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This is Jagged Edge, the veteran R&B quartet responsible for such late '90s and '00s baby-making standards as "Let's Get Married," "I Gotta Be," and "Where The Party At."
Principal players in Jermaine Dupri's once-mighty So So Def crew, Brandon and Brian Casey, Richard Wingo and Kyle Norman have sold over eight million albums and been nominated for a Grammy in a career spanning 17 years. The group's eighth and latest album, J.E. Heartbreak II, released last month, is both a sequel to its 2000 double-platinum sophomore LP J.E. Heartbreak and an ode to the kind of purist R&B that its members feel has been lost in translation as popular music becomes increasingly hybridized.
"A lot of R&B artists out now want to appeal to a hip-hop audience — it's almost like they're making hip-hop songs with melody," says lead singer/songwriter Brandon Casey. "There's nothing wrong with that, but the point of Rhythm and Blues is the emotion. If you take the emotion out of it, it's not Rhythm and Blues. We wanted to put the emotion back into it."
Jagged Edge.
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