GUY: Groove Trendsetters Introduce New Sounds and Uptown Style to R&B Music
Picture a festive night without the typical posturing, ice-grilling and high-post profiling. It's New Year's Eve 1990 at Club Spotlite. You're playing the back with your third Long Island Iced Tea. You're kicking it with the waitress so drinks are on the house all night. A couple hours til her shift is up and you both are outta here. Fly girl Uniqua is holding court at the bar, gyrating to the music as her silky bob keeps time with the beat. The heat radiating from her barely-there outfit is twice as hot as the three-man crew rocking the stage tonight. The music is crazy and the lead singer's riffs are transforming the spot into a church revival. You pan the crowd and check Nino Brown getting hype in the middle of the dance floor among the regular folk without a bodyguard in sight. All of a sudden you hear the opening bars of your favorite jam and you rush the floor like a dope fiend at an open drug bazaar.... ...