Guy III

Guy III is R&B group Guy’s third studio album arriving a decade after their last offering, November 1990’s The Future. The album reimagines the group’s previous New Jack Swing sound to revolutionize the sound of R&B yet again.

Guy parted ways after The Future to pursue solo careers, with Teddy Riley’s Blackstreet group achieving mainstream success with September 1996’s “No Diggity”—a song that Aaron Hall refused to record. The group split again after the release of Guy III following Teddy Riley’s departure, leaving the Hall brothers to shoot the music video for their final single, March 2000’s “Why You Wanna Keep Me From My Baby.”

In a February 2000 interview for Vibe Magazine, Teddy Riley revealed that their label, MCA Records did not promote the album correctly, leading to its failure, saying:

We tried to do a Guy reunion album. But I don’t think the record company did the third album any justice. MCA didn’t really get us at that point. And they were promoting us like we were jazz artists. They took us everywhere else, but to our audience. You have to know your demographics for that group. They didn’t get us on BET like they were supposed to. They were trying to get us on VH-1, but they weren’t checking for us. We had our radio record, ‘Dancin’’, that couldn’t get on BET. It was just a failure

Guy III peaked at #13 on the Billboard 200 chart and also peaked at #5 on the Top R&B/Hip-Hop Albums chart. It also placed #86 on Billboard’s Year-End chart for 2000. The album did not receive any certifications.

Only 2 singles were released from Guy III: “Dancin'” which peaked at #19 on the Hot 100 chart, and “Why You Wanna Keep Me From My Baby” which peaked at #50 on the Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles chart.