Your favorite solo effort of NEW EDITION members? Why isn't Ralph a bigger star?

[mson]

 

[Vandelay]

Besides not having a top 10 single on the year...I think his sound didn't really fit the demographic he was going after.

Sensitivity was the shyt, but it wasn't that megahit you needed back then to pop.

 

[feelosofer]

Ralph dropped 2 years too late. He should have dropped in 88 and the timing would have been perfect.

 

[⠀X ⠀]

Me and the crew used to do her...

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

He shouldn't have waited to go solo. Timing is everything. When it's time to go it's time to go.

Had he dropped his solo album back in 87/88 like he was supposed to he would've been bigger, but the game had changed when that first album

R&b was taking a more provocative direction & he came thru tryna be suave & gentlemen like.

Meanwhie the rest of the group was going edgier/more sex driven.

Johnny Gill had the quietstorm voice so he didn't need to gyrate on stage.

He was doing something else

"STROKE BABY !!! STROKE STROKE STROKE!!"

 

[Shorty K]

 

[Spiritual Stratocaster]

The reason Ralph's shyt didn't blow is because his shyt sounded like a New Edition album. With Ralph being the lead singer of NE, we identify his voice with that sound and sucker for love subject matter. All the other dudes came with a new sound on their solo shyt. Bobby was on some lite funk, Rick James, Jr. shyt. Johnny could hold down the mature shyt better than Rizz because he had the voice for it all day. nikka ate those slow jam tracks, then held his own with the uptempo joints. BBD took New Jack Swing and ran wild with it. So for the NE fan, each NE offshoot had something new to offer that they hadn't heard before, except Ralph's. People say he waited too late. Nah. Had he dropped that album earlier, the results would have been the same. I take that back. If he woulda dropped that album in 1986 after Bob left, it woulda blew crazy. But 1987/88??? Nope. Ralph didnt need to try to act hard or act extra freaky, but what he shoulda done was dig deeper and talk about his life and his world. Something more than just "I love you girl Never do you wrong Make you happy" shyt.

This

Gift and kinda a curse Ralph has those teenager like vocals..

 

[Methodical]

you said Solo so gotta go with Bobby Brown. He was the king of R&B

BBD isn't a damn solo, it's a group

 

[Methodical]

The reason Ralph's shyt didn't blow is because his shyt sounded like a New Edition album. With Ralph being the lead singer of NE, we identify his voice with that sound and sucker for love subject matter. All the other dudes came with a new sound on their solo shyt. Bobby was on some lite funk, Rick James, Jr. shyt. Johnny could hold down the mature shyt better than Rizz because he had the voice for it all day. nikka ate those slow jam tracks, then held his own with the uptempo joints. BBD took New Jack Swing and ran wild with it. So for the NE fan, each NE offshoot had something new to offer that they hadn't heard before, except Ralph's. People say he waited too late. Nah. Had he dropped that album earlier, the results would have been the same. I take that back. If he woulda dropped that album in 1986 after Bob left, it woulda blew crazy. But 1987/88??? Nope. Ralph didnt need to try to act hard or act extra freaky, but what he shoulda done was dig deeper and talk about his life and his world. Something more than just "I love you girl Never do you wrong Make you happy" shyt.

Interesting....that sound about right.

 

[Methodical]

He was doing something else

"STROKE BABY !!! STROKE STROKE STROKE!!"

 

[QU Hectic]

I thought Ralph’s solo debut was a gem, although a lot of people on here disagree

 

[paperbag]

The single of sensitivity was the first music I bought with my own money. I think the cassette was white, but I'm not sure.

 

[Sbp]

Keith Sweat - Make it last forever
Al B Sure! - In effect mode
Guy - Guy
Bobby Brown - Don't be cruel
Ralph Tresvant - Ralph Tresvant

One of these albums is not like the others. Like I said it was not Ralph's image because Al and Keith were on that gentleman wave too Guy were supposed to be players Bob was a goon that women couldn't resist. It was the material. Rizz is the man but that first album needed to Off the Wall levels for him leapfrog to the top of the RNB game and breakthrough on the pop side.

 

[blaccbeard]

I still remember Ralph being on the beginning of this cheesy ass "support our soldiers" song they used to play all the time when i was a youngin living that military brat life while my pops was off in the war. As a youngin i loved this fukkin song tho, cause there was some amazing legendary singers singin their ass of in it, i mean EVERYBODY was in this video, Fresh Prince was even in it lol. They also played clips of local soldiers with the music video and my pops was in one of the clips and we would get so hype every time. But now that i'm older i realize just how fukkin cheesy this song was lol. Also lol@that fake ass white Stevie Wonder wannabe at the end, that part always made me laugh.

 

[get these nets]

By 1990 all the members of New Edition have dropped a solo album.

Never been able to find the clip, but a def jam comedian ended his solo career

Clowned the shyt out of "sensitivity" song....it was a wrap after that

Guy.....and Teddy Riley's other acts had changed the landscape, so was just bad timing for RT.

"Right Ted?.............we outta here..."