


Trio TLC rose from Atlanta, Georgia to incorporate hip hop and r&b to create a distinctive sound. With songs such as ‘Baby Love’ and ‘Stop! In The Name of Love’, the Supremes definitely served as pioneers for girl groups to come. The group cycled through 10 members during its 18 year career and started Diana Ross’ solo career. Originating from the projects of Detroit, Michigan, the original members of Florence Ballard, Mary Wilson, Betty McGlown, and Diana Ross went on to have 12 number one singles on the Billboard Hot 100. From TLC to The Pussycat Dolls, Destiny’s Child to Fifth Harmony, girl groups from the past and present tend to be positive upbeat role models that get us dancing!Īs the golden girls of Motown, The Supremes hit the Motown scene in the 1960’s. Starting with groups like the Supremes, girl groups have evolved over the years to become prominent influences in pop and r&b music. Girl groups have been prominent since the 1960s and have continued to become more popular. However, it’s not just the guys that are rising in fame. Their fandoms continue to grow more and more as the groups produce not only music but movies, TV ventures, and worldwide tours. It not only gave Beyoncé her first top-10 single away from Destiny’s Child, but it allowed us all a glimpse into the couple’s life, which seemed to consist of B sitting round watching Sex and the City re-runs, eerily predicting how life would become for us all in 2020.Boy bands like One Direction and Emblem 3 are taking over as the era of boy bands commences. Based on Tupac’s 1996 single Me and My Girlfriend and the lead single on Jay’s The Blueprint 2: The Gift & the Curse album, producer Kanye West upped the volume on the Spanish guitar and added two killer verses from him and a beautiful chorus from her.

The best Jay-Z and Beyoncé collab is, of course, this one. Boots hasn’t released his own music since 2018, but he’s still working behind the scenes, with recent cuts on Phantogram and Run the Jewels releases. He ended up writing and producing on nine of the album’s tracks, including “Drunk in Love” and “Partition” and by way of returning the favour, Beyoncé featured on this relatively obscure song from his debut mixtape, 2014’s Winter Spring Summer Fall, which also featured contributions from Sia and Kelela.

One of the first records that producer, songwriter, rapper and singer Jordan Asher Cruz (also known as Boots) worked on was Beyoncé’s self-titled fifth album.
