Chicago R&B Music Experience

Throughout his 20+ year career, Tank has garnered over six #1 hits and has written and produced for names like Aaliyah, Chris Brown, Jamie Foxx, Alicia Keys, Beyonce, Kelly Rowland, and more. From his first hit single, “Maybe I Deserve,” Tank has been able to touch listeners that have garnered him a cult following with releases like “Slowly,” “Please Don’t Go,” and “I Can’t Make You Love Me.” In 2021, Tank celebrated the long-overdue streaming debut of his landmark first three solo albums, 2001’s RIAA gold-certified, #1 debut, FORCE OF NATURE, 2002’s ONE MAN, and 2007’s chart-topping, GRAMMY® Award-nominated SEX, LOVE & PAIN. Rolling Stone acknowledged the historic streaming premiere with an exclusive interview with Tank, writing, “For the first time, fans will also be able to travel through his catalog in reverse, rewinding from 2021 to 2000.” He has continued to expand his world. It encompasses the R&B Money Podcast and YouTube reality show Babbs to the Bone in addition to acting in films such as Lifetime’s Lust: A Seven Deadly Sins Story—which Bishop T.D. Jakes executive produced. Simultaneously, he’s growing the R&B Money label, serving as home to Feather and more.

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Tamar Braxton's entry into the music industry came through her five-member sibling group, the Braxtons, which featured older sisters Traci, Trina, Towanda, and, most notably, Toni. The quartet released one single, the number 79 Billboard R&B single "Good Life," for Arista in 1990. The group was dropped, but Toni was subsequently signed by LaFace and featured her sisters as part of her backing group. Minus Toni and Traci, the Braxtons signed to Atlantic and released the moderately successful So Many Ways in 1996; a Masters at Work remix of their Diana Ross cover, "The Boss," topped Billboard's club chart.

Tamar eventually left the group to establish a solo career on the Dreamworks label. After a false start, Tamar released a self-titled album in 2000 that placed two singles on the charts, including the Top 30 R&B hit "If You Don't Wanna Love Me," co-written by Christopher "Tricky" Stewart and Xscape's LaTocha Scott. She continued to perform background vocals for Toni's albums and was briefly signed to Casablanca -- an association that did not pan out. She took part in the reality series Braxton Family Values and Tamar & Vince and signed to Epic. Her December 2012 single "Love and War" peaked at number five on the R&B/Hip-Hop chart and preceded her album of the same title, released the following September. It debuted at number two on the Billboard 200. Only two months later, she released the holiday album Winter Loversland. Three Grammy nominations for Love and War and its title track followed shortly after that. As she maintained her reality television profile, she recorded her third proper studio album, Calling All Lovers, which was released in 2015. In the summer of 2017, Braxton issued the single "My Man" in advance of her album, I Know Who I Am as a Woman.

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Since her aptly titled debut album, Rebellious Soul, K. Michelle has consistently offered her fans her pain, her desires, her challenges, and her love without a filter…and she’s okay with that. For almost a decade K. Michelle has been a vocalist whose imprint and contribution to R&B is in alignment with not only her influences but singers whose artistry has the ability to connect to the listener’s soul. K. Michelle’s body of work is a testament to her experiences over time and a sonic journal that has chronicled her growth. Past aside, she is presently poised to speak her latest truth on her self proclaimed last R&B project, I’m the Problem. It boldly frames what she has now come to understand as her vantage point as she enters the next chapter of her career and her life. I’m the Problem is an affirmation. And much like she started her career, she continues to stand in her confidence while laying her heart bare to have a conversation with her fans about why being the problem isn’t always a negative. It’s self-care. Regardless of what the next album is defined as, I'm the Problem is unapologetically R&B. It is among the lexicon of what happens when an artist can write about life over instrumentation. Through this offering K. Michelle, simply being Kimberly Michelle, is an alpha female and a country girl who idolizes Dolly Parton and Whitney Houston, loves Morgan Wallen, cries to Mary J. Blige’s music and wants her fans to feel good about the music she makes.

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October London is an old-soul singer and songwriter whose smooth, heartfelt vocals recall R&B giants of the past like Sam Cooke and especially Marvin Gaye. London, a native of South Bend, Indiana, arrived in July 2016 with a featured role on "Revolution," the triumphant finale of Snoop Dogg's Coolaid. Later that month, London made his proper solo debut with "Black Man in America," a bluesy retro-soul single filled with anguish, through veteran producer Jazze Pha's Cadillac Music label. The song's parent release, an EP titled Color Blind: Love, arrived three months later and featured a duet with Faith Evans. "KDB (Kisses Down Below)," a contemporary club track recorded with BCANIC, was out by year's end. London's output through only the first half of 2017 included second EP Color Blind: Hate & Happiness, an appearance on Snoop's Neva Left, and the understated full-length Not Your Average Album.

