What Happened to Nicole Wray? Her relationship with Missy Elliot | Album delays etc.

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Even though her father might not have heard her voice, someone else did; Missy Elliot. Nicole's brother went to an audition Missy was holding and told her of his sister's talent.
Missy came knocking on the doors of Nicole's house in Portland and conducted an audition for the 17-year-old on the spot. Though unprepared, Nicole's voice wowed the music industry trendsetter and she was so completely blown away by her musical prowess that she signed Nicole that same night. Nicole Wray became the first talent of the Goldmind imprint and began her walk to fame in the late '90s.
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@lucyk6396 3 года назад

I still play “make it hot” on my tv. Loved her growing up this is my era of R&B

@YAH-1 3 года назад

Same here 👍🏾 getting my exercise in with her song

@561REALTLK 3 года назад

Same. Used to wake up early during the summer to catch the first video show on BET. Cause remember videos didn't start until 9AM. These kids don't know about that. They used to play Make It Hot right at the beginning of the show.

@qu33niemonroe64 3 года назад

Same

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Missy discovered her.

@PharaohLawLess1 3 года назад

Nicole Wray is so underrated and under appreciated it's a damn shame!!!!

@karma92sims14 3 года назад

She's just drop dead gorgeous

@weirdLEXbutok Год назад

yes !!! looks , voice , all that ! the shiny darker tones of lipstick she was wearing back in the day was 100% fire on her ! so underrated !

@sinsearjones6081 3 года назад

I use to love Nicole I'll never forget her comeback with roc-a-fella "If I was your girlfriend" was my shit I'm so mad she didn't blow she was chocolate in a light skin world and still prevailed 😍😍

@mswhite1004 3 года назад

Love that song

@TOMMY-xc6ou 3 года назад

Very true. Well said.

@agthaog1986 3 года назад

yea and beautiful and incredible vocalist it kinda just seemed like her boat was sailing at the wrong times in a sense. like kinda when the label situations were about to change or when the competition is high. in the end u gotta still respect missy and dame for recognizing a true talent

@sexxygeno 3 года назад

That's still my shit

@sexxygeno 3 года назад

I love that beat

@CandieP 3 года назад

Omg I met Nicole Wray in Brooklyn a decade ago and we took a flick together and everyone thought we were related. Lol. She was cool as shit. My fellow Virginia Sister.

@razemuzic7488 3 года назад

You beautiful

@CandieP 3 года назад

Thank you 🥰

@SylentONE 3 года назад

@@CandieP Let me put a ring on it

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Oooooooh .

@NeishaNineStarz 3 года назад

Nicole should’ve been a much bigger artist. She puts music out under the name Lady Wray and her recent project under this name is very good.

@kelvin19888 3 года назад

What happened to Gina Thompson, Allure, Archie Eversole

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

That's whole group

@Magnus1718 3 года назад

And Tweet

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Nothing.

@spicyhot2552 3 года назад

@@taureanmay7480 Exactly ...Nothing .

@belllismatt2005 3 года назад

Im giving Missy the side eye after this.. How many girls did she have singing runs and choruses on her songs and then toss they ass to the wind lol

@princetriton1308 3 года назад

Remember what she said at the end of Ladies Night to Kim 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣, the Irony, Missy aint shit but I love her

@belllismatt2005 3 года назад

@@princetriton1308 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😭😭 exactly, bogus as hell

@princetriton1308 3 года назад

@@belllismatt2005 🤣

@tastefullynasty 3 года назад

Smh. Having features and having an artist of your own are not the same thing...

@JLPerryTV 3 года назад

I noticed that as well. She used a lot of female singers and cast them aside. It was also a conflict of interest for her to sign with Missy being that Missy was her producer, manager, and head of Goldmind.

@RatchetRalph 3 года назад

One of the most underrated albums of all time. There were some bangers on this album and Nicole is a gem.

@BAYOUBOOM 3 года назад

This dude said she grew up with black parents like that was something weird to him.🤦‍♂️🤣

@notfriendly9551 3 года назад

exactly son on sum other shit saying that shit 😂

@MedyLema 3 года назад

‘If I Was Your Girlfriend’ had amazing potential... this is why you should trust yourself before everyone else

@RodRod82 3 года назад

She got much further than Missy's other artists Torrey Carter he didn't blow it all.

@dramahawkpromotions9621 3 года назад

True and also I always wondered what happen to Torrey Carter his single was on the radio Heavy in NY

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Joyful.

@AggravatedMan365 3 года назад

@@dramahawkpromotions9621 One hit wonder

@CdotC 3 года назад

Make it hot is a classic album. Still play it every now and again now!

