![]() (I Thought It Was Me)?", "Do Me!", and their signature title track "Poison." The album made quadruple-platinum sales, reached the Top 10 in the Billboard Albums chart for sales, and produced Hot 100 singles like "When Will I See You Smile Again?", "B.B.D. Poison received massive commercial and critical success upon its release for its shift in direction from New Edition, and its harder, tougher, edgier, and simultaneously sexier tracks. (Most recently performing alongside numerous other Boston artists at the One Fund Boston Benefit Concert in 2013.)īell Biv DeVoe's major highlight came in their 1990 debut album: Poison, which was produced by Public Enemy producers Eric Sadler, and Hank and Keith Shocklee. Despite this, the group still performs to this day both with various incarnations of New Edition and as Bell Biv DeVoe themselves. As the group continued onward, further inspiration came from modern R&B and gangsta rap music, but by that point the trio had outlasted their mainstream appeal. Bell Biv DeVoe applied a harder edge to that same sound, utilizing funkier beats, raunchier lyrics, and took massive inspiration from hip-hop music. Just prior to their hiatus, New Edition's sound was romantic, adult, and contemporary, from where the group had formerly been a largely bubblegum pop-oriented version of R&B music. The group quickly set themselves apart from their forebears of New Edition by their sound and attitude. The resulting project was called Bell Biv DeVoe, (A combination of all the members' surnames) and would become a mainstay of music during much of the early 90s. By 1990 New Edition was on hiatus, and members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe formed a new trio at the suggestion of producers Jimmy Jam & Terry Lewis. It was this success that inspired the group to splinter off and go their separate ways towards their own solo projects. Not long after his departure from Boston, MA R&B group New Edition, singer Bobby Brown hit multi-platinum solo success with the release of 1988's Don't Be Cruel.
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