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| Artist : Jodeci |
| Album : Back To The Future: The Very Best Of (Advance) |
| Bitrate : VBR kbps |
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| Label : Universal Records |
| Year : 2005 |
| Genre : R&B |
| Ripper : Kournikova |
| Rip date : 2005-05-24 |
| Store date : 2005-06-07 |
| Size : 124 megs |
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| 1. Forever My lady 5:15 |
| 2. Stay 5:10 |
| 3. Come And Talk To Me 4:30 |
| 4. I'm Still Waiting 4:19 |
| 5. Lately 5:49 |
| 6. Cry For You 5:00 |
| 7. Feenin' 5:10 |
| 8. My Heart Belongs To You 4:59 |
| 9. What About Us 4:32 |
| 10. Love U 4 Life 4:54 |
| 11. Freek N' You 6:35 |
| 12. Alone (Remix) 4:41 |
| 13. Success (Remix) 4:36 |
| 14. Get On Up 4:04 |
| 15. S-More (Remix) 5:16 |
| 16. Good Luv 4:50 |
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| 79:40 |
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| Enjoy! |
| |
| If Boyz II Men are portrayed as a clean-cut, wholesome R&B vocal group, |
| then Jodeci's wild, sexual, bad-boy image represents the other side of |
| the coin. Made up of two sets of brothers, the group's name is a |
| consolidation of three members' aliases: "JoJo" Hailey, Donald "DeVante |
| Swing" DeGrate, and Cedric "K-Ci" Hailey; the group also includes Dalvin |
| DeGrate. Natives of Charlotte, NC, all four members toured the South as |
| young boys singing gospel music, even recording albums; both families |
| belonged to the Pentecostal church, and the DeGrates' father was a |
| minister. The boys were able to hear each other's gospel songs played on |
| the radio, and eventually were introduced through girlfriends as |
| teenagers. However, when they did meet, K-Ci was with a girl Dalvin had |
| been dating, and a fight nearly broke out. The Hailey brothers and |
| DeVante started hanging out together, partying and talking about making |
| R&B records together, coming up with the name Jodeci at this time. |
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| At age 16, DeVante ran away to Minneapolis to get a job in Prince's |
| organization, but was refused. He returned to Charlotte, where he wrote |
| a song and recorded JoJo singing it. The two planned on going to New |
| York to shop the demo around by themselves, but both K-Ci and Dalvin |
| decided to tag along at the last minute. By the time they got to New |
| York, they had demo recordings of 29 songs, which they brought to the |
| offices of Uptown Entertainment. They were almost rejected, but rapper |
| Heavy D overheard the tape and talked Uptown president Andre Harrell |
| into hearing the group. Harrell was impressed, and just like that, |
| Jodeci signed a recording contract. In 1991, they recorded Forever My |
| Lady, which featured the gold single "Come and Talk to Me" and went on |
| to sell over three million copies. A minor feud resulted over the band's |
| follow-up album, Diary of a Mad Band; Jodeci, unhappy with their |
| treatment by Uptown, flirted with the idea of leaving for Dr. Dre's |
| Death Row Records, which resulted in almost zero promotion for their new |
| album. It didn't matter much, as Diary went platinum. The group's |
| troubles got worse in 1993; DeVante and K-Ci were involved in an |
| incident with a woman K-Ci met at a club and brought back to DeVante's |
| apartment. The woman filed charges against the two, saying that K-Ci had |
| threatened her and fondled her breast, while DeVante pointed a gun at |
| her. Both pleaded guilty, but that wasn't all; shortly afterwards, |
| DeVante's house was robbed of over 160,000 dollars in jewelry and |
| clothes as the singer was held with guns in his mouth and at the back of |
| his head. |
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| Jodeci's third album, The Show, the After Party, the Hotel, was released |
| in the summer of 1995. DeVante also was afforded the opportunity to work |
| with Al Green, one of his idols, writing and producing the song "Could |
| This Be the Love." |
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