@marih_2017 3 года назад

She is Gorgeous

@SweetLove86761 3 года назад

You need to do a "where are they now?" On Torrey Carter he was also on Missy label and disappeared after a minor hit😒

@Gouzinstrumentals 3 года назад

i wish electric blue album was released officially. it was leaked online in part and the joint is 🔥🔥🔥.

@6foot8aquarius 3 года назад

Aaliyah being in the mix hindered Nicole’s growth as well. Then after her passing Tweet came in. Nicole didn’t have a chance.

@erichicks8698 3 года назад

@HipHopForever Thank you SOOO much for doing this on Nicole Wray. She is one of my favorite UNDERRATED artists. Make It Hot album was and is still a vibe. Queen Alone was a breath of fresh air.

@AshleyHTheBachelor 3 года назад

No one ever mentions her title track on the movie "Love Don't Cost A Thing" w/ Nick Cannon & Christina Milian 😅 It was good tho & she's always been dope but too bad for her she didn't first come out during today's time indie-internet-streaming world then she coulda controlled her career and not wait on missy or nobody. Shes inspiring tho👑

@JLPerryTV 3 года назад

She didn’t do the “title track”. Her song was called “I Wanna Kiss You”

@AshleyHTheBachelor 3 года назад

Yayyy!! 🤟🏾

@TrvisXXIII 3 года назад

Nicole made dipset family ties a classic, her hook made that song incredible, still play that song today

@Theonlyrealdanne 3 года назад

What Happened to Shareefa from DTP?

@561REALTLK 3 года назад

Man what happened to the whole DTP. Lil Fate, I-20, Playaz Circle, shawnna, field mob. All of them.

@Theonlyrealdanne 3 года назад

@@561REALTLK Hopefully Hip Hop Forever can explain all of that into some sort of 2Hr special 🤨

@kevinumba6281 3 года назад

Luda also had a whole rock band on DTP. They're on the second DTP compilation album

@semajjphilly88 3 года назад

Man I LOVE Nicole! That first album “Boy You Shouldn’t Listen” song will FOREVER BE MY FAVORITE! Even her singles after that were really good. Nicole is everything & that’s on Mary.

@weirdLEXbutok Год назад

💯

@UnreleasedUnderratedRnBgrooves 3 года назад

#FunFact Nicole had plans to name the unreleased Roc-a-Fella project as "Fantasia LoveChild", but it ended up getting revised to a different name to avoid confusion with American Idol alumni Fantasia. I do remember back in 2013 Nicole still had ill feelings towards Fantasia over that issue, she kinda alluded that with the album's name being changed at the time it served as a surprise key moment that led up to the LP's eventual shelving.

@SylentONE 3 года назад

Damn. That's messed up

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Shocker.

@JaeLshae30 3 года назад

Why would she be mad though lol is that not Fantasia real name

@UnreleasedUnderratedRnBgrooves 3 года назад

@@JaeLshae30 I think Nicole was also feeling some type of way one year later (2006) after being shelved because she also believed that Fantasia was copycatting her when they both happened to be working with the same producer Rich Harrison on similar song theme material.

@icemanx8876 3 года назад

What happened to A+ had a hit called enjoy yourself with a Beethoven sample

@agthaog1986 3 года назад

yeeaaahh she was going up against some heavy competition at the time..alot fo which they were all kinda established already. With her being relatively new and not having another single it just wasnt gonna happen. Tim had alot of other work with bigger names too so i can see why he aint do more production for her but maaannn did he give her a hot one....make it hot is still a perfect Calab. that shows off her vocals and flow

@johnnysilvercloud4470 3 года назад

Wow, I didn’t know she changed her name! Searching now

@yblimited 3 года назад

Her Lady Wray music is really good

@kch8437 3 года назад

what happened to Lea Quezada from lil flip sunshine video

@Ianisatool 3 года назад

I agree. I love that song.

@atlnikka 3 года назад

Man I love Nicole Wray I have all of her unreleased tracks on my iPad missy really need to release elektric blue album tho it’s fire 🔥

@erichicks8698 3 года назад

2 things. I hope Nicole's Elekric Blue Album does get to be released (SOON) and I hope Missy can one day (SOON) pick up where she left off and make Nicole the MAINSTREAM STAR we all KNOW she is!

@swagoneto7922 3 года назад

I would love to hear about Missy's other "unknown" artist. Torrey Carter would be a cool start

@kevinumba6281 3 года назад

What happened to Ms.Jade? Tim's artist

@smblew01 3 года назад

I loved Nicole too. I bought her first album. "Make it Hot" and "Eyes Better Not Wander" are my favorites. I liked the Lady duo she was in and the song "Do It Again"

@SoSo-uh6tu 3 года назад

THANK YOOOOU, ALI!

