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WTF? J.D. SIGNS J.E. TO ISLAND DEF JAM??

Written by Gyant

Posted on March 26, 2007 4:17 AM

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Quick, can anyone remember when the last time Jagged Edge had a hit? Exactly, I can’t either because they never really had a hit.

The group that burst on the music scene almost eleven years ago have had more chances then Foxxy Brown to get their career on track. Yet after many failed attempts they still seem to give chance after chance, after chance.

It’s just been announced that Dupri has given Atlanta R&B quartet Jagged Edge a home on his new label- Island Def Jam Urban, and I can’t for the life of me understand why. In a way you have to respect his loyalty to his group by offering them such a prestige opportunity. However, you still can’t look over the fact that Jagged Edge is about as corny as Dru Hill would be in today’s music. To me they were always a broke down Dru Hill, just with twins.

I’ve out together a list of their recording achievements:

1. "Gotta Be" reached #11 on the R&B charts and #23 on the Hot 100
2. "Let's Get Married" which topped the R&B charts and reached #11 on the Hot 100
3. "He Can't Love You" reached #3 on the R&B charts and #15 on the Hot 100.
4. "Promise" reached #1 on the R&B charts and #9 on the Hot 100.
5. "Where The Party At" (which featured an appearance by Nelly), reached #1 on the R&B
charts and #3 on the Hot 100.
6. "Walked Outta Heaven" reached #6 on the Hot 100 and #2 on the R&B charts.

Now the one thing you cant ignore about their semi success is that all these “chart toppers” were damn near 5 years ago. Since then they have made nothing but flop after flop after flop, does anybody remember “Stunna’s”?

So what do y’all think, does Jagged Edge deserve another chance on Island Def Jam, or should they call it a wrap and go get a real job?

Here is a video from their most bullshit track of their career.

-Talk to y’all lata

SOHH Gyant

39 Comments

Your'e a straight up hater!!

here's there stats
Discography

Albums
1997: A Jagged Era #104 US (Certified: Platinum)
2000: J.E. Heartbreak #8 US (Certified: 3x Platinum)
2001: Jagged Little Thrill #3 US (Certified: 2x Platinum)
2003: Hard #3 US (Certified: Platinum)
2006: Jagged Edge #4 US (Certified: Gold )
2006: The Hits
i aint a J.E. fan but 7.5 million albums come on man!

r u crazy? JE were as good if not better than Dru Hill!!!!ye maybe there were a few wack joints here & there but they put out some good R&B back in the day. JE Heartbreak & Jagged Littler Thrill were banging albums. playing that shit would get you poootie for days. dru hill had sisqo & you callin JE the corny ones?u wrong for that shit lol

@Jason

Are you honestly going to stand by your statement that after 11 years 7.5 million copies are a success????? Most music acts did that in one album back in the day.

Hey pimpin, i sense a lil hate in ya blood man. I could see if you were talking about T3 (Who?..exactly). But this is JE we talking about. Their album history is pretty substantial compared to a lot of others. You can't front on them like they have had a flop. only selling 50,000 is a flop. but to me, anything over 500,000 sales is straight with me.

"Most music acts did that in one album back in the day."

Slight exaggeration!!

Honestly I"ve heard worse. I just wished they would of stopped the advertising and wrote a better song. but it was o....k

JE deserves this chance cause they got a respectable track record. Plus JD got that chmistry with 'em, man. They ain't no BoysIIMen, but they ain't a flop either and if anybody can ressurect them, its JD tha Hitmaker. He did it for Pariah Carey, NO?

Yeah.. I think someone has a distorted view of what success is. I have to agree with all the previous comments. J.E. are talented and very successful. I'm sure their not homeless just because they haven't put out an album recently. Most people could only wish to take off 5 years and enjoy the fruits of their labor. I don't see any problem with them coming back. Plus its nice to see that J.D. looks out for both his old and new artists.

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@ SOHH GYANT

Aiight playboy its been alotta shit pop off in the "A" this weekend so lets get this blog popping right this week...

1st - DG Yola was shot in the face in what Police are calling a blotched car jacking.. The Streets say it was a "Hit"

2nd - Big Boi & Killer Mike's crews come to blows at Club Crucial (T.I.'s) Club on my side of town (WESTSIDE!!!)then Killa Kill calls up to V-103 to air out "General Patton"

Man this has been a crazy weekend in the "A" but at least the weathers beautiful

WHAT UP TO THE ATL HAWKS THEY PLAYED A DAMN GOOD GAME YESTERDAY BUT CAME UP SHORT...

DJ OKTOBA IM STILL CHILLING

Come on Gyant lets get it Popping today bruh!!! No more of this weak shyt!!!

WEN DID YOLA GET SHOT IN THE FACE

WEN DID YOLA GET SHOT IN THE FACE

WHO WON BETWEEN KILLA MIKES CREW & BIG BOIS

ALSO WHY DID THE FIGHT START

I wanna hear about the fight at Club Crucial, thats something worth reporting.

je gonna o they thing. they just need the right songs.. jd is gonna make sure this next album is fire because he wants to prove himself

Wait, hold up a second. Did I just read Truthie's comment correctly?

