![]() , Who wanna see y’all three? I wanna see New Edition! All this breaking up, Bobby solo, Ralph doing his thing, now y’all…what happened to New Edition?!”īBD’s sound and image was going for something harder than what New Edition or even Bobby Brown had done up to that point. “I was like, Y’all gonna put this out? He was like, Yeah man, me, Ronnie and Rick, we going to do a group called BBD. And put in a tape of the demo of ‘Poison.’ No disrespect, I love the record now, but when I heard the demo I swore it was the worst thing I ever heard in my life.” It was me, Mike Bivins and Dana Dane, we were going to a club, somewhere. “The lyrics that ended up making the record were rhyme,” Kwame would tell Hip-Hop Wired in 2015. Rapper/producer Kwame ghostwrote some of the raps in “ Poison,” and he admitted that he wasn’t impressed with the idea of Bell Biv DeVoe as a group-or their soon-to-be-hit. Of course, no one was expecting much from the three former New Edition members who’d famously stayed in the background for much of that group’s tenure. If New Edition was going on hiatus for Tresvant to start his solo career in earnest (as Gill refocused on his own new album with former MCA head Jheryl Busby over at Motown), why not try to do their own thing? Bivins had been brimming with ideas and was eager to try them out in a new format. On the suggestion of Jam & Lewis, Bell, Bivins, and DeVoe decided to form a trio.
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