Was that the case for your group?īryan Abrams: I’m still having to hire attorneys and go to court to do things to help find money that was misdirected or straighten out the percentages on our writers because we wrote a lot of our songs that we had as hits. YouKnowIGotSoul: I know a lot of R&B artists from the 90’s experienced bad contracts because they didn’t really know anything about the industry. It was hard work and it was a lot different than what we expected. It was a dream come true and it was a blessing. Everyone loved it and it was a great time. Everyone got along exactly the same and I think that’s when R&B became the mainstream music. We felt like we had something that was unique because of the different races and if there was racism in the 90’s, I must have lived in a bubble because there wasn’t any. At that point I was still in shock, but I knew I made the right decision. When “I Adore (Mi Amor)” came out as a single and there was a photo, we started getting noticed. The single was popular and we worked so hard, but nobody believed us when we told them that it was us. When “I Wanna Sex You Up” took off and there was no photo of us on the cover so nobody knew who we were, it was killing us. What I did worry was if I made the right decision and I knew in my heart that I did because those were my brothers. I cried about it at the airport and management wasn’t too happy, but they said “If you want to stay with the group, we’ll have to work on getting you guys a deal”.
Those were my brothers and we grew up together. I was a team player and I didn’t want to leave them. Sure! I was torn because I wanted to bring my guys with me. He wanted to change my name to Bryan Parks and he wanted me to be the white Al B. He said he wanted to sign me, but not the group. Sure! and they were hitting at that time. What it was was that they had a meeting for me with Andre Harrell. One thing I didn’t mention yet was that about a year before we got signed, our management flew me out by myself because they wanted me to supposedly re-record some vocals and the group was a little nervous because they didn’t know I was flying by myself. That must have been a crazy time for you.īryan Abrams: It was super exciting. YouKnowIGotSoul: The group ended up going multi-platinum with the debut album with a bunch of hit records on there. We started the Club MTV Tour, so we’re on a major tour and we’re barely into being 20 years old. When you talk about fast and being thrust into it, we went from struggling and not knowing if it was going to happen to the song being a hit single and then finishing the album in two weeks. We put the single out and we had two weeks at that point to finish an album.
#Color me bad album how to#
The label came back and said “We have to release this as a single” but they were still worried about the marketing and how to do it, so that’s why there is no picture of us on the single because they didn’t know how people would see us.
What was hard was that they weren’t going to release it as a single, but the radio stations picked it up and started playing it. That song wasn’t going to be a single and we were just happy to be on an album with some other artists that we had been listening to over the years like Queen Latifah and Guy. What was it like being in the music industry at that time?īryan Abrams: We recorded “I Wanna Sex You Up” and we put it on the soundtrack for “New Jack City”. YouKnowIGotSoul: Take me back to those early days of Color Me Badd and getting signed. He most recently released his debut solo single “Because Of You” so we talk about the creation of that single and what we can expect from Bryan in the near future. We also talk about Bryan’s struggle with alcohol over the course of his career as well his road to recovery. We talked to Bryan about all the success the group had in the industry as well as some of the shortcomings that they experienced. The group had massive success during the New Jack Swing era in the early 90’s with hits such as “I Wanna Sex You Up” and “I Adore (Mi Amor)”. We had a chance to talk to Bryan Abrams from the 90’s R&B group Color Me Badd.
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