Biv is a good story teller. His attention to detail is impeccable

@SheTwice

11 ай бұрын

You are so so right!

@keasl7065

11 ай бұрын

Well said, I was thinking the same thing

Yo this is the most i seen bigga happy

@jman1562001

11 ай бұрын

Son reliving his childhood hearing these stories 😢😅

@tadah21

11 ай бұрын

New edition and BBD ushered in a sound of music that is still playing today all the song writers and actual music makers from the culture became in huge demand new jack swing for the win. They made actual songs love songs and dance music from same people. East coast

@BossDini

11 ай бұрын

I thought the same thing. He was smiling in the picture 😂

@kelz702

11 ай бұрын

Yea I ain’t never seen him smile this much

@2Faded247

11 ай бұрын

Forreal!

Ricky Bell is so underrated. His vocals are top notch still. He needs his flowers for real

@IENetworkTV

11 ай бұрын

yep definitely the most underrated underappreciated vocalist maybe in history

@shaunieibe2081

11 ай бұрын

And has some of the most important or memorable parts in the NE songs.

@kwamesarfo-mensah5785

11 ай бұрын

He wasn’t featured enough in the early NE albums. It’s a crime that he didn’t have more lead vocal opportunities in the early years.

@odot8148

11 ай бұрын

And he still has the voice. Dude is criminally underrated

@dreedwards6859

11 ай бұрын

Facts the vocals he did on smile again is top notch

I agree Biggah is smiling ear to ear! The most I have ever seen him happy 😊

@slikron8536

11 ай бұрын

I peeped that to . Out of all the guest they’ve had he’s having a fan moment . I ain’t mad him 😂

@FlyAwayChi

11 ай бұрын

Biggah looking like me😂😂 I love it . Michael Bivins is so legendary 🔥🔥

@omardavis1622

11 ай бұрын

Brings him back to good times. Being a kid or teenage.

Math not playing in 2023 with these legendary interviews! Our community is everything

@mrcabone

11 ай бұрын

Kid N Play up next!

@SheTwice

11 ай бұрын

Math is on 🔥!!

@carlosrob6494

11 ай бұрын

@@SheTwice 🫡

@andresparrow2971

11 ай бұрын

He has had a lot of folks I genuinely want to listen to. And I really only know of one or two times watching his rap battles…

@perrynnlynch1883

11 ай бұрын

Well said. Great comment.

Mike is telling some great stories….. This was my era

@tedcummings2489

11 ай бұрын

Well then that makes u old as shit lmao like my momma age and im not young either 😂😂😂 salute tho

@KDogduval

11 ай бұрын

All facts💯

@mayjaaudio6539

11 ай бұрын

Yessir, I’m right there with you

...True story. Biv was dating my cousin back in the day. I happen to be with one of my aunts, we stopped by my cousin's place-had no idea that Biv was going to be over there but was told he may be by later on. Walk into my cousin's living room and there he was! I was in complete shock. I was already a huge fan of New Edition from like 2nd grade. So he speaks to me and then asks if I could sing, me being extremely shy -I was like no, not really. Had no idea that he was actually putting together a group from my hometown Las Vegas... And there you have it -702. I will never forget that day, as long as I live. Lol..Biv was super cool & he treated my cousin & her family extremely well. Definitely a solid all-around gentleman. Can't wait for the full interview to post. NE 4Life 🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🖤🎶

@gregjaudon1899

11 ай бұрын

So you was in the group 702

@EricK-ir8np

11 ай бұрын

That’s 🔥🔥🔥

@tonysnow2trill44

2 ай бұрын

702 was mostly Houston girls

Bell Biv Devoe should be studied - the style, the branding, the music, the choreography, the entire marketing package is absolutely the pivot in R&B groups to fuse hip hop and R&B- led to Jodeci, Boys to Men, Jagged Edge, the list goes on

@vfrebel6166

11 ай бұрын

Yes! True Talk! They were the template. I remember rushing to get the album when it first came out and my mind was blown. I thought Poison would be the hottest joint on there and it turned out EVERY joint was HOT!!!

@Stress7820

11 ай бұрын

I 👍 agree these guys were the blueprint for a lot 90s rnb groups TLC admitted to being a female version of BBD.. this group changed how rnb groups at that time should sound.

@neweditionlive

11 ай бұрын

Agreed!!! 👏🏾👏🏾

@qwammienewsome1357

11 ай бұрын

Actually, New Edition infused R&B with HIP HOP back in the day, especially with Cool It Now...... "Why you all comin' down on me, tryna tell me what life's, supposed to be!!"

@vfrebel6166

11 ай бұрын

@@qwammienewsome1357 Yes, that's true. They rapped on Candy Girl and Popcorn Love on the first album. They also employed Popping and Locking in their step routines. While they did add Hip Hop elements, it was done in a very bubble gum way. BBD flipped the script by infusing the rawness of Hip Hop in both sound and visual style that no R&B group had done before and changed the whole landscape.

