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It\u2019s a concept almost as old as pop music itself: get a group of young male heartthrobs together who can sing, dance and appeal primarily to the ladies, then put a mic in front of them to see the musical magic they make.<\/p>\n
The success rate for boy bands has been replicated ten times over for decades, including The Jackson 5<\/a> from the \u201960s into the \u201970s, New Edition in the \u201980s, Boyz II Men in the \u201990s, B2K in the 2000s, Mindless Behavior in the 2010s and K-pop acts like BTS taking over the trend in recent times. However, burgeoning out of Texas is a new R&B quartet with hopes of bringing that unified magic back to Black music. <\/p>\n This week for \u201cNew Music Mondays,\u201d we\u2019re getting into 2BYG<\/strong>.<\/p>\n RELATED:<\/strong> New Music Mondays<\/em> \u2013 Uncle Waffles Spins Her Swazi Sound On New EP<\/a><\/p>\n The fellas of 2BYG, comprised of Tour\u00e8, NIXX, KD and Matt Brown, are each aiming to prove the acronym stands true in their efforts \u201cto be young and gifted.\u201d From song to song, they manage to channel the sound of various genre predecessors on their 2025 breakout mixtape, The Yearbook<\/em>. Be it the \u201cMotownphilly\u201d<\/a> vibes in standout single \u201cKarma,\u201d the \u201cUh Huh\u201d<\/a> sample heard throughout \u201cWassup\u201d or the Bobby Caldwell flip on \u201cDo 4 Luv,\u201d it\u2019s clear these guys have done their research with respect to the greats. <\/p>\n It\u2019s no surprise they did such a bang up job earlier this year while covering a classic *NSYNC song for the premiere episode of Netflix\u2019s Star Search<\/em> reboot.<\/p>\n With their new single, \u201cI Want You,\u201d the groovy throwback sample this time around is owed to the late Biz Markie\u2019s pioneering 1986 single, \u201cMake The Music With Your Mouth Biz.\u201d The track gets substantially slowed down to match the group\u2019s niche for rhythm and blues, making for a smooth serenading banger that might just put them at the forefront of ushering in the Black boy band wave for a new generation.<\/p>\n As they prepare for The Yearbook: Extended Version,<\/em> a deluxe re-issue of their debut arriving next week (June 12), let\u2019s just say we\u2019re here for it all!<\/p>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source blackamericaweb.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Def Jam Recordings It\u2019s a concept almost as old as pop music itself: get a group of young male heartthrobs together who can sing, dance and appeal primarily to the ladies, then put a mic in front of them to see the musical magic they make. The success rate for boy bands has been replicated […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2441137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25179],"tags":[479198,26626,21947,479199,22428],"class_list":["post-2441136","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-music","tag-black-male-rb-groups","tag-new-music","tag-rb","tag-rb-groups","tag-texas"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/New-Music-Mondays-2BYG-Might-Just-Back-The-Boy-Band.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441136","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2441136"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441136\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441138,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2441136\/revisions\/2441138"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2441137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2441136"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2441136"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2441136"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Keep scrolling for a selection of other 2BYG songs you should have on your playlist:<\/h3>\n