Suge’s influence on DeVante Swing

[Pressure]

Drugs undefeated

 

[Amo Husserl]

Bingo!

That’s what I was getting at

Which coast had the real gangsters?

I can't be faded

I'm a nikka from the motherfukking street

 

[I love Latina women]

Which coast had the real gangsters?

It was gangsters on both sides but they ain’t write raps

 

[Awesome Wells]

K-Ci can't record a song about sex, for religious reasons, but he could stomp out Mary J. Blige and put her in the hospital because she wasn't following his orders?



Dude was busting Mary's ass for years and in front of mad other artists. That story sounds fictitious.

 

[Danie84]

I didn’t like that last album, but the single Every Moment was classic jodeci.

I only liked Incredibe & Sho Out

 

[I love Latina women]

I only liked Incredibe & Sho Out

And if I remember correctly, Sho Out was an old song they had in the vault and just reworked it

 

[Reality Check]

Truth.

There was a collection of unreleased demos that was online years ago, that had old references and songs on it. I downloaded it back then. I need to find that and dust those off. Devante had a lot of heat in the vault.

We were crazy about Jodeci around the way, back in the day. I don’t think any of us thought that run was gonna end in '95. It's crazy to realize it only went a few years. We've never seen anything like it since.

Thinking about it some more, I think the quick end of Jodeci was 3 fold:

1) Drugs

2) Suge going to jail in '97 and no longer having the protection he had after the robbery

And

Devante had his own Dungeon Family in Da Bassment, but his ego destroyed it. The crew splintered off and you had Timbaland, Magoo, Ginuwine, Missy, Playa, and later Tweet finding success under Timbaland. Stevie J. does his own thing as Hitmen for Puff. Darryl Pearson goes on to produce Mya's debut and other acts and links back up with Tim.

3) Everyone in that crew left and became much more successful. Ginuwine, who was doing background vocals on Danny Boy songs at the beginning of 1996, is now a star months later due to Timbo; Aaliyah's second album was a hit due to Timbo, and that collective took off except for wack ass Magoo.