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December 28, 2002 - Ja Rule, Ashanti, Dru Hill, Sugar Ray, The Rolling Stones, Bon Jovi, Sheryl Crow and Dirty Vegas will perform at the Fox TV 'Canon Presents America's Party: Live From Las Vegas' New Year's Eve bash on the Las Vegas Strip on Tuesday night. "It is great national exposure, and it will really showcase Las Vegas and The Venetian," Kurt Ouchida tells the Las Vegas Sun. Read more.

December 14, 2002 - LovHer, Dru Hill, Christina Milian, Cam'ron, Rockwilder, Mariah Carey, Russell Simmons, Foxy Brown, and Capone attended the Capitale for the Island Def Jam Holiday Spectacular on Thursday (December 12) in New York. Check out photos from Big Pictures, Globe Photos, Getty Images, LFI, and WireImage.com.

November 28, 2002 - HitsDailyDouble.com reports Dru Hill’s 'Dru World Order' should come in at around 125k to 150k in first week album sales. Shania Twain and Tim McGraw will be battling for the top spot with both expecting around 500-600k. Read more.

November 27, 2002 - Launch.com spoke with Nokio from Dru Hill and asked the singer about why the group reconvened for 'Dru World Order', which dropped Tuesday. "We made our album because people asked us to make our album," Nokio said. "You know, we were supposed to release our album a couple of years ago, even though we were suppose to do it, it was kinda like the timing wasn't right--the sun, the moons, the stars weren't lined up. It just didn't feel like it was time." Read more.

November 26, 2002 - Dru Hill was on the Wendy Williams show on WBLS/New York earlier today and the DJ really was going after Sisqo wondering if he was gay. Sisqo, has once again, gone on record again as saying he's straight. It seems that he was skating around it a little: "What's a professional? See, I don't know what that is." The first answer he gave was, "I'm just sexual." But he says he was being facetious. And when they were about to leave, she said, "See, the sleeves over the hands is the gay look. But don't change, that's you."

November 25, 2002 - Star File has several photos of Dru Hill performing in Times Square on Wednesday (November 20). Check out the pictures here.

November 23, 2002 - The album release party for 'Red Star Sounds, Volume 2 - The B Sides' Heineken Initiative on Wednesday (November 20) at The World Club in New York saw Angie Martinez, Dru Hill, Egypt, Eve, Naughty By Nature, and The Sugar Hill Gang in attendance. Check out photos from Globe Photos and WireImage.com.

November 18, 2002 - Netscape Music has the Worldwide Exclusive Premiere of two new songs from Dru Hill: 'She Said' and 'I Love You'. Both songs are from the upcoming album 'Dru World Order' in stores at the end of November. Check out streams of both here.

November 2, 2002 - Sisqo, who released two albums as a solo artist, tells Katrillion.com the transition from solo artist back to group member with Dru Hill was smooth. "It wasn't hard at all," Sisqo insisted. "Coming back to the group wasn't really coming back because everybody was kind of involved with my solo projects and I was involved in everyone else's... we were fulfilling the plan." Dru Hill's latest album 'New World Order' drops November 26th. Read more.

October 29, 2002 - Dru Hill will be on BET's 106 and Park tonight.

October 26, 2002 - Launch.com has the new video from Dru Hill. Check out 'I Should Be', the first track off 'Dru World Order', due November 26th, here.

October 11, 2002 - BET announced the artists for the "Stevie Wonder Walk Of Fame" tribute on their website: It's hosted by Jamie Foxx and it says appearances by: Dru Hill, Gerald Levert, Eddie Levert, India.Arie, Ja Rule, Jill Scott, Mariah Carey, Elton John, Alicia Keys and more. It will be aired on October 29th, 2002 at 9:00PM EST.

September 4, 2002 - Anonymous writes "Dru Hill have reunited and also have a new member for their new album 'Dru World Order' due November 12th. The new single 'I Should Be...(Steps)' can be heard here."

August 16, 2002 - Launch.com reports Dru Hill is currently in a Los Angeles studio mastering their forthcoming album, 'Dru World Order', which will be released on November 12. This will be the first album for the group since their hiatus began five years ago when Sisqo persued a solo career. The group has added a new member for the reunion effort, Scola. who has been involved with the group and its members from the very beginning. Look for the first single to be out next month. Read more.

May 17, 2002 - FHM has listed their 100 Sexiest Music Videos of all time. Amongst those on the list are Aaliyah, Destiny's Child, Sisqo, Jamiroquai, and Toni Braxton. Check out and watch all of the videos here.

April 7, 2002 - The May issue of Vibe has a brief article on the Sisqo discovered girl group LovHer where the two shower praise for each other. Sisqo said of the lady foursome, "Their music is a breath of fresh air, because it's not superficial. It's about empowering oneself." Kienji fired back, "Sisqo's a perfectionist. But as we blossomed as artists, he let us do our thing on the album. But it's cool, 'cause he gets his piece of the back end!"

March 27, 2002 - Launch.com spoke with the girls from LovHer, Chinky, Buttah, Serenade, and Kenji, about how they met up with Sisqo to form the band. Chinky started the group and revealed, "Well, I actually know all of Dru Hill. We all pretty much caught the bus to school together. I went down to their jobs 'cause they worked at a store called the Fudgery. And they used to sing about fudge. And they put the group together and did demos, you know, and as soon as I know it, they're out. He was like, 'Yeah, we're going to put together this female group, you going to do it?' I was like, 'Yeah.' I was like, 'It depends on the girls." Read more.

February 12, 2002 - R. Kelly spoke with MuchMusic prior to his sex with a minor allegations about his beef with Sisqo that includes a slam on the 'Hold Up' track ('20's on the drop/Blue and yellow rocks/Keke yelling stop/Sisqo's album flopped'). R. Kelly explains, "It ain't really no beef. I just didn't appreciate how my man got on TV and said he was shutting it down when it came to R&B. I ain't gonna lie, it triggered me a little bit where I had to speak up on that."

January 25, 2002 - Bill Zwecker of the Chicago Sun Times reports Sisqo talked about the seeming disappointment of his second album that has only sold 2 million copies, one third of his debut's sales, saying, "There's a lot of pressure on artists to keep selling records. I'm not Will Smith. That's where I want to be one day. Will doesn't need to have music out there to get roles. I want that kind of power."

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