They followed up “Flossin’” with “Ride With Me,” which infiltrated dance floors and bedrooms across the country due to Pleasure P’s infectious chorus and the unrelenting energy of the group’s rap verses.

Pleasure P―while brothers Ala Diamond and Spectacular Smith rap alongside fourth member Corey Mathis, giving Pretty Ricky an edge over more traditional artists that emphasized sultry vocal performances. The band is fronted by Marcus Cooper―a.k.a. In their early days, the group pioneered an electric, sexified revamp of the genre, alongside a new generation of stars and acts like Usher, Omarion, and 112. Their first single, “Flossin’,” was inescapable thanks to its constant appearance on the Florida Power 96 station, and just a few years later, they leveraged that local goodwill into a national audience that became enamored with their intoxicatingly fresh play on R&B. Back in 2002, when regional success was the surest way of predicting superstardom, no group was bigger in Miami than the neo-R&B stars Pretty Ricky.

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