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It was discovered that the employee in question had a criminal record. In 1997, Dru Hill filed a lawsuit against Island Records, seeking a release from its contract, after an Island employee hit the group's manager, Keith Ingram, over the head with a pool cue. 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'.

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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 1998 Bill Bellamy film Def Jam's How to Be a Player. 'We're Not Making Love No More' was written and produced by star producer Babyface. Soundtracks, protégés, and controversyīetween their first and second albums, Dru Hill contributed 'We're Not Making Love No More', a #2 R&B and #13 Pop hit, to the Soul Food soundtrack. A dragon is used as a logo for the group. Blackstreet member Dave Hollister who was now pursuing a solo career originally sang on the song but after Legacy sang it for Hiram his vocals were scrapped as they recorded the song and were signed that night.Īfter the group signed to Island Records the label suggested they change their name from Legacy to Dru Hill after Druid Hill Park, a popular park on the West side of Baltimore, the name of which is pronounced 'Dru Hill' in the local Baltimore accent.

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In 1995 Hiram Hicks president of Island Black Music saw the boys perform in a talent show and immediately wanted to fly them to New York to record a song called Tell Me for a movie Eddie starring Whoopi Goldberg. They also performed briefly under the name Storm then became Legacy. Sisqo, Nokio, Jazz, and Woody continued to hone their skills working at the Fudgery.

By 1994 Fleet and Thomas split from the group to pursue other interests Larry 'Jazz' Anthony who studied as an opera student at Frederick Douglass High School joined the group. The group became a gospel group after a deal with Elektra Records fell through but eventually switched to a more commercially viable music which prompted Woody's mother to pull him out of the group but the group begged her to let him return and she reluctantly agreed to if he promised he would return to his gospel roots. Most of their early repertoire was made up of gospel music as well as an early song by the group, 'Please Remove Yo' Shoes'. The group made a name for itself by getting jobs at The Fudgery, a local fudge factory at Harborplace at Baltimore's Inner Harbor, where they started a store tradition of singing and performing to entertain guests while making fudge.

At one talent show at Morgan State University, they were discovered by local talent manager Kevin Peck and also appeared on Amateur Night at Showtime At The Apollo. Woody, Nokio, and Sisqo formed an early incarnation of the group that featured other members, including Bravette Fleet and Chris Thomas, natives of Baltimore who attended Baltimore City College, with Nokio and Woody called 14K Harmony and began performing around the Baltimore area. Ruffin, nicknamed 'Nokio' (an acronym for 'Nasty on Key in Octave') enlisted Andrews and Green (whose respective nicknames of 'Sisqó' and 'Big Woody Rock' came from their childhood) to form a singing group. Mark Andrews and James Green met each other in middle school, and both later became acquaintances of Tamir Ruffin when all three began pursuing careers in the music industry. The members of Dru Hill were natives of Baltimore, Maryland.