Gerald Levert

All right.

Because I was pretty sure Gerald Levert was on there.

How old was Gerald Levert in 1992? Yeah.

1994.

1994.

going?

Gerald Levert.

There ain't nothing wrong with that either.

Yeah, but see, I'd be thinking a group, too, with him.

That's fine.

That's what I'm thinking of Gerald Levert.

That's what you're saying, man.

That's what you're saying.

That song is funny.

And y'all heard what him and Gerald LaVert said.

No sex in the champagne room.

Nope.

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Angela Anderson grew up inspired by artists including the Commodores and the OJs, and years later even had the chance to join Gerald Levert on stage.

Here's Angela Anderson with Blackberries.

Blackberries.

Yeah, it was like...

Yeah, A Rose by Any Other Name or whatever it is with Gerald LaVert.

Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.

That's the song.

Mm.

I'd met Johnny Gill in Cleveland with Gerald Levert.

Mm-hmm.

I bring Johnny Gill on the show, and he gets numbers, and that let me know, hey, it's not that Black people don't get numbers, it's that we ain't trying it.

That's right.

Mm-hmm.

And, uh, being from Cleveland, when I met Johnny and Gerald Levert, then Gerald calls me at a certain point when the show was on the air, and he has this track, Casanova.

He plays it over the phone, can't send it to me on a link.

It's very similar to how in the early 2000s, you had LSG.

So it was Gerald LaVert, Key Sweat, Johnny Gill, LSG.

You had TGT, Tank, Genuine, and Tyrese.

So you have them as individuals, but you create a new name for the entity so it can go.

It never quite got ...

You know, it's like Gerald Levert and his, his people.

They, they had them, that little curl package on their head.

It never just ...