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Founded by group member Michael Keith and groomed by Sean “Puffy” Combs, the Atlanta-based group 112, had a meteoric rise that solidified them as the hottest R&B group of their time. Their debut, album “112” (1996) went double Platinum and gave us hit records like “Cupid” and “Only You”, which featured memorable features from the late, great Notorious B.I.G while also introducing us to then newcomer on the scene, and Bad Boy label mate, Mase. Proving that lightening can in fact be caught in the bottle, the group quickly followed up their debut with yet another double Platinum offering. “Room 112” dropped just two years later and featured records like “Come See Me” and “Anywhere”

The Grammy-winners debuted “Spend It All” during a Memorial Day VERZUZ battle to over 300 thousand fans and a flurry of thumbs up and fire emojis from celebrity friends like Diddy, Stevie J, Marion Winans, Keri Hilson and more. The pair were declared victorious on scorecards from both Billboard.com and Revolt.tv after the legendary group went head-to-head with Jagged Edge, garnering over 6.5 million media impressions. Not letting quarantine keep them from delivering for the fans, 112 spent the majority of quarantine in the recording studio, fine-tuning their new project to honor the female fans that have kept their legacy going strong for 25 years.

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SILK is best known for their hit singles, “Freak Me” which reached number-one on the US Billboard Hot 100, and “Happy Days” from their debut album, Lose Control. Another hit from Lose Control, “Girl U For Me”, helped the album reach double platinum status. They later had success with singles such as “I Can Go Deep”, “Hooked on You”, “Don’t Rush”, “If You” (released February 23, 1999) “Meeting in My Bedroom”, and “We’re Calling You”. In 1994, Silk won Album Of The Year for Lose Control at the Soul Train Music Awards. 

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Along with the likes of Dru Hill and Jagged Edge, Next were part of a late-'90s contemporary R&B class that combined a gospel background, suggestive lyrics, multi-part harmonies, and slick productions with stylistic cues taken from Jodeci and R. Kelly. From 1997 through 2000, the trio placed four singles within the Top 20 of the Billboard Hot 100, including the chart-topping "Too Close" and number seven hit "Wifey." After two albums for major-label Arista, including the multi-platinum 1997 debut Rated Next, the group moved to Clive Davis' post-Arista venture J Records, where they released a third album prior to a rift in 2003. The original members released new material 15 years later, following an acrimonious split and some false restarts.

Robert "RL" Huggar and Marlon "Shilo" Benjamin met fellow vocalists and brothers Terry "T-Low" Brown and Raphel "Tweety" Brown through musician Reverend James Grear. Formed in 1992 as Strate4ward, the Minneapolis, Minnesota-based vocal quartet was mentored by Grear and Sounds of Blackness' Ann Nesby. Following some local performances, Benjamin was ousted from the group, renamed Next by RL. RL, T-Low, and Tweet then made a demo produced by Tony "Prof-T" Tolbert and Lo-Key?'s Lance Alexander. The recording reached Naughty by Nature's Keir "KayGee" Gist, who promptly arranged a showcase for Clive Davis. This resulted in a deal with Davis' Arista label. Next made their debut with "Butta Love," co-produced by Tolbert, Alexander, Gist, Darren Lighty, and the Beatminerz' Walt "Mr. Walt" Dewgarde. The ballad entered the Billboard R&B/hip-hop chart in September 1997 -- eventually reaching number four -- and was followed later that month by the full-length Rated Next. The album's success was boosted and sustained with a couple additional singles co-produced by Gist and Lighty. "Too Close," memorable for its dance groove as much as its bawdy hook, reached the top of the Hot 100. The album's third single, "I Still Love You," went Top Five R&B/hip-hop.

In June 2000, a month after Rated Next received a double-platinum certification from the RIAA, Next issued their follow-up album, Welcome II Nextasy. With Gist and Lighty still in their corner, the group hit the pop Top Ten again with "Wifey." The parent album didn't have the longevity of the debut but was certified gold within a month of release. During subsequent downtime, Next were featured on Jaheim's Top Ten R&B/hip-hop hit "Anything," and RL recorded a solo album, RL:Ements, for Clive Davis' then new J label. RL's set was only eight months old when, in December 2002, Next followed suit on J with The Next Episode. The album was barely promoted, with "Imagine That," produced by Gist, Lighty, and Eddie F, the lone single to chart. Shortly thereafter, financial and creative misgivings came to a head. The group requested and received release from Davis' label, and Tweet departed. Tweet returned several years later, though he hadn't missed much. RL was out of the picture by the time T-Low, Tweet, and new vocalist Aaron Deponce recorded the single "Leaving with Me." By the time that song was available in 2014, Deponce was no longer in the group. RL eventually returned, and in 2018 the original three members of Next independently released the characteristically salacious "Want It."

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