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"Liar" - Profyle

from the album Nothin' But Drama (2000)

Billboard Hot 100 peak: #14 (one week)

Weeks in the Top-40: 10

 

Today's song comes from the R&B vocal group Profyle, which was made up from brothers Marcus and Detrick Phelps along with cousins John Robinson and Donnie Wilson, all from Shreveport, Louisiana. Signed to Motown Records, Profyle released their debut album Whispers In The Dark in 1999. The first single from the record, "I Ain't The One", which sported a Timbaland-adjacent groove, placed at #65 on Billboard magazine's R&B Singles chart. The second, the smooth booty-call title track "Whispers In The Dark", did a little better, climbing to #57 on the R&B list, while going to #23 on the older-skewing Adult R&B format. The album spent four weeks on the R&B Albums chart, with a high at #67.

With a commitment for a second album, Profyle released Nothin' But Drama in 2000. The lead single, "Liar", written by Tyrell Bing, Ernest Dixon, and Roy Hamilton, and produced by new jack swing king Teddy Riley of Guy and Blackstreet fame. That name recognition behind the wheel helped the promotion of the song to radio. Which helped, since the song is a run-of-the-mill catching a cheater out song with a lazy melody they try their best to harmonize on. Turning tables on the rash of gold-diggers did the trick, though, and they found themselves with not only a huge urban radio hit, but their biggest crossover success...

"Liar" became Profyle's first and only hit on Billboard's pop Hot 100 chart, climbing to the top 20 in October of 2000. The song spent a week at #1 on the R&B Singles chart, while making it to #26 on the Adult R&B radio list. The Nothin' But Drama album, released in October as the song was peaking, got to #50 on the Billboard 200 sales tally, and #13 on the R&B Albums list.

A second single from the record, "Damn", was also written by the same trio as "Liar", and produced by Riley as well, but it only managed to spend a couple of weeks on the R&B Singles chart at #80. They were dropped by the label before another album. A self-titled independent release came in 2004 with little notice, but the group still carries on.

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Up tomorrow: Jersey heroes are independent.