When was kriss kross

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Although Dupri was still a teenager himself, he saw something in the young duo and wanted to work with them. Kelly and Smith became the rap duo Kris Kross, soon releasing the song "Jump," which was an enormous hit. Written and produced by Jermaine Dupri, "Jump" stayed at No. The album the song was on, Totally Krossed Out , went multiplatinum, and its success led to Kris Kross performing with artists like Michael Jackson.

Kris Kross fans also began to duplicate the duo's style of wearing their clothes backward. But as Kelly and Smith got older, they tried to toughen their image on subsequent albums. Though they released two moderately successful albums, the duo would never again release a song as popular as "Jump.

But though they had some success with hits such as Warm It Up and Tonite's tha Night, they were never able to match the huge success of their first song. Kris Kross released two more albums in the s before Kelly and Smith went their separate ways. In reports surfaced that Kelly had cancer. But the singer denied he was ill, claiming he had suffered hair loss because of alopecia.

This video can not be played To play this video you need to enable JavaScript in your browser. It was released on the Sega CD system, and consisted of the player editing together the groups music videos to a few of their hit songs using portions of the original music videos, stock footage, and general video animation effects. Players were prompted before each edit session to make sure to have certain footage compiled into the video. The game was released in the US only to very lackluster sales figures.

In , Kris Kross released their second album entitled Da Bomb, which went platinum. By then, they'd stopped wearing their clothes backwards. MTV Raps fame.