Bigga just cheesing all through this interview😂 good to see

@jman1562001

11 ай бұрын

Bigga reliving his childhood 😭.....probably wish he could go back and stay in that era

That Poison album changed R&B real talk

@heatmentouch

11 ай бұрын

NOPE! "12 Play" from R Kelly changed the game! But this album was DOPE AF 🔥🔥

@aaronsemien1350

11 ай бұрын

Also Mary J. Blige What’s the 411? changed the landscape along with SWV first album. That was definitely the beginning of Hip Hop Soul

@CeddyMackBaybee

11 ай бұрын

​@@heatmentouchIt changed the game again AFTER BBD changed the game TBH

@heatmentouch

11 ай бұрын

@@aaronsemien1350 NOPE! MJB's and BBD's first albums were New Jack albums! "12 Play" really mixed R&B, Hip-hop, Gospel and Pop together and served as a blueprint for everyone! SWV's first album was also New Jack

@heatmentouch

11 ай бұрын

@@CeddyMackBaybee Well in a certain way I feel you BUT, when "12 Play" came in 1993 (after "Poison") the game changed forever! Diddy, Jermaine Dupri or other artists/producers will tell you that! Kelly's influence was HUGE

FRESH PRINCE episode with BEL,BIV,DEVO‼️🫵🏾

Bel Bib Devoe was the blueprint for the way R&B men were looking harder and dressing Street

Poison is a classic! “Never trust a big butt and a smile!!” No truer words! 🤣😂😭😩😫

@flyazzplayboy

11 ай бұрын

Should be somewhere in the Bible

@camillejarrett5008

11 ай бұрын

@@flyazzplayboy😂😂

I never seen so many dudes smilin while hearin the stories. This golden fr. Master storyteller

Poison will forever be played at all the events. They created a forever classic with that one

Blacks and Latins girls in The Bronx was doing dance routines to that song sun up, sun down. One of the rare occasions the whole block was united. The song will live in infamy.

BBD revolutionized the game! From fashion to music yo.

@nmarcus7233

11 ай бұрын

💯

I was definitely one of those people back then who could not see Ronnie, Milke & Ricky coming out with a dope album. I was WRONG !!!

@user-vy7dh5vv2v

11 ай бұрын

It was really Ricky

Biv always been that dude

Listening to these interviews, makes me go back and jam out man. BBD is timeless. The same can be said for everyone from New Edition.

If I COULD LISTEN TO HIM TALK ALL DAY was a person. Biv got my full attention.

BBD is definitely part of the soundtrack to my life. We used to be performing at party's out the blue,and only one of us could actually sing. Not to mention the style with the 1st record.

@csharp57

11 ай бұрын

I remember where I was living and everything that was happening when Poison dropped. And I’m a pastor’s kid so I shouldn’t even been listening to that song. BUT I DID!!!

they change the game with that Poison. plus thats where i started beating up my desk in school doing that drum beat lol

That Poison beat is one of my favorites

Hearing these dudes singing motown Philly is just too dope. Speaks to just how great 90s R&B really was, the artists, The groups and music are timeless. We need to hear more R&B singers/groups and producers on these platforms. Teddy Riley next up yeah?!

Seeing Bigga singing along is dope...

this was a whole vibe, plenty summers and bbqs and talent shows, you had to be there fam!!!

Saw New Edition, Fat Boys and Whodini in Tampa in 1985 at the long gone Curtis Hixon Hall. Great show from what I remember!

'HIP-HOP .. SMOOTH OUT .. ON A R&B TIP .. WITH DA POP APPEAL .. TO IT' ..

The culture doesn’t treat the surprise success of BBD like the monumental moment it was in hip hop and R&B…..

I don't know if you realize... But this is CLASSIC MATERIAL!!!!💯👍🏿✊🏿 #MathHoffa

Smile Again, I do need You are & Something in your eyes are still in my R&B Music rotation. and of course Poison is That Move. Mike telling some great stories

Michael is a great storyteller. This should have been the BET movie under his eyes

Poison still destroys any Boston party

@kingjulian3997

11 ай бұрын

Suree do

…loved the impromptu harmonizing❤

@karenl.forest7083

11 ай бұрын

sameNESS

People always say Jodeci changed the look and sound of r&b by adding hiphop but actually it was bell biv Devoe

This show is killing it

I remember BBD performed Poison on a New Years Eve show the year it rang off. My older cousin lost his mind in my Aunties living room 😂

The biggest anticipated project in my 50 years of life they premiered Poison video on video Soul and the radio and retail was overloaded with requests and boom 💥🧨💣..History

Poison was a game changer. I’m glad they have that legendary track to their credit. Biv is the man

Used to say wassup to him in Hawthorne when he slide through the city. He was always cool and would wave back.

❤❤❤❤❤❤❤ BBD❤❤❤ the best times in my life was set to you’ll music! Nobody ever talks about… is this the end!!! Favorite new edition song❤❤

CERTIFIED CLASSIC INTERVIEW!

Yo Math and company is killin the net.

"Feel like I'm Loosen Control and I don't eventually know..."

That era was pure 🔥…He had to cringe on that harmony tho 😂

Mike Biv has always been cool... It's good to hear him giving up some history... bring on the whole interview...

