Dru Hill

With its first release, this Baltimore quartet turned New Jack Swing inside out. Instead of R&B vocal harmonies with hip-hop flavor, Dru Hill fronted like a hip-hop outfit before revealing its crushed-velvet soul. The group negotiated its persona through mere sound, balancing the rich and the real for surefire chick-bait. Keith Sweat's production is plush on the cheap, and the singers' homeboy-nex...