Boyz II Men is part of three of the longest running songs on the Billboard chart including this one. Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men wrote and sang on this ode to lost loved ones, which became a Billboard record-setter spending 16 weeks at the number one spot. ONE SWEET DAY (1995) Mariah Carey and Boyz II Men It’s lazy, percolating beat taken from funk samples was part of Dre’s trademark West Coast sound.Ĥ. Recorded for The Chronic, Dre’s debut CD, now viewed as a classic of the era, it was among one of the West Coast records that hit nationwide making even bigger stars of Snoop and Dre. The Dre/Snoop track remains the quintessential 90’s West Coat hip hop song. Sadly, both Static Major and Aaliyah would die both early and unexpectedly – Aaliyah in a 2001 plane crash and Static Major in 2008 of complications from myasthenia gravis, an autoimmune disorder.ģ. But it became one of her biggest hits, getting “retired” from TRL and becoming one of the top 3 played videos on MTV in 1998. Producer/writer Static Major and longtime collaborator Timbaland made the record which initially Static said Aaliyah wasn’t crazy about. She rebounded from that scandal with this huge hit, done for the Eddie Murphy Dr. Kelly, who she later married in an illegal ceremony since she was just 15 at the time. Teenage sensation Aaliyah was discovered by R. Who doesn’t know that you just can’t trust a big butt and a smile? Fresh off their 80’s heyday as the least controversial members of New Edition (until we saw the BET biopic!) Michael Bivins, Ronnie Devoe and Ricky Bell decided to cook up this funky, hip-hop oriented track and it was a WIN, earning the trio a platinum single.
BABYFACE SONGS 90S FULL
No matter where you are or what you’re doing as soon as you hear the beat and the intro “Spiderman and Freeze in full effect” you’re bound to start singing this Bell Biv Devoe 90’s classic.
Read on and see if you agree or disagree with our list. So don’t think of this as a definitive list – this is more a list representative of the best of Black music in an era that was defined by so many great choices. We looked at the biggest hits and hitmakers and we did a cross-section of uptempos and ballads and male and female artists with some hip-hop thrown in.Īnd STILL, it was tough to get down to ten.
But it’s Black Music Month, so we had to try. And we’re so sure you’ll let us know what we missed.
There were so many hit songs of the 90’s it’s hard to pin them down to one list.