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Bell Biv DeVoe To Unleash 'The Hot Sh-t,' Tapes Video In Los Angeles
10/09/2001 12:00 PM, Yahoo! Music
Billy Johnson Jr
(10/9/01, 12 p.m. ET) -- Nineties hip-hop/R&B group BBD (Bell Biv DeVoe), comprising New Edition members Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins, and Ronnie DeVoe, spent the weekend in Los Angeles taping the video for "The Hot Sh-t," the first release from its album Beat And Melodies, scheduled to be released December 4 on Universal Records.
When LAUNCH spoke to group member Bell last spring, he said he expected the album to include production from Rockwilder, Buckwild, Jagged Edge, and original BBD contributors Spiderman and Freeze, and Wolfe and Epic.
Bell added that the group's sound, a hip-hop and R&B hybrid popularized by early '90s singles "Poison," "Do Me!," and "When Will I See You Smile Again?", has evolved. "With the way we're coming back right now is with the same flavor, same vibe that we've always had. It's just 2001 now, as apposed to 1990 or 1993," Bell told LAUNCH. "It's still very innovative. Still hip-hop with the R&B feel, and all of that. It's much more funkier and flier now."
The group's last album, Hootie Mack, was released in 1993. Bell said the trio took such a long hiatus in order to get its business in order. "One of the reasons we were kinda off for so long was because our situation as far as business and legal wasn't right," Bell said. "We were able to move Bell Biv DeVoe over to Universal, Biv 10. We were able to see a better business side on the back end than we were ever able to before."
-- Billy Johnson Jr., Los Angeles
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