LovHer - To Know Her Is To LovHer (2002)

LovHer was an American R&B girl group, and was the first female group on the Def Soul label. The group was formed in 1999 by Sisqó, lead singer of R&B group Dru Hill, who wanted to put together a girl group that would present a raw, "street" appeal. Like Dru Hill, LovHer's members are known by hip hop nicknames: Talia "Chinky" Burgess, Marthea "Buttah" Jackson, Samerrah "Serenade" Terrell, and Kienji Hakeem. In 1999, LovHer made their first appearance in Sisqó's 'Got to Get It' music video, and performed vocals on his 1999 album 'Unleash The Dragon', and its follow-up, 2001's 'Return Of Dragon'. In 2002, their song 'How It's Gonna Be' was released as a single from the 2001 'Rush Hour 2' soundtrack, peaking at number 60 on the Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs chart, and the group was nominated for the Soul Train Lady of Soul award for Best R&B/Soul or Rap New Artist. After a second single, 'Girlfriend', failed to repeat the success of the first one, the group was dropped by Def Soul, and the album that they'd recorded was eventually shelved. In 2007, Kienji left the group, and after a brief attempt at continuing as a trio, the remaining members of the group split up. As so often happened in the late 90's and early 2000's, labels only had an eye on the dollar, and if a group wasn't instantly successful then they were unceremoniously dumped, and fine albums like this one were destined never to be heard...until now.   

Track listing

01 Intro 
02 How It's Gonna Be
03 Your Man 
04 Girls Gonna Do
05 Girlfriend (Interlude) 
06 Girlfriend 
07 Love 
08 Do You Know Me 
09 Don't Leave
10 I Don't Want Your Man 
11 What Could've Been 
12 Commitment
13 Club (Interlude)
14 You Don't Know Me (feat. Sisqo)
15 Happy Days
16 Black Butterfly