Chicago’s Crucial Conflict scored with their one and only hit single, “Hay” in the summer of 1996.  

In 1998, Imajin, a quartet of four teenaged musicians, scored a top 40 single with their single “Shorty (You Keep Playin’ With My Mind)” featuring Keith Murray.

Duice’s ode to short shorts had girls from coast to coast rocking their Dazzey Duks in 1993.

Laquan was a sixteen-year old emcee from California who enjoyed a mild hit with his single “Now’s The B-Turn” in 1990.

When one of your younger brothers is the most famous pop singer in the world, you’re bound to reap the benefits.

MoKenStef, aka Monifa, Kenya, and Stephanie, hit big in 1995 with their incredibly catchy single “He’s Mine.”

In 1993, five Compton, CA residents collectively known as D.R.S. had a hit single with “Gangsta Lean,” an ode to their dead homiez.

Sylk-E-Fyne’s debut single “Romeo & Juliet” was one of those cuts that came out back in the ’90s that you heard on the radio all the time.