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Genre:
R&B
Release Date: 10/27/1998
The best of the late-'90s
R&B crooning quartets ups the musical ante on their sophomore album, lacing the silky-smooth grooves with splashes of street-tough shouts that are meant to antagonize as much as they are to seduce. And for a good deal of
Enter the Dru, the formula works. There's a gutsy edge to the songs here (especially the hard-knocking
"How Deep Is Your Love") that make one-time peers like
Boyz II Men sound like the soulless
R&B robots they are. Even when they get all warm and cozy with
Babyface on the potentially mushy
"These Are the Times" (in spite the absurdity of the straight-faced line "Tear you up in little pieces/Swallow you like Reese's Pieces"),
Dru Hill slice into the section of '90s
soul music that crosses bedroom come-ons with classic street savvy (and nervy beats) without sounding at all whipped.
~Michael Gallucci, All Music Guide
;)
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