Celebrity Underrated - The Swab Story (R&B Group Ideal)

You know, I say this all the time, there was good 90s rb music in the 90s, man, good rb, there was good music in the 90s, great female and male rb

group

s that put out good music and it's sad that they just don't No I don't see or hear

group

s like that in current music, they are all solos, now there are no groups. In the 90s, they had a lot of rb boy groups that didn't really blow up, but could outperform anyone. Look, they had a group. I remember you took six portraits. profile all for one still introduction mckinney green them only who remembers the group only man there are many groups man many more groups and you know what you can't forget about the

ideal

group out of Houston, Texas now some people say

ideal

they had that frankie beverly from old school in the labyrinth brothers eisley boys to men type of vocal style their harmonies and everything mixed with a little bit of new school for jodeci and draw hill they were a quartet that you had look at the brothers cedric

swab

cotton they had like a street edge For him, the maverick mathematician Cotton, he said he was just a mysterious, laid-back type of guy and then there was his cousin Wayne P Z Perry, who was more of a romantic boy-next-door type, he says, and Jay Jay Dante Green, who was just the womanizer and they sounded great together, man, the way they combined their voices with the harmonies and everything, but you know, look, let's get into his career and what happened to Schwab, who was murdered in blood cold.

Now look first, Swab was born. and he grew up in houston, texas, he, his brother math and his cousin pz and they have been singing their entire lives since they were little and when they got to high school they ended up meeting their fourth member of the group, jay donte, and one time that they got together and started singing at and after school and all the girls loved them and said they sound good together, that's when they knew they had something and they formed a group, they said, uh, they had sung the boys a song of men, it's so hard to say.

Goodbye to yesterday on the last day of school your senior year they said the whole school was crying the girls were fainting and all everyone remembers is your last day of school it's sad man you know you'll never see everyone again more on all your Friends, it's like a happy and sad day at the same time, but anyway now after graduating, they got serious about becoming singers and started singing at local shows all over the city, shows of talents and ended up getting the opportunity to sing for Winnie Mandela. Nelson Mandela's wife who was in town at the time, after that they came up with the name of the ideal group after opening a dictionary and choosing a word and that became the name, the word she chose was ideal and they continued acting. all over the city until they ended up meeting a guy named patrick johnson who at the time was the manager of the group rb h-town and he started managing them and with his contacts he got them an audition, well in fact they sang for the president of Virgin Records on the phone and loved it and then came to Houston to see them perform and signed them to the label now with a record deal.

One of the first songs they released was for the original soundtrack of the gangster film, Inner City Blues. you make me want to scream which sounded good to me it's nice it's pretty good i liked it i mean it's not better than marvin gaye's original version in the city blues which is the classic but his version was also great now after that, although you really didn't I heard a bit more from them for a couple of years because there were more, there were newcomers to the label and during that time Virgin Records had some big artists who were doing something at the time making a lot of money for the company they had , what Janet Jackson was there, she had been there for a long time, d'angelo was there after Seven Spice Girls, she was big and many more, so they just stayed in the studio, basically, they just stayed in the studio, man, it was like the development of the artist, he remembers. how the record labels really cared about the artist, just setting them up and putting them in touch with the artist development department and you know, that's it, it was just about recording songs, practicing their dance routines and performing here and there and try to generate enthusiasm. when their time came and they were next, they were ready, that's when Virgin Records released their first single, Get Go, which peaked at number 13 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and number two on the R B charts and they were gone, that song remained on the charts. for 22 weeks it also reached number four on the r b and mainstream hip-hop playlists that appeared for 26 weeks that was my trash right there i love that song jonte austin wrote that song and brian michael cox made the beat i think they did a few songs for them on that album now after that single blew up they released their self titled debut album which was certified gold and they released their second single after that title which did well on the charts it did well. charting now, the third single title whatever reached number 11 on the rb charts and won an ass cat rhythm and soul music award.

That song was great too, by the group rb. She then wrote that one for him. You know, next my group Two Man. little mo was also singing on that song and kg for naughty by natural did the production after that right now with a gold selling album they started performing all over the world doing shows with tlc destiny's child was all the rage at the time casey and jojo um they made parents on the tv show the parkers were monique and countess vaughn and they were all on the jenny jones show soul train all at that time It was time for the second album, so they started working on their second album, but look. the guy who signed them to the uh virgin records label ended up getting fired so when the new staff came in, it happens all the time too, every time new staff comes in, they don't really want to work with you or any man, so really.

They don't want to work with them because Virgin also signed Mariah Carey and she had just signed with the label and they wanted to focus on her, so they had to clean house and let the group go. They left, but it was already fashionable, they had a gold-selling album, so a lot of record labels wanted to sign them, but the ideal was that they felt that the record companies, the offers they were giving them, for the money, the agreements and everything. It wasn't worth it, so after that they just went their separate ways and just lived life taking care of their families and everything they got married, had kids, but never broke up, although they never broke up and stayed close.

We still make music together torn up and everything and stuff like that, but on February 9, 2021, Swab was stabbed to death in broad daylight outside a food market in southwest Houston. Now the

story

goes well, they say that Swab had gone to the corner store where he usually goes. and he and a guy had gotten into it for whatever reason and him and that guy got into an argument inside and outside the convenience store and they say that guy pulled out a knife and stabbed a

swab

in his left side and then ran away from the scene. and when the paramedics came, it was too late, so they pronounced me dead, sad man, terrible man, and you know, when the family heard from the man on the news about what had happened to him, it was just devastating, man and you know , Schwab's mother, she spoke up and said, you know, soft, he's going to ride his little bike to the store to buy a cigarette or whatever and then the next thing you know he said, he gets a call and he says he can hear people say. deep down like a swab he comes here every day eh he doesn't bother anyone he's a good guy stuff like that while she was on the phone when she got that phone call and you know he's just a sad man and so is his uncle, he made a statement.

He said, uh, when he got to the scene, he saw a swab lying there, man, and there was nothing he could do but cry, sad, terrible man, and you know, after about 17 days, you know, 17 days later, the Police said someone gave them an anonymous tip that led them. they arrested a guy named andre ford so they put him in custody they arrested him andre ford he was the one who did it so you know that's basically it so keep me posted on that

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in the comments section man. crazy, you know, hyssop, 46 years old, may he rest in peace to his brother, hyssop, and prayers for his family man and the ideal group, great group, make sure to download and stream all his music too, man, and stay stay tuned for more episodes