Poison’s beat is one of the greatest beats in the history of R&B and hip hop history, simple but effective!

That Poison album is a treasure. So many classic songs!

Man this an instant block buster episode short 🍾

I still listen to that song & it's #2023

A Legend!!!

I will never forget...Chillin in the living room with a group of my dudes waiting on the premiere song/ video...We just knew it was going to be trash....After the video played it was silence....My boy then said "that sh.....t was cold." ....History was made!!!

I fell off for a bit math...this interview put me back on..all the clips...can't wait for the full interview

If you look at when BBD came out it was positioned perfectly. They basically kicked the door down in the beginning of 1990(Feb/Mar)..really starting the decade with a sound that hadn't been heard before. The way "Poison" hits you musically is the same way that their entrance into the music scene hit the world..no one expected the background singers of New Edition to come like this. It was crazy! They influenced the entire 90's R&B scene by setting the tone with their release within the first couple months of the decade! They deserve their flowers!

Thank you so much nobody ever gives New Edition the shine they should have been had from everbody !!! My Moma had The Temptations and I had New Edition... I will love them all my life, every girl who grew up in the new Edition era knows every lyric to EVERY song they ever song... I'M A NEW EDITION GIRL LIVING IN A CANDY GIRL WORLD !!

This probably the best interview

I remember as a kid when we used to dance to bbd poison running man dance steps and shuffle jump and dance moves , good ole classic smash called poison took over the world dance floors with a bang we watched it on television and it was steady on rotation on radio and older guys put us on that shit good

I’ve Never seen Biggah this happy!! 😂😂😂💯💯💯 🫡

Bell Biv DeVoe represented and Era in music that made it a great time to be alive. Great times great memories!

I'M LOVING THESE DETAILS!!!! IT EXPLAINS EVERYTHING ABOUT THOSE RECORDS!! I HOPE HE TELLS THE BUSTA RHYMES INVOLVEMENT; I AIN'T GONNA SPOIL IT!!

This is really cool to hear Biv recollect!

Bomb Squad rarely get their flowers for being dope producers

Track 15 on last meal got me thru my divorce real talk

Poison was hard especially cause that was a Kool G Rap vocal sample.

Motownphilly a timeless classic from the day I first heard it to now! By girls 30+ years later love it too!

I had no idea Bomb Squad worked on that album

@FlyAwayChi

11 ай бұрын

Hell yeah bro, they did I Thought It Was Me, a fucking smash!! 🔥 🔥

#mathhoffa I love your platform!! Everyone black knows how important the barbra shop was and still is so important to the black community. So do this interview in a barbra shop is awesome!! My grandfather had no sons. My mother was his only child. So on the weekends when my grandpop would go to the shop to get his hair cut he would take me and my sister😊. Years later when i had the first boy in the family he would take him to the shop too!!😊. As a little girl I learned a lot. My dad wasn't in my life as a child but my pop pop and the shop was. I know it helped shape me as a woman later in life. Married for 22 years😊

I love it great story legendary

I see the video quality and sound is waaaay better now. Makes watching and hearing these stories even better🫡

Poison was created on my Block… Shout Out To Freeze, Red Bandit, & Black Pete #EAstNewYork#Wyo

BBD is the definition of the underdog. Rick is a Swiss Army Knife. He can do a little bit of everything.

That was the shit in Elementary school

Thanks so much for Biv Chronicles.

Mannnn that poison hit when I was I. The 5 th grade that whole album jam

Yoooo!!!...yall niggas cutting up back to back bangers Biv & kid n play,so much respect for both they was my blueprint to learn how to talk to girls😂💯💯💯

This is one of the best interviews you all have done!! Keep up the great positive work!!!👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾

Love this interview. Mike is captivating. #NEforlife

😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣he said “ that sh*t sound like Ray, Goodman, & Brown” 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣 i did not see that one coming😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

This is definitely and enjoyable interview!!!! 😉 🔥

Okay, the WW in the background was an eye sore and messing with the optics……but Math is on 🔥☄️🌋with these interviews! 🙌🏾

Love this!👏🏾❤️

I LOVE THIS INTERVIEW 🌴🏆👑❗️‼️💯

BBD's Three Stripes album is solid! The duet w SWV,'Run' is 🔥🔥.

Was waiting for weeks for the album. I played the poison single till the ink faded. And the full tape when it came out.

Mike Bive story's be 🔥🔥🔥

Feeling this interview

Yall got me bout to pull up some Bell Biv Devou classics!

Classic!!!!!!!💪🏿💪🏿✊🏿✊🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿👏🏿

Michael Bivins Dope Math doing his thang

I do need you is my joint!!!! 🥰🥰🥰. Love the album!!!

Love these stories fr

Most Def the greatest show in the world!!!!

One of the best from Math

This continues to be my favorite interview

Salute to M.E.O.,,, y’all really stepping it up

That intro was lit. This clip was straight Fire 🔥🔥🧯🚒

I remember Poison coming over the system at the Skating Rink. 2nd Grade days!!

Dope segment

Didn't he get the poison sample from Kool g rap?