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Troop Collected

52.4M streams

52,380,977

Attitude

48.9M streams

48,940,666

THE Baby Makers

3M streams

2,993,991

Troop

2.5M streams

2,526,729

Deepa

1.8M streams

1,841,818

Mayday 2k17

1.2M streams

1,207,225

Mayday

1.1M streams

1,125,586

The Slow Songs

428.4K streams

428,415

A Lil' Sumpin' Sumpin'

346.8K streams

346,794

Deepa (Revisited)

130.6K streams

130,618

Biography

Troop began as a teen group that won $1000 on Puttin' on the Hits, a nationally televised contest, by dancing and lip-synching to New Edition's "Cool It Now." The Pasadena, California quintet -- Rodney Benford, John Harreld, Allen McNeil, Steve Russell, and Reggie Warren -- were then signed to Atlantic, and their 1988 debut single, the LeVert-produced "Mamacita," taken from their self-titled album, reached number two on Billboard's Hot Soul Singles chart. Their second album, 1989's Attitude, featured two number one Hot Soul singles -- including the Chuckii Booker collaboration "Spread My Wings" -- and earned an RIAA gold certification. Deepa, released in 1992, was a creative step forward and contained yet another Hot Soul chart topper in "Sweet November," a Deele cover, but the group subsequently went independent with two more full-lengths released later in the decade. Troop went inactive for several years but occasionally recorded and toured. In 2013, they released a single titled "Forever." Within the music industry, Russell had the most success outside the group as part of the songwriting and production team the Underdogs. ~ Ron Wynn & Andy Kellman, Rovi