In 2005 the band toured with Omarion and other pop-friendly R&B acts in the Scream Tour IV concert series. The band specialized in synthesizer-heavy R&B with lyrics that were heavily romantic and often raunchy “Grind With Me,” a sanitized version of their hit single, powered their debut album Bluestars.
In 2004, Pretty Ricky’s single “Grind On Me” began to get heavy airplay on Miami radio, which lead to a deal with Atlantic Records and national exposure.
(Early reports said that Joe Smith is the father of all four, though only Spectacular and Baby Blue have the same mother. As of 2018, Wikipedia suggested that only Baby Blue and Spectacular are brothers, with Slick ‘Em as a cousin and Pleasure P as a “family friend.”) The boys began performing together in 1997, with Joe “Blue” Smith taking the role of manager and taskmaster. A product of the Miami music scene, Pretty Ricky began as a band of four young men who went by musical pseudonyms: the rappers Slick ‘Em, Baby Blue and Spectacular, and the crooner Pleasure P.
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