Another Bad Creation
Encyclopedia
Another Bad Creation were an American
R&B
and rap
musical group from Atlanta, Georgia
.
.
ABC’s debut album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!
was released on February 11, 1991. The album’s two biggest single
s were the first and second singles: “Iesha
” and “Playground
”, respectively, which reached the top ten on both the R&B
and pop
charts (the latter was also the group’s only showing so far on the Dance
chart). A cover of New Edition
’s song “Jealous Girl
” followed, as well as the singles “Spydermann
” and “My World
”. The album reached #7 on the Billboard 200
and eventually went platinum
.
During this time, Mark and Dave appeared among other children (including Macaulay Culkin
) in a scene from Michael Jackson
's video for "Black or White". Also during this time, all the members of ABC made their only movie
appearance to date, as characters in The Meteor Man
(which also featured appearances from various other musician
s). They all dyed their hair blond
e for the movie, a style they also showcased in the video
for the East Coast Family’s only collective song, “1-4-All-4-1”.
On March 3, 1993 Another Bad Creation appeared on sketch comedy show In Living Color
. Keenen Ivory Wayans
introduced them by comparing them to The Jackson 5
, New Edition
, Boys II Men and now Another Bad Creation. The group then sang Iesha.
ABC’s second album It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It
was released on September 21, 1993. Neither the album nor any of its singles charted on any Billboard
chart. Shortly after, they broke up.
Most recently, there was a trailer for a documentary on this group online. But there has also been a petition made to request and convince VH1
, which showed some interest in the project, to go on with its plans. It's uncertain whether the trailer was by the channel or not.
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...
R&B
Rhythm and blues
Rhythm and blues, often abbreviated to R&B, is a genre of popular African American music that originated in the 1940s. The term was originally used by record companies to describe recordings marketed predominantly to urban African Americans, at a time when "urbane, rocking, jazz based music with a...
and rap
Hip hop music
Hip hop music, also called hip-hop, rap music or hip-hop music, is a musical genre consisting of a stylized rhythmic music that commonly accompanies rapping, a rhythmic and rhyming speech that is chanted...
musical group from Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta, Georgia
Atlanta is the capital and most populous city in the U.S. state of Georgia. According to the 2010 census, Atlanta's population is 420,003. Atlanta is the cultural and economic center of the Atlanta metropolitan area, which is home to 5,268,860 people and is the ninth largest metropolitan area in...
.
History
ABC consists of Romell “RoRo” Chapman, Chris Sellers, David Shelton and brothers Demetrius and Marliss (“Red” and “Mark”, respectively) Pugh, as well as “unofficial” member Adrian “G.A.” (General Austin) Witcher. They were discovered by Michael BivinsMichael Bivins
Michael Lamont Bivins, a.k.a. Biv , is the founder and member of the R&B group New Edition and the hip hop group Bell Biv DeVoe...
.
ABC’s debut album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!
Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!
-Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*arranging – Dallas Austin*engineering – Dallas Austin, Jim Hinger, Darin Prindle, Christopher Shaw, Rick Sheppard...
was released on February 11, 1991. The album’s two biggest single
Single (music)
In music, a single or record single is a type of release, typically a recording of fewer tracks than an LP or a CD. This can be released for sale to the public in a variety of different formats. In most cases, the single is a song that is released separately from an album, but it can still appear...
s were the first and second singles: “Iesha
Iesha
"Iesha" is the debut single by Another Bad Creation, from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Released on October 19, 1990, the song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #6 on the R&B chart.-Track listings:US Vinyl, 12"...
” and “Playground
Playground (song)
"Playground" is a single by Another Bad Creation, from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Released on March 25, 1991, the song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #4 on the R&B chart, and #36 on the Dance chart.-Track listings:...
”, respectively, which reached the top ten on both the R&B
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs
Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,...
and pop
Billboard Hot 100
The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday...
charts (the latter was also the group’s only showing so far on the Dance
Hot Dance Club Play
The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs...
chart). A cover of New Edition
New Edition
New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
’s song “Jealous Girl
Popcorn Love/Jealous Girl
"Popcorn Love/Jealous Girl" is a double A-side single by New Edition. Released in 1983, the single reached #25 on the R&B chart.-Charts:-Cover version:...
