Poison (the song) was written and co-produced by one Dr. MCA officially released “Poison” on the 24th of February, 1990.
The song we’re working on today is the title track and lead single from the aforenoted album, which was put out by MCA Records, who also worked with New Edition. his New Edition backup singers – combined at the time. And this is despite Ralph arguably being more popular than Bell, Bivins and DeVoe – i.e. Meanwhile, the three other original members of the group – Ricky Bell, Michael Bivins and Ronnie DeVoe – well for starters, neither of them are particularly lead singer material. So they actually formed a trio called Bell Biv DeVoe or BBD for short.Īnd somewhat surprisingly their debut album, Poison, proved to be one of the most slappin’ LPs of 1990, even outperforming Tresvant’s aforementioned album. But going back to the ‘hood life, sometimes falling in love with a lady like that can and often does result in more, let’s say palpable forms of exploitation. And that would likely by why this track takes on such a serious-advisory tone, despite its somewhat comical, if you will, presentation.īell Biv DeVoe can be classified as an unofficial subunit of New Edition, the most-popular African-American boy band of the 1980s. Around the mid part of that decade a member of the quintet, Bobby Brown, went solo, leaving New Edition in sort of a state of flux. This contributed to lead singer Ralph Tresvant dropping his own debut solo album in 1990. Now when the more innocent amongst us read a statement like that, we may think of, say an exploitative woman having her lover/victim so p-ywhipped that she milks him dry. Freeze, he was inspired by his own personal experiences with “girls with nice shapes that take advantage and take a lot of people’s money’. Going back to the first paragraph of this post, based on the explanations of this piece provided by its actual writer, Dr. And by the way a ‘ho’ is used to describe a lady who, behind her lover’s back, sleeps with other dudes. The one implication, as presented by Ronnie in his verse, is that she may be overly-promiscuous or a ‘ho’ as they say in the ‘hood. Ronnie, Ricky and Mike don’t actually expound on how the subject(s) of this piece is so. Here, the homeys advise us to “never trust a big b-tt and smile”. That’s another way of saying, in street lingo, that no matter how physically appealing a woman may be, it behooves you, the romantically-interested male, to get to know her before actually trusting her.Īnd the stated reason is that no matter how “fly” or attractive a lady may be on the outside, internally she can be “poison”, i.e.
The most famous line of this piece is found in the pre-chorus.
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