The label/managers REALLY dropped the BALL with Ralph Tresvant

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

I mean who thought it was a good idea to be on that soft man shyt in that climate?

Sensitivity
Stone Cold Gentleman

Women get tired of that sensitive shyt at a certain age. It's like breh regressed from NE Heartbreak..Basically same type.of subject matter.. meanwhile his contemporaries are talm bout smashing hoes,grinding bytches on stage, fukking all night long,making bishes cry during sex

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Label should have put him in a young Alexander O Neal type role since there was no way he could compete with that bad boy image Bobby was living

At the same time the soft shyt wasn't gonna work unless you were all in like Babyface or had a generation voice like Luther.

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

Label should have put him in a young Alexander O Neal type role since there was no way he could compete with that bad boy image Bobby was living

At the same time the soft shyt wasn't gonna work unless you were all in like Babyface or had a generation voice like Luther.

Word..breh put himself into a box..

And lowkey I think his confidence was shot..seeing his band mates all reach superstardom meanwhile he holds off his solo career to stay in the group.

And ain't nothing worse than a nice guy who had to brag about how nice, and gentle he is

Breh Basically marketed himself to church going broads and chicks who join book clubs.

 

[DaHNIC82]

Dont be cruel being a monster hurt him

 

[Michael's Black Son]

Word..breh put himself into a box..

And lowkey I think his confidence was shot..seeing his band mates all reach superstardom meanwhile he holds off his solo career to stay in the group.

And ain't nothing worse than a nice guy who had to brag about how nice, and gentle he is

Breh Basically marketed himself to church going broads and chicks who join book clubs.

when the group split up everyone except him and Johnny went the bad boy route. Listen to those Bell Biv Devore records and the shyt is blatantly about wilding out and getting p*ssy. Them dudes were ready to shed that soft R&B image that was their bread and butter. BBD was literally the fukkery side of New Jack Swing and it worked.

Unless Ralph was ready to go the pop route or become a writer/producer, he was fukked

 

[Worthless Loser]

Agreed. His own desire to stay in New Editon and do what's best for the group screwed him. By the time he went solo, Bobby and BBD were already huge using the hip hop bad boy/pop fused image, Johnny Gill had the Luther Vandross lane covered, so there was no where for Ralph to fit unless he mirrored Bobby & BBD. Had he went solo 2 or 3 years before, his career may have turned out different.

Plus by the time Ralph album dropped, you had so much talent in single artist R&B land. Tevin Campbell was starting to make noise. Al B Sure was at his peak, Keith Sweat had the nice guy/begging lane locked up, Babyface had the simp lane locked up. You needed to have an 'A' song to break through. Ralph only had B or B+ songs.

 

[Peak]

Not for nothing but I fukked with Sensitivity

 

[010101]

he just needed to stick with it

just like in real life whores get tired & end up looking for love

ha

*

 

[null]

Keith Sweat had the nice guy/begging lane locked up, Babyface had the simp lane locked up.

those lanes

 

[Malik1time]

Agreed. His own desire to stay in New Editon and do what's best for the group screwed him. By the time he went solo, Bobby and BBD were already huge using the hip hop bad boy/pop fused image, Johnny Gill had the Luther Vandross lane covered, so there was no where for Ralph to fit unless he mirrored Bobby & BBD. Had he went solo 2 or 3 years before, his career may have turned out different.

Plus by the time Ralph album dropped, you had so much talent in single artist R&B land. Tevin Campbell was starting to make noise. Al B Sure was at his peak, Keith Sweat had the nice guy/begging lane locked up, Babyface had the simp lane locked up. You needed to have an 'A' song to break through. Ralph only had B or B+ songs.

GOODBYEEEE

 

[null]

you never go full SIMP.

babyface looked like a SIMP, acted like a SIMP but wasn't a SIMP.

jonny gill looked like a SIMP, acted like a SIMP but wasn't a SIMP.

ralph went full simp

 

[@OffHalsted]

Foot Rub R&B

 

[get these nets]

It fit his persona. The girls/women who grew up on New Edition wouldn't have bought a bad boy Ralph.

 

[NinoBrown]

His lead single was essentially a throw away Janet Jackson quiet storm beat by Jimmy Jam/Terry Lewis....then is tone imitated old Michael Jackson who was even going bad boy with his Dangerous album...

That nice guy routine just wasn't exciting enough to anyone...

Driving thru the hood knocking "Sensitivity"???? When you had "Poison", "Don't Be Cruel", plus Jodeci that took that whole bad boy w/smooth voice lane....

Ralph didn t have nothing....

 

[Amestafuu (Emeritus)]

His aura was moist