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Blaque Ivory – 808
Label: Columbia – 667289 2
Format: CD, Maxi-Single
Country: Europe
Released: 1999
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Contemporary R&B

Real Name:
Believing in Life and Achieving a Quest for Unity in Everything
Profile:
Natina Reed and Shamari Fears both moved to Atlanta, Georgia, and met while in high school. Reed formed Blaque while Fears formed another group called Intrigue. Intrigue won a recording contract with Elektra Records, and Fears met up with Brandi Williams at a talent show while a member of that group. Fears left Intrigue to join up with Reed in Blaque and Williams joined the group shortly thereafter. Reed met Ronald Lopes while singing jingles to earn extra cash and he introduced her to his sister Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes of TLC. Lisa Lopes signed the group to her production company, Left Eye Productions.

Blaque has said that their name means "Believing in Life and Achieving a Quest for Unity in Everything".

Their debut album Blaque sold more than 1.5 million copies and was certified Platinum. The group's debut included the Gold-selling single "808", the international hit "Bring It All to Me", and a third single, "I Do". The group went on hiatus from 2002 until 2007, releasing only three unsuccessful singles, "Can't Get It Back", "Ugly", and the international single from the film Honey, "I'm Good". In 1999, Billboard named Blaque the 4th Best New Artist of the year, with "Bring It All to Me" landing at number 30 on the 2000 Year End Chart.

In addition to their recording work, Reed, Fears, and Williams appeared in the 2000 film Bring It On as members of the East Compton Clovers cheerleading squad, fronted by Gabrielle Union. Williams also had a small role (playing herself) in the 2001 movie On the Line. Blaque also appears on Lisa "Left Eye" Lopes's 2001 solo debut album, Supernova, on the track titled "Head to the Sky", which was only released internationally. In 2005, two clips of Fears's solo songs titled "The One" and "NJ2" were leaked onto the internet.

Blaque attempted a comeback in 2012 but this effort came to an end with the death of Natina Reed.

Known as Blaque in the US. Named Blaque Ivory in Canada and elsewhere for legal reasons.

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Transcript
00:01Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, check it out
00:04See what I believe is
00:07We was granted power
00:10What's that? Power what?
00:13Heh, gotta make you dance
00:18Like this
00:19I heard she's got a nine to five
00:21Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
00:23We're coming in after twelve
00:26Check it out
00:27You know they're tired of her life
00:29Yeah, yeah, yeah
00:31Just let her go what they need
00:35Now take me for instant, babe
00:38See my love would drive you crazy
00:41Plus I be going boom like it made a way
00:45Baby, boom
00:46Be making circles like a figurine
00:49You know it feels good from head to toe
00:54Now hold on to me, baby, here we go
00:58You'll be going boom, baby, boom, baby, boom
01:01And I'll be going ooh, baby, ooh, baby, ooh
01:05Shake it in
01:06Shake it in
01:07I heard she's not all that to you
01:10Cause she can do it like I do
01:14So put that trophy on the shed
01:17Go out and find somebody
01:20Take me for instant, babe
01:25See my love would drive you crazy
01:28Cause I be going
01:29Ain't nobody bangin' like me
01:31Snackin' like me
01:32Wouldn't like me
01:33That's Kelly
01:34His original plan
01:35To get his launch on the map
01:36I'm making you clap your hands
01:37Dance you
01:38Cause I
01:38I'm not gonna lie
01:39I want my Amsterdiz
01:41QB cry
01:42Honey bunch
01:43If you're not busy
01:44Take me to lunch
01:45Oh, yeah, I done did it now
01:46With the legend music
01:47What, poppin' cruise
01:48And what
01:49It always run ten and juice
01:50Yeah
01:50Give me up
01:51You want in the bill
01:52Forget the names
01:53Cause they ride in my pocket, baby
01:54And today
01:55I just want to jig on my board
01:56But not your socks
01:57So I put my
01:57What, what, what
01:59Yeah, yeah
02:00Boom like it made a way
02:02Ooh, like it made a way
02:04Circles like a big array
02:06Circles like a big array
02:08Fails come from head to toe
02:12To me, baby, here we go
02:14Come on, get it, baby
02:16Boom like it made a way
02:18Ooh, like it made a way
02:20Circles like a big array
02:21Oh, yeah
02:23Fails come from head to toe
02:25To me, baby, here we go
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