Sisqo jumps into a Range Rover (while someone pleads for him to stop because he's "not supposed to be driving"), and Nokio throws punches at Woody as 92Q staff and Jazz try to separate them. A YouTube clip with more than 600,000 views shows Sisqo storming out of the station. The group's embarrassment over Woody's decision quickly gave way to anger and mild chaos. To the shock of his bandmates, Woody announced he had been "called by God on an assignment," effectively killing the reunion before it started. While on the air, James "Woody" Green, a member of Dru Hill since he was 15, unexpectedly quit for a second time - the first was in June 1999. Except with Dru Hill, nothing is ever that simple. Six years and a greatest-hits compilation later, the group appeared on 92Q to announce its big comeback. The group's third album, 2002's "Dru World Order," was a disappointment, marking the first Dru Hill album not to go platinum. Four black guys might not have worked in that same place." As a solo artist, Sisqo eclipsed his bandmates, which caused tension and uncertainty about Dru Hill's future. "I was Token on 'South Park.' I was the black guy, and it was awesome. "I was there with Britney, 'N Sync and Christina Aguilera," said Sisqo, who still travels with a security guard. He said timing was everything, and suggested the pop climate at the time wasn't right for Dru Hill. As is the case for much of Dru Hill's history, Sisqo's star shone brightest. Sisqo's solo success came as the group went on hiatus, with each member focusing on his own music. In 2000, while riding the success of the summer hit "Thong Song," Sisqo's debut solo album, "Unleash the Dragon," went on to sell more than 5 million records - more than any of Dru Hill's albums. Dru Hill was strong out of the gate, with a platinum (selling more than 1 million copies) self-titled debut album in 1996 and a 1998 double-platinum follow-up, "Enter the Dru." As the group's fame grew, so did Sisqo's, as the de facto lead singer with the flashy blond hair. In the pop world, it seems like an eternity since Dru Hill, and in particular Sisqo, has dominated the charts. 30 on the Billboard 200 and failed to recapture the national buzz the group once had. "InDRUpendence Day," the group's fourth album, which was released in July 2010, isn't just a pun - it's Dru Hill's first record released independently and not on Def Soul, a subsidiary of Universal Music Group. Sisqo said the group will pick the show's set order out of a hat. On Saturday, the group will take the stage at Rams Head Live for three sets - one with Dru Hill, one with Sisqo and one with Black Angel Down, Nokio and Tao's rock band. Now, Dru Hill is a group focused on leaving the past where it belongs, with a renewed focus on achieving success without a major label. There have been platinum albums, seven Top 40 hits, international tours, one member's overshadowing solo career, extended hiatuses, public infighting, members quitting, new members and, most recently, an inability to reclaim the spotlight. What began as four friends singing for customers at an Inner Harbor fudge shop has evolved into a group worthy of its own "Behind the Music" episode. You can't learn or grow without that." If growth is measured by success and turmoil, Dru Hill has been on legendary spurt over the past 20 years. "That may be the front that's put up, but you have the family members no one talks about, the members that do all the wild stuff. "I don't know anybody that has a family where everything is just cool," said Nokio, 32. Just not the suburban, picket-fence kind. To the group's members - Mark "Sisqo" Andrews, Larry "Jazz" Anthony, Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin and Antwuan "Tao" Simpson - Dru Hill is family. Above all else, Dru Hill is a loving but complicated brotherhood that's been through it all. Dru Hill is many things - Baltimore's most successful R&B act the group with the "Thong Song" lead singer that '90s group that disappeared in the next decade, only to resurface on a little-watched reality TV show.
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