I can remember the first time I laid eyes on the R&B group Dru Hill. Their video for the smash single ‘Tell Me’ was on BET and I liked the dance that they were doing each time the chorus was repeated throughout the song. I smiled and thought to myself that they were definitely going to be huge, but at the same time, I couldn’t help but ask as I chuckled, ‘who’s the brotha with blond hair?’ Of course, my prediction of them achieving much success would come to fruition producing classic jams like the aforementioned ‘Tell Me’, ‘In My Bed’, ‘Beauty’ and ‘We’re Not Making Love’ to name a few, but little did I know that I would actually have the opportunity to speak with the gentlemen via teleconference in celebration of their fourth album InDRUpendence Day--their first body of work released independently via their own label Dru Hill, LLC in conjunction with Kedar Entertainment; symbolizing the notion that they are stepping out on their own and taking their careers and destinies into their own hands, fully capable of being creative and doing whatever it is that needs to be done in order to continue along in the business.

The message is quite simple to the world: They are back. Wiser, stronger and very capable of handling their own business. And now after a seven year break from the mainstream spotlight, it’s once again all about the Dru—Mark "Sisqo" Andrews, Tamir "Nokio" Ruffin, Larry "Jazz" Anthony and new member Antwuan "Tao" Simpson (pronounced Tay-oh), who replaced original member James "Woody" Green, after Green decided to follow a calling to gospel music.