It debuted and peaked at number 16 on the Billboard 200 album chart selling 56,000 copies in the first week. 'Hundreds and hundreds of screaming, shrieking girls basically stormed the stage and bum rushed the guys as they came off, chasing them down the field, jumping on the van, trying to climb on the van.' Invited by Kallman to have an audition in his hotel room at Loew's Miami Beach, Pretty Ricky was immediately offered a record deal on the spot.Īfter signing the deal, the song was re-recorded with familiar titles, ' Grind with Me' & 'Ride with Me', less explicit versions of their hit single, which led to their debut album Bluestars being released in May 2005. 'It was complete pandemonium,' Kallman recalled. Upon his arrival in Florida by December, he was amazed by the commotion the band had ignited at a Martin Luther King, Jr.

The station's interim program director, Tony the Tiger, afterwards sent the tune to Craig Kallman, Co-Chairman and also Chief Operating Officer of Atlantic Records. In 2004, Pretty Ricky created sensation when their next tune entitled ' Grind With Me' made its way to be the most requested song ever on Power 96 shortly after it was first played during 'Love Hour' program.

According to a 1999 story in The Miami Herald, the brothers were originally called Pretty Rickie & The Maverix, until the country group the Mavericks objected, and the brothers decided 'y' endings are 'more masculine' than 'i.e.''. Joe Smith is the father of the original 4 members. Pretty Ricky began performing together in 1997 in San Francisco, California signed to Bluestar Entertainment International by C.E.O.

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