It’s been 15 years since their first album…damn I’m getting old!
‘Thong Song’ Sisqo has recently revealed what was behind Dru Hill’s split – apparently it was because Woody left, twice!
After having starting as a quartet and debuting their first record ‘Tell Me’ in 1996 – the harmonizing recruited another member in 2002 and became a group of five. But, this wasn’t meant to be and the group returned to it’s original size although losing one of the founding members in the process.
Sisqo explains to VIBE what happened:
VIBE: There seems to be a lot of tension in Dru Hill. How did you guys fall apart?
Sisqo: A couple of factors played into what we had to do. When we left our old distribution, everybody went their separate ways and in doing that, that separated us and after a while of working solo everybody just – actually with Keith Sweat, when we decided to come back together the first show we did was with him and that’s when he gave us the idea for Platinum House
VIBE: Did you have resentment toward Woody for leaving twice?
SISQO: It really wasn’t resentment. Originally, we were talking about getting back together as a group and I guess he had a change of heart but he didn’t really voice that until we got on the radio and that’s really what the biggest issue was because it was like the second time that we were doing something really big and Woody had a change of heart in the middle of something. The first time he had a change of heart, we were on the set of the “Wild Wild West” video. That’s why if you look at the “Wild Wild West” video, in the beginning you see all four of us and then at the end you see three of us. So I think that’s where the frustration came from, like, “Wow, you didn’t have to say this on the radio. First time it was on the video, now it’s on the radio. You could have told us this before we got to this point.” And the reason Woody left, I felt like maybe he did have something to say and we weren’t listening. But it’s not necessarily that we weren’t listening. It’s four different guys with four different opinions and sometimes your opinion isn’t best for the whole group but that doesn’t mean that weren’t listening. I’ve had several ideas that haven’t gone through but you gotta pick and choose your battles.
VIBE: Looking back what would you have done better as far as group communication?
SISQO: It wasn’t a whole lot we could do. We came out of high school into the music industry. And doing the best you can to break as an artist is a full time night and day kind of job so you gotta grow up really fast. So it’s not really an option to hold one another’s hand. You just gotta make it happen. So I wouldn’t say that we didn’t do anything. I think it was more so just growing up and knowing when to voice your opinion, that way things are smoother. I really felt like I did all I could. Woody and I are still cool. I just spoke to him a couple of days ago and he’s definitely working on music on my next solo project.
Hey…I just had to throw in my favorite Dru Hill song.
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