J.E. Better than Dru Hill?!?!?!

J.E. is straight, but you're wylin' on that comment, b. "Enter The Dru" is better than all of J.E. albums put together.

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YEAH WHO EVER WROTE THAT ABOUT JE, HE DON'T KNOW WHAT THE FUNK HE TALKIN BOUT, JE had hits with JD they got quite after captiol got 'em' (research man research)

Saying that JE had hits is just like saying Milly Vanilly had hits....SO FUCKIN WHAT. Out of all these so called "HITS" there were no classics. They were good when they were hott but its over and done with...let it tha fuck go! Boybands with 34yr old GROWN ASS MEN that can't sing past a b-flat is not a good look and will not sell. Dudes (including FOXY BROWN) need to stop living in the past, deal with reality and keep it moving.

@ SOHH GYANT

I usually agree with your blogs 95% percent of the time. But this time you are way off the mark. in a time where there is no good quality R&b around, JE has been the most consistant group of all time. More than Boyz II Men & 112. The only ones who were more consitant were Dru Hill. Those Dudes got hits.
Gotta Be- Banger
He Cant Love You- Banger
Lets Get Married- Classic
Lets Get Married Remix with Rev Run- Classic
Where The Party At- Classic
Promise- Classic
Goodbye- Classic
Wakled Outta Heaven- Banger
Freaky Thangs with Ludacris- Classic
Ill give you that thier last album was certified asscrakers. Thats only because JD wasnt on it. JD has the midas touch when it comes to R&B. Def Jam should be lucky to have those guys. Just dont fuck them over like they did 112. Hook em up with NE-YO for a few songs and with JD on the boards its a classic waiting to happen. I guarentee you, dude!

That Heartbreak CD is one of the best R&B CDs ever released if you ask me.

Yeah..I said THAT.

Stop hatin! Ya'll "Professional Bloggers" is a trip, paid to report on others musical endeavors and resort to the jealous hate that resides in your heart rather than showing love or building up a brother and sister.

Good for you Jagged Edge...get back to the old Jagged Edge and make that good music. And good lookin out JD for recognizing talent and givin them dudes another shot to give us what made us love em in the first place.

SOHH...shame on ya'll hatas! A broke down Dru Hill...ya'll must be crazy.

How bout SOHH is a broke down Allhiphop.com...WITH BLOGS!

ur a hater...with so many of these bootleg non singing groups out...JE is one of the last groups that can actually sing. U make it seem like they are failures...selling 7.5 million isnt bad...

Gotta Be- Banger
He Cant Love You- Banger
Lets Get Married- Classic
Lets Get Married Remix with Rev Run- Classic
Where The Party At- Classic
Promise- Classic
Goodbye- Classic
Wakled Outta Heaven- Banger
Freaky Thangs with Ludacris- Classic


Posted by: Darnell at March 26, 2007 10:02 AM

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I bet even when somebody read the names of them songs, they can play the song in thier head, dude said JE didn't have a Hit? i dont see how, reguardless on how far it got on the Billboard charts or whatever, Let's Get Married was a monster, and when it came out them girls played that shit so much i hated hearing it, but that sont is a Hit and a classic, you can probably recite the whole chorus in your head right now.

I never said nothin about a blogger but thats just hate homey. JE is one of the only groups that stayed together and I got all their cd's and they all tight even their last one.

@ DJ OKTOBA

Bruh LEAVE this dude/ BLOG alone..HE will NEVER GET IT..

You've already seen this patna..

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and for the 3rd day straight, the SOHH Biggest Homotional Hater Award (BHHA) goes to....you guessed it, Sohh Gyant.

What do mean JE don't deserve to get signed? If they don't, which male R&B group does, and don't ya pansy ass say Pretty Ricky.

and for the 3rd day straight, the SOHH Biggest Homotional Hater Award (BHHA) goes to....you guessed it, Sohh Gyant.

What do mean JE don't deserve to get signed? If they don't, which male R&B group does, and don't ya pansy ass say Pretty Ricky.

Gyant, u da worst on here.

Dude already told you about real shit going on in the A, shit u had no clue about because u only frequent bars for dl brothers and beat up guys who can't keep they hands off u or throw they drink in your face cause you such a flirt, lol!!!

Now you hatin of J.E., looking real stupid after dude showed you they have sold over 7.5 million records in their career, your response is about the dumbest shit I done heard in a minute.

Give it up bruh, you have no clue what's poppin in A, all u do is read the paper and piggyback off of that. It's sad that city like Atlanta that has so much going on a daily basis has such weak blog on a popular hip hop site.