” followed, as well as the singles “Spydermann
Spydermann
“Spydermann” is a single by Another Bad Creation. It was released on November 26, 1991 as the fourth single from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!...
” and “My World
My World (Another Bad Creation song)
-Chart performance:The single was released on December 13, 1991 as the fifth and final single from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! It reached #77 on the R&B chart, and it is the last single from the group so far to have charted on any Billboard chart....
”. The album reached #7 on the Billboard 200
Billboard 200
The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists...
and eventually went platinum
RIAA certification
In the United States, the Recording Industry Association of America awards certification based on the number of albums and singles sold through retail and other ancillary markets. Other countries have similar awards...
.
During this time, Mark and Dave appeared among other children (including Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Culkin
Macaulay Carson Culkin is an American actor. He became widely known for his portrayal of Kevin McCallister in Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York. He is also known for his roles in Richie Rich, Uncle Buck, My Girl, The Pagemaster, and Party Monster...
) in a scene from Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson
Michael Joseph Jackson was an American recording artist, entertainer, and businessman. Referred to as the King of Pop, or by his initials MJ, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records...
's video for "Black or White". Also during this time, all the members of ABC made their only movie
Film
A film, also called a movie or motion picture, is a series of still or moving images. It is produced by recording photographic images with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or visual effects...
appearance to date, as characters in The Meteor Man
The Meteor Man (film)
The Meteor Man is a 1993 superhero film written, directed, and starring Robert Townsend, and featuring an ensemble cast. Townsend stars as a mild-mannered schoolteacher, who becomes a superhero after his neighborhood in Washington, D.C. is terrorized by street gangs.Although the film is set in...
(which also featured appearances from various other musician
Musician
A musician is an artist who plays a musical instrument. It may or may not be the person's profession. Musicians can be classified by their roles in performing music and writing music.Also....* A person who makes music a profession....
s). They all dyed their hair blond
Blond
Blond or blonde or fair-hair is a hair color characterized by low levels of the dark pigment eumelanin. The resultant visible hue depends on various factors, but always has some sort of yellowish color...
e for the movie, a style they also showcased in the video
Music video
A music video or song video is a short film integrating a song and imagery, produced for promotional or artistic purposes. Modern music videos are primarily made and used as a marketing device intended to promote the sale of music recordings...
for the East Coast Family’s only collective song, “1-4-All-4-1”.
On March 3, 1993 Another Bad Creation appeared on sketch comedy show In Living Color
In Living Color
In Living Color is an American sketch comedy television series, which originally ran on the Fox Network from April 15, 1990 to May 19, 1994. Brothers Keenen and Damon Wayans created, wrote, and starred in the program. The show was produced by Ivory Way Productions in association with 20th Century...
. Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans
Keenen Ivory Wayans is an American actor, comedian, director and writer known as the host and creator of the FOX sketch comedy series In Living Color, which also starred Jim Carrey, Jamie Foxx, brothers Damon Wayans, Shawn Wayans and Marlon Wayans, sister Kim Wayans, David Alan Grier, Tommy...
introduced them by comparing them to The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5
The Jackson 5 , later known as The Jacksons, were an American popular music family group from Gary, Indiana...
, New Edition
New Edition
New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
, Boys II Men and now Another Bad Creation. The group then sang Iesha.
ABC’s second album It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It
It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It
It Ain’t What U Wear, It’s How U Play It is the second album from Another Bad Creation. It was released on September 21, 1993 on Motown Records.-Chart performance:The album was a commercial failure, as it failed to enter any Billboard chart...
was released on September 21, 1993. Neither the album nor any of its singles charted on any Billboard
Billboard charts
The Billboard charts tabulate the relative weekly popularity of songs or albums in the United States. The results are published in Billboard magazine...
chart. Shortly after, they broke up.
Most recently, there was a trailer for a documentary on this group online. But there has also been a petition made to request and convince VH1
VH1
VH1 or Vh1 is an American cable television network based in New York City. Launched on January 1, 1985 in the old space of Turner Broadcasting's short-lived Cable Music Channel, the original purpose of the channel was to build on the success of MTV by playing music videos, but targeting a slightly...
, which showed some interest in the project, to go on with its plans. It's uncertain whether the trailer was by the channel or not.
