“I was like, Y’all gonna put this out? He was like, Yeah man, me, Ronnie and Rick, we going to do a group called BBD. And put in a tape of the demo of ‘Poison.’ No disrespect, I love the record now, but when I heard the demo I swore it was the worst thing I ever heard in my life.”
It was me, Mike Bivins and Dana Dane, we were going to a club, somewhere. “The lyrics that ended up making the record were rhyme,” Kwame would tell Hip-Hop Wired in 2015. Rapper/producer Kwame ghostwrote some of the raps in “ Poison,” and he admitted that he wasn’t impressed with the idea of Bell Biv DeVoe as a group-or their soon-to-be-hit. Of course, no one was expecting much from the three former New Edition members who’d famously stayed in the background for much of that group’s tenure. Tevin Campbell, Monica, Bobby Brown, And More To Headline R&B Music Experience Tour