@ All the ATLiens

Big Boi and Killer Mike got into it over some beef from Birthday Bash where C-Bone called Killa Kill a monkey in so many words "One monkey don't stop no show" and C-Bone wasn't talking about Cee-Lo this time... I wasn't in Crucial but Killer called up to v-103 and spoke on it saying his problem was with Mr Patton nobody else... Its really because Mike was not happy with the Big Boi's Purple Ribbon Camp for letting C-Bone step outta line with his little comment at Birthday Bash... Now for those of you who don't know who C-Bone is a memeber of Koncrete (???) along with Big Boi's brother Super Nate and anotha cat I forget his name...


I heard Yola got shot in the face Saturday Night at a Red Light, the bullet went thought his jaw(S) DAMN!!! Thats some stupid shyt!!! How you shoot a brotha in the face you don't take the car??? Sounds like a set up to me... Can we say Hit??? Who would want to harm him though??? Alotta people say he is never going to come out for biting the hand that feeds him... Ironically Yola killed it at Birthday Bash that was the day I gave Yola all his respect because the crowd sang his song verse for verse when he did "I just don't give a Fuck!!"

Get well soon Yola, Antwon and Michael need to chill with that dumbness or box it out over there off Northside (Stankonia)

DJ OKTOBA IM STILL CHILLING

Y'all need to give me the real ATL Blog...

Oktoba, do u really think Big Boi(whose only big in name) wants to shoot the five with Killer, I don't.

Ego is a mutha!

I HATE THE FACT THAT BIG BOI AND KILL MIKE GOT INTO BECAUSE I LIKE BOTH OF THEM AND I HATE IT WHEN ATLIEN'S GET INTO WITH EACH OTHER LEAVE THAT SHIT FOR THEM UP NORTH NIGGA'S. YOLA I AM PRAYING FOR YOU GOD WAS WATCHING OVER YOU THAT NIGHT IT COULD HAVE BEEN WORSE THAN THAT! I AIN'T GONE EVEN START ON THIS NIGGA WHO WROTE ABOUT JE FOR ALL MY REAL FOLKS FROM ATL YALL KNOW JAGGED EDGE BE FUCKING JAMMIN MAYBE IT IS DIFFERENT BECAUSE I AM A WOMAN BUT AIN'T NOTHING BETTER THAN LISTENING TO JAGGED EDGE, SMOKING A BLUNT WITH YO NIGGA JUST KICKING IT! I DON'T KNOW WHY YALL ACTING LIKE EVERYBODY AND THEY MAMA DIDN'T PLAY LET'S GET MARRIED AT THE RECEPTION STOP ACTING AND KEEP IT REAL!

man get of jagged edge man. if you wana talk about someone at least let it be 112. now they aint been hard since peaches and cream and its over now.

First of all 11 years is a long ass time compared to other male groups....jagged edge may not have had very many chart toppers but the make good music...i have all their cds from the 1st to the last...u are so stupid...of course jd gonna show jagged edge sum love...he ain't stupid...bitches been luvin je from day 1...and thats all that matters!!!

Dawg, u'z a straight up hater...how can you say that they dont have any hits and wack ass career....U just listed a frea**** list of songs with a number of them reaching top 5 and a number 1....jay z didnt make an album for two years and he comes back and yall suck him up....and that shit was so weak....but j.e. had r n b on lock w/ jd so what the hell....if jd needed singers, he'd get j.e. Dru Hill never had the charisma past sysco and he couldnt even maintain...but i bet you all sayin devin this and that....devins albums be 1 every 4 years and dont get mainstream play at all....but yall screaming this is a hit...that is a hit....if the label dont push it to the radio, then what....its just a song on the album....which is what devin has...good songs on each of his albums.....dont hate because "OUR" favorite artists arent releasing music like you would want them too....STOP THE FUCKING HATING...

This nigga is hating man, J.E. has had countless hits and proved they got longevity in a game where everyone is a one hit wonder...

Man, what do you want?? Hit after hit after hit? How many of the new kids have managed that? Have you heard the Pretty Ricky Album or the dudes breaking out like Ahmir?? You can hardly get 3 decent tracks between them and Ahmir esp sound like JE rejects. JE have given us some unreal tracks down the years and are still here tryin to bring there distinctive sound to us. Stop hating and get behind the collab with JD. BTW, you kinda answer your own question regards to JE. They are so respected that 11 years on, we are still talking about them and people like JD want to sign them up!!!

fo reel da dude dat writes deez blogs is a straight up hater j.e. are a consitent group they made der money and they hits dude prolly hatin cus he aint get no pussy when he put in der cd in attempts to get pussy from fat bitch sarah down the street. stop hatin sorry azz nuckkka

Oh boy was right.bumpin some jaged edge gotem wet quick.females love dat shit

Oh yes we ladies do likie d JE. Jagged Edge has an ridiculous repoirte of cuts that were never released on the airwaves from each album.

Their success would've been even greater if the right singles were released. Besides Walked Out of Heaven, could've used better judgement after Where the Party at?

I tried to put together a JE cd for myself with cuts never played on the radio. I came up with well over 20 songs. Don't play with The Truth.

Jagged Edge has been my most fav group for a long time now. To me, they continue to make good music. There's alot of bs groups out there who can't hold a candle to JE. Good for Jermaine for knowing talent.

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