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

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  • Boyz

    Votes: 71 93.4%
  • Jodeci

    Votes: 5 6.6%

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Boyz II men had way more crossover appeal.
Its hard for those that came up in the late 90s/early 2000s and after to understand this concept, as the crossover flipped. Pop acts were trying to be more urban. Timberlake was rocking fukking cornrows. Miley twerking everywhere. Gwen Stefani lowkey rapping and singing over Isley samples. List goes on. It went from rapper looking to get on a song with pop acts to blow up to pop acts looking to get a rapper on their song to blow up. Black music became the dominant go to form. Add to that that technology and formats changed. It was a totally different world in the early 90s and before.
 

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I just downloaded Forever My Lady for old times sake off of Apple Music and notice that the album has Devante looking like he’s giving K-Ci a handjob. Such an iconic cover but some of y’all coli members got me looking at stuff with an unnecessary evaluation. :snoop:
 

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I just downloaded Forever My Lady for old times sake off of Apple Music and notice that the album has Devante looking like he’s giving K-Ci a handjob. Such an iconic cover but some of y’all coli members got me looking at stuff with an unnecessary evaluation. :snoop:
He’s holding him close, keeping him warm… this is ecstasy
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Also, never forget that B2M got 1/5th of they ass whupped on 2300 Jackson street before they decided to stick to that Motown friendly cardigan and colgate smiles image.
 
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