DRU HILL BEHIND THE SCENES
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- Опубліковано 1 жов 2024
- Dru Hill is an American R&B group mostly popular during the 1990s, whose repertoire included soul, hip hop soul and gospel music. The group was founded in Baltimore in 1992 and is still active. 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". The original members were lead singer Mark "Sisqó" Andrews, Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, Larry "Jazz" Anthony and James "Woody Rock" Green.
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. While Woody's Soul Music LP 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 Dru Hill. Sisqó's second album, Return of Dragon, did not perform as well.
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, whose underperformance led to the group being dropped from Def Soul. 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.
Early career
The members of Dru Hill are natives of Baltimore. 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 group's name comes from Baltimore's Druid Hill Park, which is commonly shortened in the local vernacular to "Dru Hill".
Between 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. "We're Not Making Love No More" was written and produced by producer Babyface. 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. The group was also instrumental in writing and producing for new University artist Mýa, whose first two singles "It's All About Me" and "Movin' On", were co-written by Sisqó, who also performs guest vocals on "It's All About Me".
Enter the Dru
Dru Hill's third Top 20 pop hit came in the form of 1998's "How Deep Is Your Love" (Pop #3), which was included on the soundtrack to the Jackie Chan and Chris Tucker film Rush Hour. The single "This Is What We Do", featuring a guest rap from Method Man , set the tone for the group's second album, Enter the Dru. The album featured several other mid-tempo tracks in the vein of "How Deep Is Your Love", as well as the R&B Top 5 single "These are the Times" (Pop #21), co-written and co-produced by Babyface, and featuring guitar work from Atlanta-based session guitarist and former Earth Wind & Fire member Dick Smith.
Enter the Dru eventually sold two million copies by 1999.[6] That year, Dru Hill recorded a version of "Enchantment Passing Through" for the soundtrack to the Broadway musical Aida, which was also featured on Sisqó's album Unleash the Dragon.
Sisqó released his debut Unleash the Dragon LP, and had a minor hit with his first single, "Got to Get It" featuring Make It Hot. His second single, "Thong Song", became a major hit during the spring of 2000, and his third, "Incomplete", became a number-one hit during the summer.
Dru World Order
Dru World Order was released on November 26, 2002, two years after its original planned release date. Nearly all of the album's tracks were produced by Nokio, who sung lead on the tracks "She Said" and "Men Always Regret". Producers such as Bryan Michael Cox, Eric "Nealante" Phillips and Kwamé also made contributions. Most of the album's tracks featured Sisqó, Jazz, Woody, and Scola sharing the leads, including the lead single "I Should Be...". "I Should Be..." was a Top 30 pop hit and a Top 10 R&B hit.
Woody's and Scola's departure
In early 2008, the original quartet version of Dru Hill began touring alongside fellow 1990s acts Tony! Toni! Toné!, Bell Biv Devoe, and their former producer Keith Sweat. The group held a contest in their native Baltimore for a replacement for Woody, settling upon a new singer, Antwuan "Tao" Simpson. The group never said why they did not keep Scola in the group, although it was later stated by Nokio that "five people [mess] up the money".
![[Exclusive] Woody (of Dru Hill) - Says radio station fight was a HOAX!!](http://i.ytimg.com/vi/gJHn_kR4d9s/mqdefault.jpg)
Sisqo sang his soul off!!!!!!!! 👏🏾👏🏾
The greatest group of all time to me. Soooooo amazing melodically!
My favorite group too
Oh wow.I never knew they did a Coca-Cola commercial.I love behind the scene videos.❤❤❤❤
All Nokio did was breath on the track lol. He's the producer of the group.
Real church boys frr
Dem boyz can saaaaannngggggg. Sisqo smashes it every time. He a beast 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Wow I Didnt know that Dru Hill are doing Coca- Cola commercial.They are soo creative.What year was it?
July 7th, 1997
I absolutely love watching artists create🥰
Sisqó was SANGING!!!
Sisqo voice is GOATed and Jazz did his thing too. 💯
I Alwayz loved Sisqo'z Blonde Hair!!!
Nokio is Cool Also!!!
All this for soda 😂😂😂
Look how young they was 💛💙💜
Dru hill 4 ever
I have never seen this and I am the biggest Dru Hill Fan!! I got to see more of this legendary footage!!
Legendary footage thank you for posting this
Love little Sisqo he is one of a kind. Worldwide he is known🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽💞💞💞😘😘🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯
Never knew they did a Coca-Cola commercial. What year is this from and have you got the commercial?
1997
Wow I never knew they did a Coca Cola commercial! Big thanks for uploading this!
Don’t play with my boy sisqo!!!!
I looking for this Dru Hill footage for years... I was almost to the point of assuming it was a false childhood memory 😅
I just wanna hug Woody!!! 🤗🤗🤗☺️
Love this 🔥🔥🔥🔥
Sisqo was so ahead of his time. He is fyne. Jazz has the voice of butter mmm, Woodys s darling, Nokio is a business man
Nah, Sisqo came out in the right time period because if he came out now, he would be ignored like all the other real talent today. Real talent is not appreciated anymore. Glad we had him in the 90s.
Back here in 2022. I been searching for this for yrs. Thank u
I remember that Coca-cola commercial, they used to play it on the radio on 99.1 (99 Jamz) in Miami.
Jas voice ❤they are definitely Fav.
*Jazz*
Wow!!!
They all are incredible ♥️
Sanging for coke
Nokio lol
happy 45th birthday mark althavan andrews aka sisqo !!!
Thank you so much for this!! It’s very rare to find behind the scenes footage 🔥🙏🏽