Albums
| Year | Title | Chart positions | Certifications (sales thresholds Music recording sales certification Music recording sales certification is a system of certifying that a music recording has shipped or sold a certain number of copies, where the threshold quantity varies by type and by nation or territory .Almost all countries follow variations of the RIAA certification categories,... ) |
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| U.S. Billboard 200 The Billboard 200 is a ranking of the 200 highest-selling music albums and EPs in the United States, published weekly by Billboard magazine. It is frequently used to convey the popularity of an artist or groups of artists... |
U.S. R&B Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums is a chart published by Billboard magazine that ranks R&B and hip hop albums based on sales compiled by Nielsen SoundScan. The name of the chart was changed from Top R&B Albums in 1999... |
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| 1991 | Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! -Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*arranging – Dallas Austin*engineering – Dallas Austin, Jim Hinger, Darin Prindle, Christopher Shaw, Rick Sheppard...
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7 | 2 |
Recording Industry Association of America The Recording Industry Association of America is a trade organization that represents the recording industry distributors in the United States... : Platinum |
| 1993 | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It It Ain’t What U Wear, It’s How U Play It is the second album from Another Bad Creation. It was released on September 21, 1993 on Motown Records.-Chart performance:The album was a commercial failure, as it failed to enter any Billboard chart... |
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Singles
| Year | Song | U.S. Hot 100 Billboard Hot 100 The Billboard Hot 100 is the United States music industry standard singles popularity chart issued weekly by Billboard magazine. Chart rankings are based on radio play and sales; the tracking-week for sales begins on Monday and ends on Sunday, while the radio play tracking-week runs from Wednesday... |
U.S. R&B Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Songs, is a chart released weekly by Billboard in the United States.The chart, initiated in 1942, is used to track the success of popular music songs in urban, or primarily African American, venues. Dominated over the years at various times by jazz, rhythm and blues, doo-wop, soul,... |
U.S. D/C Hot Dance Club Play The Hot Dance Club Songs chart is a weekly national survey of the songs that are most popular in U.S. dance clubs... |
Album |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | "Iesha Iesha "Iesha" is the debut single by Another Bad Creation, from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Released on October 19, 1990, the song reached #9 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and #6 on the R&B chart.-Track listings:US Vinyl, 12"... " |
9 | 6 | 1 | Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! -Album:-Singles:"—" denotes releases that did not chart.-Personnel:Information taken from Allmusic.*arranging – Dallas Austin*engineering – Dallas Austin, Jim Hinger, Darin Prindle, Christopher Shaw, Rick Sheppard... |
| 1991 | "Playground Playground (song) "Playground" is a single by Another Bad Creation, from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! Released on March 25, 1991, the song reached #10 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart, #4 on the R&B chart, and #36 on the Dance chart.-Track listings:... " |
10 | 4 | 36 | |
| "Jealous Girl" | - | 25 | - | ||
| 1992 | "Spydermann Spydermann “Spydermann” is a single by Another Bad Creation. It was released on November 26, 1991 as the fourth single from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know!... " |
- | - | - | |
| "My World My World (Another Bad Creation song) -Chart performance:The single was released on December 13, 1991 as the fifth and final single from the album Coolin' at the Playground Ya Know! It reached #77 on the R&B chart, and it is the last single from the group so far to have charted on any Billboard chart.... " |
- | 77 | - | ||
| 1993 | "I Don't Wanna Be Grown Up I Don't Wanna Be Grown Up "I Don’t Wanna Be Grown Up" is the first single from Another Bad Creation's second album It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It. It was released on October 12, 1993.-Music video:The video was directed by Rebecca Blake... " |
- | - | - | It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It It Ain’t What U Wear, It’s How U Play It is the second album from Another Bad Creation. It was released on September 21, 1993 on Motown Records.-Chart performance:The album was a commercial failure, as it failed to enter any Billboard chart... |
| "Where's Ya Little Sista? Where's Ya Little Sista? "Where's Ya Little Sista?" is the second and final single from Another Bad Creation's second album It Ain't What U Wear, It's How U Play It. It was released on February 22, 1994.-Track list:LP Record... " |
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External links
- Another Bad Creation at DiscogsDiscogsDiscogs, short for discographies, is a website and database of information about audio recordings, including commercial releases, promotional releases, and bootleg or off-label releases. The Discogs servers, currently hosted under the domain name discogs.com, are owned by Zink Media, Inc., and are...