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The name "Pretty Ricky" was taken from a character in the sitcom Martin.

After he departed in 2007 to embark on a solo career, the group shuffled through several replacement vocalists. Pleasure P was the group's main singer while the other three members performed as rappers. The group originally consisted of brothers Diamond Blue (Baby Blue) Smith and Spectacular Smith, plus Corey (Slick 'Em) Mathis and Marcus ( Pleasure P) Cooper. Now they’re the veterans, and the fingerprints of their iconic style are all over the hip-hop industry.Pretty Ricky is an American R&B/ hip hop group originating from Miami, Florida. Pretty Ricky began this millennium as upstarts blending together rap and R&B. After a three-year hiatus that ended in 2015, the group spent the rest of the 2010s touring, then in early 2020 released a new single, “Body”, that showcased their penchant for raunchy hooks and rapidfire flows. They followed up “Flossin’” with “Ride With Me”, which infiltrated dance floors and bedrooms across the country due to Pleasure P’s infectious chorus and the unrelenting energy of the group’s rap verses. Pleasure P―while brothers Ala Diamond and Spectacular Smith rap alongside fourth member Corey Mathis, giving Pretty Ricky an edge over more traditional artists that emphasised sultry vocal performances. The band is fronted by Marcus Cooper―a.k.a.

In their early days, the group pioneered an electric, sexified revamp of the genre, alongside a new generation of stars and acts like Usher, Omarion and 112. Their first single, “Flossin’”, was inescapable thanks to its constant appearance on the Florida Power 96 station, and just a few years later, they leveraged that local goodwill into a national audience that became enamoured with their intoxicatingly fresh play on R&B.

Back in 2002, when regional success was the surest way of predicting superstardom, no group was bigger in Miami than the neo-R&B stars Pretty Ricky.