EXCLUSIVE! PLEASURE P TELLS RIGHT ON! WHY HE LEFT PRETTY RICKY!

PLEASURE P let us pick his brain for the COVERSTORY of our JUNE/JULY 2009 RIGHT ON!issue titled THE PLEASURE PRINCIPLE.

 “Why did I leave Pretty Ricky? I’m just going to say I was on T.V. every day and my momma still lives in the hood.  I’m not gonna say no more…” -PLEASURE P

After three years with the widely popular, grindin’ boy band known as PRETTY RICKY, things got ugly when rumors of behind-the-scene power struggles ended in the group’s only R&B singer PLEASURE P leaving his band of “brothers” behind. Now the twenty-four-year-old Florida native hopes to set the record straight with his debut solo album aptly titled The Introduction of Marcus Cooper. Here the singer promises to mix business with pleasure. 

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For our special doule music issue, MAINO graced the back cover of RIGHT ON!’S 2009 JUNE/JULY issue  for our BACK STORY titled, “The Swagger Of Sincerity.”

In an era where everyone (mama and auntie included) is on a personal quest to bring hip-hop back from wherever it went, one artist never lost touch with the genre. After the overwhelming success of his first single “Hi Hater” (even Oprah’s best friend Gayle calls the single her favorite) and the release of his current smash “All Of The Above,” Brooklyn, NY native MAINO is no longer just a mixtape rapper, he’s a man with a treasure map leading straight to the top and his new album, If Tomorrow Comes, is the proverbial X marking his spot.  

But don’t expect Maino to switch up his blue print. While other big name artists rely on their stylist’s fashion sense and the monotonous proclamation of being different, Maino relies on the man he’s always been.

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