Spending just three short years in the music industry but making a lasting impression on America’s teens in the early 2000s, the urban boy band B2K jumped through hoops to become a household name among every American teenage girl born in the late ‘80s or ‘90s. Despite developing in the boy band era in the company of groups like the Backstreet Boys and *NSYNC, B2K had a more R&B-type style that set the group apart from the generic finger-snapping, Macarena-dancing boy bands that emerged toward the end of the ‘90s.The attractive and young B2K quartet, comprised of members Omari Grandberry (a.k.a. Omarion), Dreux Frederic (a.k.a. Lil Fizz), DeMario Thornton (a.k.a. Raz-B), and Jarell Houston (a.k.a. J-Boog), emerged onto the music scene with their debut single “Uh Huh” in 2001. The single became a Billboard hit, and the hopeful response to “Uh Huh” led to the group’s debut self-titled album in 2002, which unleashed the hit songs “Gots ta Be” and “Why I Love You,” both of which landed on the Billboard charts while the album peaked at number two. B2K’s second album, Pandemonium!, contained the band’s next hit single “Bump, Bump, Bump,” but B2K’s greatest success was perhaps yet to come.In 2004 B2K appeared in the movie You Got Served, and also had songs on the film’s soundtrack. You Got Served, a film featuring urban hip-hop and dance, took in over $16 million its first weekend, and even though the film’s success launched B2K into crossover stardom, the band’s victory was short-lived. Just two weeks before You Got Served came out in movie theaters, B2K announced the group was splitting up due to internal disagreements. Part of B2K lives on, however, as member Omarion has continued in the music industry with a well-received solo career, his debut album O reaching number one on the charts in 2005.