Album: “Dru Hill”

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Dru Hill: Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, Larry "Jazz" Anthony, Jr., Mark "Sisqo" Andrews, James "Woody" Green (vocals). <p>Additional personnel includes: Triip (rap vocals); Nate-Love, Ralph B. Stacy (various instruments); Frank Camdel (guitar); Kim Jordan, Stanley Brown, Benjamin Love (keyboards); Allen "Grip" Smith (keyboards, programming); Ronnie Garrett, Lance Hinesman, Zack Scott (bass); Nathaniel Townsley (drums); Spike (percussion); Bobby Crawford, Daryl Simmons, Michael Aharon, Big Mike, Tom Salta (programming). <p>Producers include: Nokio, Stanley Brown, Keith Sweat, Buttnaked Tim Dawg, Terence Dudley. <p>Engineers include: Chris Lighty, Russell Elevado, Mike Tarsia. <p>Dru Hill is a new-jack soul quartet that follows mentor Keith Sweat's lead on its debut album. Paeans to Herculean late-night exploits and calls of soul-cleaning devotion are interspersed over old-fashioned soul licks, delivered with modern R&B technology. At times, as on "Tell Me," the low and high roads to a heart co-mingle in a fashion that would make Prince envious. But Dru Hill seldom reaches the Minneapolitan's funky musical raunch. Instead, Sisqo, Woody, Nokio and Jazz choose to be smooth like butter: all rich harmonies, laid-back finger snaps and synthesized harps.