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Mint Condition is an American R&B band from Minneapolis, Minnesota. The band fuses diverse genres such as jazz, hip hop, funk and dance into its music. Mint Condition has also been nominated for four Grammy and Soul Train Awards. The group is credited with being one of the last major funk bands to chart before hip-hop and New Jack Swing dominated black music in the 1990s.
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"Never Too Much" is a song written, composed, produced, and performed by Luther Vandross. The R&B song was released in 1981, as the lead single from Vandross' debut studio album of the same name (1981). The title track hit number one on the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, reached number four on the US Billboard Dance Club Songs chart, and peaked at number 33 on the US Billboard Hot 100.
"G.H.E.T.T.O.U.T." is a song by American R&B duo Changing Faces. Released in 1997 from their second album All Day, All Night and produced by R. Kelly, the single hit #8 on the Billboard Hot 100 and spent four weeks at number one on the Billboard R&B chart.
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American R&B singer Monica has released 8 studio albums, one extended play, and 35 singles. Since the beginning of her career in 1995, she has sold 5.3 million albums in the United States, In 1999, Billboard included her among the top twenty of the Top Pop Artists of the 1990s, and in 2010, the magazine ranked her 24th on its list of the Top 50 R&B and Hip Hop Artists of the past 25 years. With a career lasting over 20 years, Monica became the first artist to top the US Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart in the 1990s, 2000s, and 2010s.
So Many Ways is the debut album by American R&B vocal group The Braxtons. Released on August 6, 1996, the album produced four singles; "So Many Ways", "Only Love", "The Boss" – which peaked at number-one in the Billboard Dance Charts – and "Slow Flow". "So Many Ways" peaked at No. 26 on the Billboard R&B/Hip-Hop Albums charts and No. 3 on the Heatseekers Albums chart.
American recording artist Chris Brown has released nine studio albums, ten mixtapes, fifty six singles and nineteen promotional singles. According to Billboard, Brown has the eighth most Hot 100 entries on the chart with 101. As of August 2020, he has achieved 51 top 40 entries on the Hot 100 and 16 top 10 entries. Brown is the singer with the fifth-most consecutive weeks on the Hot 100 chart. According to the Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), he is the seventh-best-selling digital single artist in the United States with sales of 69.5 million.
"Every Time I Close My Eyes" is a song written, produced and performed by American musician Babyface. It was released as the second single from his album The Day. Mariah Carey serves as a backing vocalist and Kenny G performs a sax solo on the recording.
"Been Around the World" is a 1997 single from the Puff Daddy album No Way Out, featuring The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase. The song samples David Bowie's 1983 hit song "Let's Dance", and contains an interpolation of Lisa Stansfield's song "All Around the World", sung by The Notorious B.I.G. in the chorus. In the album version, the song concludes with a skit featuring an interview with "The Mad Producer".
American rapper Young Thug has released 1 studio album, 1 compilation album, 19 mixtapes, 3 extended plays (EPs) and 21 singles.
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