Mack''. A more GangstaRap-influenced album than their debut, the album was a commercial failure in comparison to their debut, only going Gold, and it [[SophomoreSlump put the brakes on BBD's momentum]]. In 1996, the group reunited with the rest of New Edition for a new album and tour, but nobody was on the same page, thanks to everyone's individual successes going to their heads, and both Bell and Brown struggling with drug problems. By 1997, tensions within New Edtion had reached a point to where Brown and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] got into an onstage fistfight in New Mexico, leading to the show getting shut down after their security guards escalated the situation by pulling guns out. Bivins would leave the tour not long after, though Bell and [=DeVoe=] would finish the tour with Gil and Tresvant.
in 2001, BBD reunited, and released their third self-titled album. A commercial and chart failure, the group was dropped from Universal Records, and would rejoin New Edition a couple years later. In 2016, the group would make a grand return on record with a new single, "Run", before releasing ''Three Stripes'' the next year. Currently, BBD continues to tour as a part of New Edition. The rise of BBD is chronicled in the third episode of ''Series/TheNewEditionStory'' miniseries.
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!!Discography:
* ''Poison'' (1990)
* ''Hootie Mack'' (1993)
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum BBD]]'' (2001)
* ''Three Stripes'' (2017)
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!!Songs of Note:
* "Poison"
* "Do Me!"
* "B.B.D. (I Thought It was Me?)"
* "When Will I See You Smile Again?"
* "Dope!" (aka "She's Dope!)
* "Word to the Mutha!" (a New Edition reunion posse cut)
* "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (With Music/JanetJackson, Music/LutherVandross, and Ralph Tresvant)
* "Gangsta"
* "Above the Rim"
* "Something in Your Eyes"
* "Da Hot Shit"
* "Run"
* "Finally"
* "I'm Betta"
* "Outta My Mind" (with Music/BustaRhymes)
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!!These tropes are poison:
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Because of the massive crack cocaine epidemic going on in America at the time, especially among children, "Dope!" was re-titled as "She's Dope!" for its single release and future pressings of ''Poison''.
* GoldDigger: The unnamed woman in "Poison" is a ''very'' pointed example. Producer Dr. Freeze wrote the song about an ex-girlfriend of his at the time who took advantage of him.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In the video for "Poison", Ronnie openly asks who gave him a goofy-print shirt to wear during a [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking segment]], and goes off to complain to the director.
* MisogynySong: "Poison". As mentioned above, the song's writer and producer made it after a rather nasty breakup, and it shows; especially in the rap bridges:
--->''"Poison, deadly, movin' in slow\\
Lookin for a mellow fellow like [=DeVoe=]\\
Gettin paid, laid, so better lay low\\
Schemin' on house, money, and the whole show\\
The low pro ho should be cut like an Afro\\
So what'cha sayin', huh? she's a winner to you\\
But I know she's a loser (How do you know?)\\
Me and the crew used to do her!"''
* NewJackSwing: What made BBD stand out among others in the genre was their heavier rap slant, using beats that wouldn't be out of place on a Music/PublicEnemy album; though it helped that ''Poison'' actually had PE's Bomb Squad on board.
TwoPersonPoolParty: One of the sexscapades Biv describes in "Do Me!" was him and his date getting more than a little frisky in his Jacuzzi:
--->''"The time was 6 o'clock on the Swatch watch\\
No time to chill, got a date\\
Can't be late\\
Hey, the girl is gonna do me\\
Move to the jacuzzi\\
Ooh that booty\\
Smack it up, flip it, rub it down, oh no..."''
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[[caption-width-right:350:From left: Michael "Biv" Bivins, Ronnie [=DeVoe=], and Ricky "Slick" Bell]]
-> ''"[[NewJackSwing Our music is mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip, with a pop feel appeal to it]]."''
By 1989, Music/NewEdition was effectively on ice, post-''Heart Break''. Former member Music/BobbyBrown had gone from a [[FormerChildStar seeming has-been]] to a legitimate challenger to Music/MichaelJackson's pop throne overnight, newcomer Johnny Gill's tenure in the group revived his solo career, and Ralph Trsevant was also preparing his own solo debut; leaving Ricky Bell, Mike Bivins, and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] to their own devices. Then came a chance suggestion from super-producers [[Music/PrincesAssociates Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis]] to form their own group, and create their own distinct sound.
