Love is in the air as Rickey Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, and Michael Bivins- the men of Bell Biv DeVoe, recently had a chance to play matchmaker before singing one of their classic love ballads.

Something To Smile About:

BBD is in concert and at their recent stop on the Three Stripes Tour, Mike Bivins helped one of their fans, Jonathan Cook, plan a proposal to his now fiancé, Sasha. Thinking that she would just enjoy the show,  Sasha had know idea that she would be apart of the show and that her life was about to change.

Bringing Sasha up on stage, in front of hundreds of screaming fans, Johnathan Cook stole the show when he proposed to his fiancé Sasha. On one knee, Johnathan asked Sasha to marry him and of course she said yes! Ricky shared the video of the proposal that had the crowd going wild and Sasha in joyful tears. After the  engagement the group serenaded the couple with a song.

This Guy here @cookdanupe Johnathan Cook stole the show when he proposed to his fiancé Sasha, right before we sang Smile Again,” he shared on his Instagram page

See The Heartwarming Moment Below:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BWGFFezhRMb/?taken-by=mrrickybell

Fans of classic R&B are in for a treat this year, as Bell Biv DeVoe, SWV, and En Vogue announce an upcoming “Three Stripes Tour” across the U.S. The tour is an opportunity for the group to promote their Three Stripes LP, which dropped in January. Meanwhile, SWV is promoting their Still album and En Vogue is gearing up for their own project, Electric Café. While fans are excited about new music, expect to hear classic BBD hits such as  Poison, Do Me Baby, and Smile Again. 

With the success of the New Edition movie, fans were anxiously awaiting a new release of a New Edition album along with a tour. After the BET smash hit, Johnny Gill was on “TMZ Live” and shared with TMZ that he’d just wrapped a convo with the other NE members about getting in the studio to follow up 2004’s “One Love.” He promised they have more than just an album on the way. In an interview with Music Choice, Rickey Bell explained that because some of the New Edition members weren’t ready to do a NE album, BBD decided to release their own body of work.

Rickey Bell said the following in the interview:

What made us release a Bell Biv DeVoe album as opposed to a New Edition album, especially after the movie? Our intent was to release another New Edition album along with the tour and the whole big splash campaign and all of that and just like how we formed Bell Biv DeVoe because other members wanted to do something else is the same reason why we’re releasing a BBD album and not a New Edition album at this time.

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Not wanting to disappoint their fans, BBD is on tour and helping to make dreams come true! The group was more than happy to be apart of the engagement as they congratulated the newly engaged couple.

As #MarriageAmbassadors these are the things you live for! Ronnie added.

Congrats to Johnathan and Sasha!

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Remember them? The four ladies are Tee, Nikita, Pluke, and Deborah and they played a major role in BBD’s initial success back in the day, because they were like a fixture in the group’s performance and brought that street-sexy appeal to Mike Bivens,’ Ricky Bell’s, and Ronnie DeVoe’s raw edge.

Their fashion choices were on point and combined with their signature ponytails and fire dance skills, that entire recipe made them some of the most relatable ’round-the-way-girls on TV at that time. They weren’t too prissy to break a sweat, they weren’t chumps in the dance department- they could run with and/or over the best of ’em- and they damn sure weren’t the type of girls Ronnie described in “Poison,” with his line -“She’s a winner to you, but I know she’s a loser/[How do you know?] Me and the crew used to do her.”

Str8 Ahead also influenced a lot of BBD fans’ dance routines and helped us kill it at our school dances and local nightclubs! C’mon now Old Schoolers, let’s not front like some of us weren’t standing in front of our TV sets watching “Video Soul,” “The Box,” “Yo MTV Raps,” etc., and trying to mimic every move the ladies did in “Poison,” LOL. Anywho, scroll down to check out the BBD dancers now and their interview…

The BBD dancers now…

In a previous interview with A.M. Caffeine Morning Show, three of the BBD dancers- Deborah, Nikita, and Tee, revealed a lot of interesting fun facts about their time with BBD that we didn’t know.

1. They loved BET biopic, The New Edition Story and were honored that they were actually depicted in the movie, because it wasn’t a BBD movie, but an N.E. movie.

2. Str8 Ahead said they met BBD at an L.A. club, called Paradise, while competing in a dance contest Mike Bivins was judging. Ricky told them they “were forming a group called BBD and we wanna know if you can dance to the song.” The ladies admitted they knew of New Edition, but they still didn’t understand what BBD was gonna be because they’d never heard of them. Nonetheless, they were just happy to be working with the “New Edition guys” as they referred to ’em.

3. Str8 Ahead then met up with Brooke Payne (N.E.’s choreographer/manager, etc.) to show off their skills and Brooke told them they were “wack” because they got burned out too quickly. They ultimately up’d their game and made the cut.

4. The routine the ladies performed for Brooke ended up becoming the official “Poison” routine that damn near every BBD fan knows to this day…no matter how rusty many of us may be at actually doing it, LOL.

5. The dancers who were known for their fly outfits said BBD gave them the freedom to pick all of their own clothes. They also revealed that they’re style actually inspired BBD’s then unique style, which we simply know as ‘the BBD look.’

