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Featuring R.L. Huggar and brothers Terry “T-Low” Dark brown and Raphael “Tweet” Dark brown, modern R&B trio Following created in Minneapolis, Minnesota once they had been introduced from the Brown’s uncle, a gospel choir movie director. Created in 1992, these were first referred to as Straight4ward, with one point had been managed by Seems of Blackness’ Ann Nesby. Naughty by Nature’s KayGee, nevertheless, required the group to his Arista-affiliated Divine Mill label. In Sept 1997, Next’s debut solitary, the R. Kelly-like sluggish jam “Butta Like” — made by KayGee, Lo-Key?’s Lance Alexander, Tony Tolbert, and Darren Lighty — debuted on Billboard’s Hot R&B Singles graph and finally reached number 4. By the end of this month, they released the single’s mother or father album, Rated Following, which went dual platinum on the effectiveness of follow-up singles “As well Close” (a breezy midtempo monitor that topped the R&B and Sizzling 100 graphs) and “I Still Like You” (another Best Five R&B ballad). Welcome II Nextasy, released in June 2000, had not been as well-known but included “Wifey,” the group’s second number 1 R&B solitary. This propelled the recording to gold position. As the group required a rest, RL documented the moderately effective RL:Ements for Clive Davis’ after that fresh J label. The group also visited J, where they released their third recording, The Next Show, in Dec 2002. Its lone charting solitary, “SUPPOSE,” didn’t split the R&B Best 60. Once they had been fallen from J, they briefly aligned with 50 Cent’s G-Unit along with Matthew Knowles’ Music Globe, so when they kept occupied with single activity, they plotted the producing of a 4th album, tentatively entitled Music 101.