Thus began Bell Biv [=DeVoe=], the most successful spinoff act from New Edition next to Bobby Brown. Signing on with longtime New Edition label Creator/{{MCA}}, the group hit the ground running with their debut album ''Poison'' in 1990. With the help of Music/PublicEnemy's famed "Bomb Squad", [[Music/{{Guy}} Timmy Gatling]], Dr. Freeze, and many others, the album introduced a rawer, denser, and more hip-hop slanted take on NewJackSwing, [[UrExample preceding]] Music/{{Jodeci}}'s own HipHopSoul sound by a year. The album reached the top five of the Billboard 200, and quickly went quadruple platinum, and spinning off several successful singles on the Hot 100, including the title track. The next year, the group released ''WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album'', which contained "Word to the Mutha!", a posse cut that reunited New Edition on record; including Bobby Brown, who was kicked out the group five years prior.
In-between BBD's success, Mike Bivins began managing other R&B acts, and groomed them into international superstars; most notably Music/BoyzIIMen. Bivins' success would lead to him forming the record label Biv 10 Records with Creator/{{Motown}} as a joint venture, and BBD would quickly become a part of it.
After ''Poison'', BBD would switch out Dr. Freeze and the Bomb Squad as producers for Music/{{Babyface}}, L.A. Reid, Chris Stokes, and numerous others for their 1993 follow-up, ''Hootie Mack''. A more GangstaRap-influenced album than their debut, the album was a commercial failure in comparison to their debut, only going Gold, and it [[SophomoreSlump put the brakes on BBD's momentum]]. In 1996, the group reunited with the rest of New Edition for a new album and tour, but nobody was on the same page, thanks to everyone's individual successes going to their heads, and both Bell and Brown struggling with drug problems. By 1997, tensions within New Edtion had reached a point to where Brown and Ronnie [=DeVoe=] got into an onstage fistfight in New Mexico, leading to the show getting shut down after their security guards escalated the situation by pulling guns out. Bivins would leave the tour not long after, though Bell and [=DeVoe=] would finish the tour with Gil and Tresvant.
in 2001, BBD reunited, and released their third self-titled album. A commercial and chart failure, the group was dropped from Universal Records, and would rejoin New Edition a couple years later. In 2016, the group would make a grand return on record with a new single, "Run", before releasing ''Three Stripes'' the next year. Currently, BBD continues to tour as a part of New Edition. The rise of BBD is chronicled in the third episode of ''Series/TheNewEditionStory'' miniseries.
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!!Discography:
* ''Poison'' (1990)
* ''Hootie Mack'' (1993)
* ''[[SelfTitledAlbum BBD]]'' (2001)
* ''Three Stripes'' (2017)
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!!Songs of Note:
* "Poison"
* "Do Me!"
* "B.B.D. (I Thought It was Me?)"
* "When Will I See You Smile Again?"
* "Dope!" (aka "She's Dope!)
* "Word to the Mutha!" (a New Edition reunion posse cut)
* "The Best Things in Life Are Free" (With Music/JanetJackson, Music/LutherVandross, and Ralph Tresvant)
* "Gangsta"
* "Above the Rim"
* "Something in Your Eyes"
* "Da Hot Shit"
* "Run"
* "Finally"
* "I'm Betta"
* "Outta My Mind" (with Music/BustaRhymes)
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!!These tropes are poison:
* DistancedFromCurrentEvents: Because of the massive crack cocaine epidemic going on in America at the time, especially among children, "Dope!" was re-titled as "She's Dope!" for its single release and future pressings of ''Poison''.
* GoldDigger: The unnamed woman in "Poison" is a ''very'' pointed example. Producer Dr. Freeze wrote the song about an ex-girlfriend of his at the time who took advantage of him.
* ImpossiblyTackyClothes: In the video for "Poison", Ronnie openly asks who gave him a goofy-print shirt to wear during a [[BreakingTheFourthWall fourth-wall breaking segment]], and goes off to complain to the director.
* MisogynySong: "Poison". As mentioned above, the song's writer and producer made it after a rather nasty breakup, and it shows; especially in the rap bridges:
--->''"Poison, deadly, movin' in slow\\
Lookin for a mellow fellow like [=DeVoe=]\\
Gettin paid, laid, so better lay low\\
Schemin' on house, money, and the whole show\\
The low pro ho should be cut like an Afro\\
So what'cha sayin', huh? she's a winner to you\\
But I know she's a loser (How do you know?)\\
Me and the crew used to do her!"''
* NewJackSwing: What made BBD stand out among others in the genre was their heavier rap slant, using beats that wouldn't be out of place on a Music/PublicEnemy album; though it helped that ''Poison'' actually had PE's Bomb Squad on board.
TwoPersonPoolParty: One of the sexscapades Biv describes in "Do Me!" was him and his date getting more than a little frisky in his Jacuzzi:
--->''"The time was 6 o'clock on the Swatch watch\\
No time to chill, got a date\\
Can't be late\\
Hey, the girl is gonna do me\\
Move to the jacuzzi\\
Ooh that booty\\
Smack it up, flip it, rub it down, oh no..."''
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