A collaboration with revered Public Enemy production crew the Bomb Squad, Poison embodied the style and sound of hip-hop in a more convincing way than any R&B album before it. You’ve heard “ Poison” too many times, probably at a wedding or a school dance or some perennially bad episode of “Carpool Karaoke.” But Bell Biv DeVoe is more than just a song, and their debut album represents a critical leap in the evolution of R&B. Ricky Bell spoke up: “You have to listen to the music to understand what we’re talking about.” The show’s host wasn’t sure what to make of it: “And like.what does that mean?” They talked about it in every interview, including that day on BET.
BBD even had a neat little mission statement to explain their vision: “Our music is mentally hip-hop, smoothed out on the R&B tip with a pop feel appeal to it.” They stamped the slogan on their album cover and flashed it on screen during their videos. Poison was a conceptually groundbreaking pop album that reinvented the relationship between R&B and hip-hop for the ’90s. It was definitely Bell Biv DeVoe’s moment. By the end of the year, Billboard would declare BBD the biggest new pop group of 1990. Their album, also called Poison, had just dropped, and it was on its way to selling 4 million copies. This was 1990, and the trio’s debut single “Poison” was on the verge of breaking into the Top 10. “Mike keeps stressing BBD-it’s not a BBD moment,” he said. In 1991 they received a Soul Train Music Award for Best R&B/Urban Contemporary Album of the Year, Group, Band, or Duo and in 1992 they received an American Music Award for Favorite Soul/R&B Band/Duo/Group.Tresvant decided to interrupt and set it straight. The group started touring in 1990 after the release of their first album and has been on three tours, The Poison Tour from 1990 to 1991, Above the Rim Tour in 1994, and Three Stripes World Tour in 2017. They also released a remix album in 1991 and a compilation album in 2000. They went on to release three more studio albums, including Hootie Mack, BBD, and Three Stripes. The album charted at the number one spot on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop chart and sold over four million copies. They released their first studio album in 1990 titled Poison with the label MCA Records. The group’s name is a combination of the three members last names. The members of the group are Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe. Bell Biv DeVoe is an American music group that split from the group New Edition in 1989 in Boston, Massachusetts.
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