Old heads, why did Boyz 2 Men have more commercial success than Jodeci

Who was bigger

  • Boyz

    Votes: 71 93.4%
  • Jodeci

    Votes: 5 6.6%

  • Total voters
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Ty Daniels

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Waiting to Exhale or Toni Btaxton first album were not for black people?

A lot of you are wilding.

These dudes be saying anything.

White people couldn't fully embrace Boyz II Men, that was why they had to create Backstreet Boys, Nsync etc...

Boyz II Men's sound, though "softer" than Jodeci's sound, is still "Too Black" for the average white person.

Boyz II Men, are BETTER SINGERS than Jodeci, PERIOD.
 

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Even though I was a youth in them days and not getting cheeks, I peeped the scene.
Boys2Men were for women still clinging to the remenants of a culture where dudes were expected to be corteous in song about looking to pull a broad's panties off, despite it all.


Joedeci got with the gods and made this shyt for women of all walks of life to know what time it was when the tape got popped in things started popping out (Pause).
You wasn't supposed to talk about wanting to fukk, fukking, or making women seem like anything other than objects of lust 'cause all the nasty/old people that was fukking like rabbits during Al Green and Teddy Pendegrass was shaking their geriatirc heads at the fact that the sexual revolution happened, their children were fukking and not ashamed to say that shyt, so...you get family friendly shyt like Boys2Men.
Not taking anything away from the songs they had..I mean, they had hits, but the difference? Joedeci wanted to fukk, Boys2men wanted to meet ya parents and eventually make them grandparents or some shyt after they accepted that nature would naturally take it's course with their approval.

 

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The age old coli argument... Jodeci was for the hood while Boyz II Men appealed to white folks
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Its funny how similar their starts were
Jodeci - established Gospel choir boys
B2M - Prep school choir/band geeks

Jodeci - discovered by Heavy D, Andre Harrell and the MCA/Uptown imprint after auditioning in their offices
B2M - discovered by Michael Bivins and the soon to be Biv Ent imprint, after auditioning at a New Edition concert

Jodeci - majority of first album already written before being signed, with some additions and oversight by Al B Sure
B2M - majority of first album written by group, with some additions and oversight by Dallas Austin

The difference was pretty much the image and the singles.... End of the Road blew tf up and they stuck to that formula, they re-release CooleyHighHarmony and the rest is history... and it has more album sales than all of Jodeci albums combined, so yes theyre the bigger group :mjlol:

K-Ci is the best lead singer from the 90s in my opinion
B2M is the best group of singers from the 90s and can still do their thing to this day

Both great in their own right, its just comes down to preference :manny:
 
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