Now pardon me fam’…I’m ’bout to go get my BBD dance on…after seeing the BBD dancers, I can’t resist. Peace…

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If y’all thought BBD was only about hip smoothed out on an R&B tip with a pop feel, appeal to it,’ think again. Bell, Biv, DeVoe are about to go country for y’all one time…don’t take our word for it though, just ask Ricky Bell a.k.a. “Slick.”

Ricky was stopped in the LAX airport by TMZ photogs and asked about their recent collabo with the country singer, Lady Antebellum, on Jimmy Kimmel Live Show. BBD and Antebellum must have done a helluva job on the show and afterwards, many country fans couldn’t stop talking about ‘that hip hop group, BBD,’ that had just been introduced to them as if they were a new group fresh from an of an audition inside an A&R’s office or something, LOL.

Anywho, Rick is now saying that there will in fact be a BBD and Lady Antebellum collaboration or supergroup of some sort. But let’s not expect Ronnie, Mike, and ‘Slick’ to start rockin’ cowboy boots and hats anytime soon though. Ricky says they won’t compromise who they are as a hip hop/R&B group, they’ll just meet Antebellum in the middle and let them do what they do best, while BBD does the same. Check out what else Ricky had to say in the video below…

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uuRxPwwW-y0

What’s up ILOSM fam’? Are y’all ready for a BBD country collabo’ or nah?

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Via BostonGlobe: “I might just be numb,” Bivins (inset) told us Tuesday. “It’ll probably hit me next year when the renovation is done and they cut the ribbon and hit that light switch and the kids say, ‘Yo man, this looks nice, Mike, look at them lights.’ ”

Ramsay Park in Roxbury, will rename it’s to Michael Bivins court, which according to Mike, no singer from Boston has ever received before. Mike grew up playing basketball on Ramsay Park’s b-ball court and he’s even held his Biv 20K Blacktop Classic there to promote peace in the city and put $20K in the winning team’s hands. But never in a million years did he EVER imagine that the court it would soon bear his name:

Via BG: “I’m not a hockey player getting a basketball court named for me. I put in a lot of time playing ball,” he joked. “Ball was my way out. Until I met my brothers in New Edition, ball was gonna be my way out. One way or another, I was gonna get out.”

“Nah. When the leaders came to me last year [about the basketball court], it caught me off guard. I was really dumbfounded, like, wow,” says the singer, who hosts an annual basketball tourney at the court at Ramsay Park. “There’s street names for other people, public figures like Martin Luther King Jr. and Marcus Garvey, but nobody from my city has a street sign or nothing, so this really touches me.”

It’s truly exciting to sit back and watch the members of New Edition morph into Temptations level icon status right before our eyes. They are becoming the icons we always knew they deserved to be. It was only a matter of time and they’re still carving out their journey to the Temptations level of greatness on the music industry.

Can’t wait to see their biopic, “The New Edition Story,” when it airs on BET in January 2017. Will you be watching ILOSM family?

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To say I’m buggin’ out right now, like a teen groupie on the front row at a 1988 New Edition concert, is an understatement, LOL. It’s not simply because I’m a fan of BBD’s music, but it’s because I’m a fan of REAL music and I’m glad their bringing some of that to today’s market for a change. Just like many of my fellow Old Schoolers, I’ve been waiting for some real artists from back in the day to drop a new single or two, so these youngins out here can see how it’s really done.

BBD’s new album, titled “Three Stripes ≡,” will release in January 2017 and their new single, “Run,” was produced by a producer who never disappoints, Eric Sermon (formerly of the rap duo, EPMD). Their collaboration is bringing back BBD’s classic style of ‘hip hop, smoothed out with an R&B tip, with a pop feel, appeal to it.’

The thing I most expect about BBD’s new joint is that they did NOT try to be something they’re not- they didn’t try to appeal to a 13-30 demographic; they didn’t get one of today’s faddy rappers to drop some garbage, auto-tune laced verses on their record; and they stuck with a hot producer like Eric Sermon, from back in the day versus an “in” producer of today, who would have just given them a faddy, wack track to flow to. Do your thing BBD! We’re rockin’ with y’all all day, everyday!

Check out Bell, Biv, DeVoe’s new joint and tell us what y’all think…

BBD’S NEW MUSIC VIDEO, “RUN”

This is called word of mouth #17 still climbing iTunes #run #BellBivDeVoe God bless BBD https://t.co/RjXMoVVlJQ

— Mike Biv (@617MikeBiv) September 13, 2016

So did Ricky Bell…
https://twitter.com/MrRickyBell/status/775767046164389888
Ronnie DeVoe wanted y’all to know this…

#WorldPremier • Click on the link. https://t.co/W6gK3UrHtI ^ Where we going? On a ride… ^ #run #BBD #BellBivDeVoe pic.twitter.com/MgUMso3pn4

— Big Ron DeVoe (@RonDeVoe) September 12, 2016

We’re looking forward to hearing the new BBD album in January and the New Edition biopic will also be releasing in 2017. If you haven’t seen the trailer for the N.E. movie, you can watch it here…

TRAILER FOR NEW EDITION’S BIOPIC

BEHIND THE SCENES OF NEW EDITION’S BIOPIC MOVIE

“POISON”

“TELL ME WHEN WILL I SEE YOU SMILE AGAIN”

“DO ME”

“SOMETHING IN YOUR EYES”

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