Where is dalvin from jodeci

If you hear the original version, the harmonies were mellowed out. I took a smoother approach with the song and made it more meaningful. Dalvin: I had a different team of people. Now I have my assistant who is a huge inspiration. She makes me take this K. MUZIK thing seriously and start producing music. Now I have the independent freedom to do whatever I want. We just put our heads together and come up with song and video concepts.

I might release a heavy metal song next week and I can do it. Now I get a chance to really show creatively what my input was. Dalvin: As far as us going forward, K. MUZIK is going to have artists under the umbrella. I just want to keep releasing records and possibly there will be an album coming soon from me.

I also have a lot of remixes coming soon too. What does Jodeci mean to you at this point? Dalvin: I tell the guys in my group all the time, we built a mansion and we just moved out and left all the furniture. Everyone is getting rich off it except us. We just built this magnificent house and then we checked out. I love Jodeci. It was in my head. I was hearing chaos every time I turned the radio on, something is happening with shootings and other things. Just to break the ice a bit.

Dalvin: Before Covid came and put the breaks on everything, I was in the studio everyday. I had this whole idea of what I wanted to do for a solo project this time. I just wanted to make it what I am. Jodeci is the collaboration of all four of us together. I wanted to take my piece of the pie to show people what I really do without being guided by people that just see what they see from me. This Covid came and I was forced to sit down and redirect where I was going. I think a lot of people have had to do this in their careers.

I learned how to start engineering my projects. This started giving me all of these different ideas of what I could do, production wise and different types of songs. All of my ideas changed drastically. Dalvin: The music business is so different from when Jodeci put out records, and even when I put out my first album. Everything is online and the internet and streaming. There is really no record company to take your project, unless you sign with a major. You can pay for promotion over here, and this and that.

There is no artist development or real sense of having a family at a label. Independent is harder but you have control over everything you do. How you are seen and heard. It all depends on how far you want to go and what you want to do with it. You never lose your talent, you learn how to transfer it to new technology. How would you put it in your own words? Everybody has a role to play to make the team win the game.

Jodeci was Jodeci because everything worked hand in hand. Our fashion, which was a major part of who we were, that came from me. Our whole swag was basically me. Our look overall. Diddy came in and sprinkled some seasoning at the beginning but through our careers it was always me hands down, I was in charge of everything we wore and how we looked. When it came to putting the shows together I was always in charge of that. Ultimately people will discover it slowly but surely. All four of us made Jodeci.

Talk about creating the remix. DeVante even called me and asked me to send him the song. He said the whole group should be in the video! So JoJo is in it. But DeVante said he wanted the whole group to be in it because he was really loving the song!

Eliza Legzdina. She Belongs To The Night. Feel f. Zaki - Vocal Mix. Traveling Big Room Mix feat. Cordell McClary. Turn Me On feat. Bebe Rexha. Princess Cuts feat. Wag1 feat. Verify feat. Keep on, Keepin' On. Gal Policy Remix feat. Loyal East Coast Version Instrumental. Baby You Bring Me Up. Nobody's Business Dreem Team Remix. Feenin' Instrumental. How Do U Want it? Love U 4 Life Instrumental. Come Up To My Room feat.

Tha Dogg Pound. Jodeci Freestyle feat. You Got It feat. Let's Go Through The Motions. Won't Waste You feat. We got hundreds of songs we recorded. But for this project we took time and created new songs. It's not like we dug way back into and brought some of that older music out.

As far as when Jodeci stopped releasing music, was that a conscious decision, was there an actual conversation about it? We did the merger with Wu-Tang and we stayed relevant for a long time. Then it was like, let's just let the hip-hop era come through. Did the label have anything to say about it? Save the juice. Let it marinate. You don't need to try to force something. Would there have been anyone who could have convinced ya'll to keep going? Did you expect K-Ci and JoJo to work as a duo for so long?

That's long before we had a record deal. The first one was successful, and we came back and said D, you ready? He said 'Nah, do another one. We was fans. So that's how that was. We saw K-Ci and JoJo releasing music and even in a reality show.

I wish Devante was here, because one of my bigger questions is what were Devante and Dalvin up to for those 20 years? I worked with Mariah Carey, Mary J. Blige—producing, writing, and understanding the business of the music. Preparing for Jodeci always. So to keep up with you, we would've had to check the credits a little harder? Now, behind closed doors, let's be just as successful when you go to the bank.

Let's be successful in things you want to achieve in life not only on the stage but off the stage. That's what becomes really important as you become wiser and older in the music business and about the flash and the fast cars, it's about getting your business straight and setting yourself up for the rest of your life. K-CI: We used to live that fast life, but we was young then.

We didn't know, we didn't understand, we didn't care. The older you get you see the business part of it. In the beginning it was cars or trying to have a whole bunch of jewelry and girls and stuff, but we see now. Way back in the day though, that that was what it was about.