How come Ginuwine didn't become a bigger star?

[HARLEM AL]

What do mean?

G was a huge R&B artist.

 

[Craig Mack]

Ginuwine came out with hit after hit after hit

 

[IllmaticDelta]

That album was TRASH, the singles were the only good songs on there

agreed

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Ginuwine came out with hit after hit after hit

 

[IllmaticDelta]

I

Truthfully, Sisquo was bigger than Ginuwine.

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Thong Song was huge but generally speaking, he wasn't.

 

[RTF]

Thong Song was huge but generally speaking, he wasn't.

Lies. That Sisqo album sold like 5 million. Incomplete went to #1 on Billboard. Unleash the Dragon the single got a little urban spin.
He was on that DMX joint. That Lil Kim thing too.

 

[IllmaticDelta]

Lies. That Sisqo album sold like 5 million. Incomplete went to #1 on Billboard. Unleash the Dragon the single got a little urban spin.
He was on that DMX joint. That Lil Kim thing too.

yes, because of Thong Song but outside of that, he wasn't really a bigger solo artist

Sisqo

Ginuwine

 

[satam55]

Truthfully, Sisquo was bigger than Ginuwine.

Thong Song was huge but generally speaking, he wasn't.

Lies. That Sisqo album sold like 5 million. Incomplete went to #1 on Billboard. Unleash the Dragon the single got a little urban spin.
He was on that DMX joint. That Lil Kim thing too.

yes, because of Thong Song but outside of that, he wasn't really a bigger solo artist

Sisqo

Ginuwine

Sisqo was definitely a bigger Pop Star than Ginuwine back in 2000-2001. But I don't know if I would say he was bigger solo R&B star than Ginuwine.

 

[satam55]

His music was very RnB. I think he was older. I don't think he dances (does he dance?).

Yes, Ginuwine danced. Go watch the music videos from his first 2 or 3 albums. He was the 1 that brought dancing back to R&B.

 

[MufasaChoppa]

ginuwine was big tho

 

[Big Boss]

 

[Big Boss]

Ginuwine came out with hit after hit after hit

 

[re'up]

Awww man I had that same pattern silver chain in middle school...like 3 of them, and the best one was 30" lol

 

[Fani Willis fan]

He was on, better question is why devante didnt pop like that

 

[Homeboy Runny-Ray]

I look back at Ginuwine in his prime and I seriously don't understand why he didn't become a bigger star. He made good music for the most part. He had all the intangibles to be as big of a star as Usher. He was probably equally talented and he had sex appeal. I was thinking that maybe it was him having a good portion of his music revolve around sex, but then I thought well usher basically did the same thing and that's going back to his debut album.

So what did he do wrong that Usher did right?

two different types of artists. its like comparing monica to brandy or SWV to TLC.

usher was more crossover & pop-friendly, and had a much bigger machine behind him.
Ginuwine was str8 r&b and geared soley towards black listeners, altho white girls bumped his chit too.

Ginuwine was the biggest male r&b act outside of r.kelly for a while. so he did what was intended. he just unfortunately couldn't keep it together upstairs, when all the bad stuff kept happening in his life.