Wilbur Gerrell Gaddis, better known by his stage name Rell, was born on 22 July 1976 in Bowman, South Carolina. He signed to Roc-A-Fella Records in 1997, being the first male R&B singer to sign to New York City-based label, and he began work on his debut album which was tentatively titled, 'Medicine'. Rell got his break in 1998, appearing in Jay-Z's rap cult flick 'Streets Is Watching', and contributing the club banger 'Love For Free' to the movie's soundtrack. Within the latter part of 1998, he renamed his debut 'The Remedy', and re-released 'Love For Free' as the lead single. In 1999, two other singles, 'When Will U See' and 'Darlin'', were released as radio buzz singles for the album, but within the first quarter of that year 'The Remedy' was shelved due to the failed charting of the singles. Still signed to the Roc-A-Fella, he went on to sing hooks for nearly every one of the label's MC;s since, including Freeway's 'Victim Of The Ghetto' and appearing on 'The Message' featuring Mary J. Blige, from Dr. Dre's '2001'. In 2001, he met agreeable terms with Jay-Z, and began retooling his cancelled debut, and the project spawned a new and official lead single titled, 'If That's My Baby'. While the album was scheduled for a September release, after a second single, 'It's Obvious' was released, the album was re-scheduled to be released in spring 2002, but in early 2002 the reworked version of 'The Remedy' was shelved again.
In 2004, Rell began work on yet another project, titled 'Long Time Coming', and for a promotion of the album, he released several leftover tracks from the cancelled 'The Remedy' project on numerous mixtapes and limited Roc-a-Fella EP samplers. In 2005 Rell released 'Real Love' as the lead single for 'Long Time Coming', but in the midst of the release, he was moved from the Roc-A-Fella label to Dame Dash Music Group, and under the new label, 'Long Time Coming' was scheduled to be released in May 2006. Unfortunately disagreements and lack of promotion from the new label ended up with Rell's second album being shelved, and he initially split from the label. In 2007, he appeared on collaborations with Latin reggaeton artists Don Omar and Zion, and he also wrote the title track for Usher's 2008 album 'Here I Stand'. In 2009, he teamed with Tre Williams to form 'The Revelations', who released their debut album, 'The Bleeding Edge', in October 2009, but Rell has yet to release an album under his own name, so to "remedy" that, here is the first of his shelved albums.
Track listing
01 If That's My Baby
02 Bring It On Home
03 Cloud 9
04 Get Up
05 Ghetto Stash
06 Never Knew A Love
07 Never Stop
08 Serious
09 Say It Ain't So
10 It's Obvious
11 The Reason
12 U And Me
13 When Will You See
14 Next Train
