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Sisqo: Dru Hill
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Sisqo has ... run into troubles in the recording industry. Similar to the problems his touring partners *NSYNC experienced, Sisqo and the band he co-founded, Dru Hill, had to go to court to get out of their recording contract. In this case though, there was charges of violence, where Dru Hill claimed that an Island employee allegedly hit Dru Hill's manager with a pool cue, setting the suit in motion. Compounding Island's problems was an executive at Polygram, Eric Kronfeld, who's racist remarks virtually lost any chance Polygram had of winning the case. Kronfeld was asked why he hired the individual who alledgedly hit their manager with a criminal record, and he responded by saying that if he didn't hire African-Americans with criminal records, "then there would be virtually no African-American employees in our society or in our industry."
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Not being taken seriously is Sisqo's biggest pet peeve. He wants to be a pop culture icon, yet every time he turns around people keep referring to the "Thong Song" provocateur as a one-hit-wonder. Never mind that his slinky ballad "Incomplete" recently topped the Billboard singles charts. Forget the fact that his R&B group Dru Hill has released two multi-platinum albums. When it comes to critical respect, Sisqo sometimes feels like Rodney Dangerfield.
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Unleash the Dragon earned Sisqo the awards he missed out on with Dru Hill. He won two Radio Music awards, six Billboard awards, a Source award, an MTV Video Music Award, and a World Music Award, and was nominated for four Grammys and two American Music Awards. "Incomplete," a ballad off Unleash the Dragon, reached number-one on both the pop and R&B sales charts. The "Thong Song" singer ... became known for his wild style-with tattoos, piercings, shiny silver hair, and colorful fashions covered in rhinestones and his signature dragon emblem.
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Sisqo got a leg up in the music industry as a member of late-‘90s R&B sensations Dru Hill. He went solo in 1999 with the album Unleash The Dragon, which featured "The Thong Song," a novelty hit only rivaled by "Who Let The Dogs Out?" and "Mambo No. 5" in the recent stupid summer hits department. Sisqo followed that album with 2001’s Return Of The Dragon, which was a moderate success.
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Sisqo's no newcomer to the industry. In fact, his career began four years ago as the blonde-haired front man for the multiplatinum-selling group Dru Hill, leading the hit songs Tell Me, In My Bed, How Deep Is Your Love, These Are The Times, Five Steps and We're Not Making Love.
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Formed in 1995, this R&B quartet comprised Jazz, Woody, Sisqo, and Nokio -- four friends who grew up together in Baltimore. Their self-titled '96 debut fused bedroom escapades with smooth vocals and non-threatening hip-hop beats, and blew up on the strength of their first single "Tell Me." They returned in '98 with Enter The Dru. The following year Sisqo went solo, releasing Unleash The Dragon, which featured the radio-dominating smash hit "Thong Song."
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