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The best of the late-'90s R&B crooning quartets ups the musical ante on their sophomore album, lacing the silky-smooth grooves with splashes of street-tough shouts that are meant to antagonize as much as they are to seduce. And for a good deal of Enter the Dru, the formula works. There's a gutsy edge to the songs here (especially the hard-knocking "How Deep Is Your Love") that make one-time peers like Boyz II Men sound like the soulless R&B robots they are. Even when they get all warm and cozy with Babyface on the potentially mushy "These Are the Times" (in spite the absurdity of the straight-faced line "Tear you up in little pieces/Swallow you like Reese's Pieces"), Dru Hill slice into the section of '90s soul music that crosses bedroom come-ons with classic street savvy (and nervy beats) without sounding at all whipped.
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Larry Gold, Conductor, Artist - Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - Orchestra, Orchestra, Artist - Jon Smeltz, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Edge, ComposerLyricist - Sisqo, Conductor, Producer, Artist, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Dave Cortez, Producer, Co-Producer - Pascal Volberg, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - Orchestra, Orchestra, Artist - Storm, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Jon Smeltz, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - The Edge, ComposerLyricist - Sisqo, Conductor, Producer, Artist, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Dave Cortez, Producer, Co-Producer - Chinky Brown Eyes, FeaturedArtist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tamir Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - Reggie Noble, ComposerLyricist - Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Cousins, ComposerLyricist - Warryn "Smiley" Campbell, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dutch, Producer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer
℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Tamir Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - George Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - Ira Gershwin, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Method Man, FeaturedArtist, ComposerLyricist - James Carter, ComposerLyricist - Richard Cousins, ComposerLyricist - Dutch, Producer - Sisqo, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Jazz, Producer, Co-Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Cousins, ComposerLyricist - Dutch, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - L. Anthony, ComposerLyricist - Dru Hill, MainArtist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Tamir Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Cousins, ComposerLyricist - Warryn "Smiley" Campbell, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Richard Cousins, ComposerLyricist - Dutch, Producer - Sisqo, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Daryl Simmons, Producer, ComposerLyricist - THOM "TK" KIDD, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dru Hill, MainArtist
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Mark Andrews, ComposerLyricist - Warryn "Smiley" Campbell, Producer - Sisqo, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - James "Woody" Green, ComposerLyricist - Bonzai, Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Rafael Brown, ComposerLyricist - Ralph B. Stacy, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Sisqo, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Thom Russo, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Warryn "Smiley" Campbell, Producer, ComposerLyricist - Dru Hill, MainArtist - James "Woody" Green, ComposerLyricist - Woody, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Warryn "Smiley" Campbell, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Dru Hill, MainArtist - James "Woody" Green, ComposerLyricist - Woody, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Roche, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Diane Warren, ComposerLyricist - MICK GUZAUSKI, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - David W. Foster, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Sisqo, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Guy Roche, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Tamir Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - Phil Weatherspoon, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Damon Thomas, Producer, Keyboards, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer, ComposerLyricist - Greg Phillinganes, Piano, AssociatedPerformer - Michael Thompson, Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Alex Al, Bass Guitar, AssociatedPerformer - Jon Gass, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Paul Boutin, Engineer, StudioPersonnel - KENNETH "BABYFACE" EDMONDS, ComposerLyricist - Babyface, Producer, Keyboards, Drum Programming, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - E' Lyk, Assistant Mixer, StudioPersonnel
℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Daryl Simmons, Producer - Terry Callier, ComposerLyricist - THOM "TK" KIDD, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Leon Wade, ComposerLyricist
℗ 1998 The Island Def Jam Music Group
Tamir Ruffin, ComposerLyricist - MANNY MARROQUIN, Mixer, StudioPersonnel - Montell Jordan, ComposerLyricist - Dutch, Producer - Sisqo, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer - Dru Hill, MainArtist - Anthony "Schappell" Crawford, ComposerLyricist - Nokio The N-Tity, Producer, Recording Arranger, AssociatedPerformer
℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
Album review
The best of the late-'90s R&B crooning quartets ups the musical ante on their sophomore album, lacing the silky-smooth grooves with splashes of street-tough shouts that are meant to antagonize as much as they are to seduce. And for a good deal of Enter the Dru, the formula works. There's a gutsy edge to the songs here (especially the hard-knocking "How Deep Is Your Love") that make one-time peers like Boyz II Men sound like the soulless R&B robots they are. Even when they get all warm and cozy with Babyface on the potentially mushy "These Are the Times" (in spite the absurdity of the straight-faced line "Tear you up in little pieces/Swallow you like Reese's Pieces"), Dru Hill slice into the section of '90s soul music that crosses bedroom come-ons with classic street savvy (and nervy beats) without sounding at all whipped.
© Michael Gallucci /TiVo
About the album
- 1 disc(s) - 17 track(s)
- Total length: 01:05:36
- Main artists: Dru Hill
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Def Jam Recordings
- Genre: Pop/Rock Pop
© 1998 Island Records Inc. ℗ 1998 UMG Recordings, Inc.
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