@gregwhite7852 3 года назад

Still waiting on the Shade Sheist or Slimm Calhoun, Knoc turnal, Ray Cash!!!!!

@goat5018 3 года назад

she’s still active on Instagram 👌🏽

@LyingGossip 3 года назад

Can you make a video on the rapper Mocha that’s featured on Make It Hot ?!? I’ve always wondered what happened to her

@JLPerryTV 3 года назад

Missy abandoned her. Mocha was supposed to release her album “Bella Mafia” on Goldmind but it was never released. She released two books: “Cash Money” and “Concrete Jungle” under her real name Aleesha Rivers. She released a limited edition album “One Day at a Time” in 2007. She has since married and goes by Aleesha Robinson and has bakery in Portsmouth, Virginia.

@claytonallen5428 3 года назад

Oh how I miss and love the 90s!!!

@natisharoberts6505 9 месяцев назад

Borrowed time was my song!! I loved Nicole Wray ❤❤❤

@camronshean1758 3 года назад

Thought you would've mentioned that Nicole Wray featured on Missy Misdemeanor Elliott's song Gettaway from her first album Supa Dupa Fly

@ilonaallison7305 3 года назад

What Happened to Fundisha From so so def

@mr.checkyourself4672 3 года назад

Can you do Tweet next

@KingAlone516 3 года назад

Tweet still around tho, she dropped a album a few years ago that did decent, and shes about to drop another one.

@asantejsaymyname3537 3 года назад

Her pastor was right

@SylentONE 3 года назад

Boy bye

@asantejsaymyname3537 3 года назад

@@SylentONE don't be naive. Look into what Hollywood is all about.

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

Thank u 4 this i ask for this. I loved make it hot my song.

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to floetry

@scrubz.n.squatz2495 3 года назад

I remember her growing up

@charlita25 3 года назад

I love$ “why you all in my grill “ 🎶🎵🎵

@KingTone510 3 года назад

I still bump "I Can't See"on the regular

@amycrush05 3 года назад

I love Nicole Wray! Eyes better not wonder is one of my favorite songs! Can you do a video on the group Allure?

@goldbrooks 3 года назад

Please do a vid on jean grae, Tarall Hicks, or lady of Rage

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to a another bad creation

@SSGKoop 3 года назад

Didnt she have her own version of "Still Tippin" I think it was on the hustle & flow soundtrack, that's the last thing I remember her doing

@lamontallen7470 3 года назад

I SWEAR TO GOD I WANT TO REMAKE I CAN'T C MISSY ELLIOT I WANT TO HOLLA AT YA IF I CAN

@egyptcree7298 3 года назад

Do one on Jaguar Right!!

@dramahawkpromotions9621 3 года назад

Love her Vocals on Black Keys album

@MsOctober30 3 года назад

What about Nicole Renee?

@navynick7307 3 года назад

I am sorry, I still bump MAKE IT HOT; EVERY SONG IS HOTT‼️‼️💛💛 I loved her in the group LADY also... good album.

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to Mario and jessie Powell n Carl Thomas. Oh yeah Glen Lewis

@so.many.obstacles 3 года назад

I love Jesse Powell!

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to Murphey lee

@topbillin5051 3 года назад

It's Portsmouth(Portsmith) Virginia!

@BenJaminn90 3 года назад

She still talented

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to June dairy

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Where is Nicole Wray now.

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

No Idea.

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to Memphis bleek

@charlita25 3 года назад

Whatever happened to Gina Thompson and Mona Lisa?

@sheismazing2__622 3 года назад

Make it Hot is still a banger

@lovebrendadenise 3 года назад

🙏🏾

@80ty6ixx 3 года назад

Portsmouth, Virginia...not Portland 😂

@freezhollywood 3 года назад

thought make it hot was a missy song wtf

@MsDisneylandlover 3 года назад

What happened to bone thugs

@scrubz.n.squatz2495 3 года назад

Make a video on Rich Homie Quan.... i still listen to him but he fell off cause he isn’t main stream like that anymore

@yani-6022 3 года назад

I love Nicole Wray.

@jasongodfrey823 3 года назад

Didnt Missy Elliot turn Nicole Wray out just sayin😏

@gregwhite7852 3 года назад

Or Czar Nok whatever happened to those guys?!!

@JaeLshae30 3 года назад

Make it hot is my song 😭

@izzyoda7867 3 года назад

sorry but make it hot came out in 97

@barrettlovett2238 3 года назад

Birds the word

@notfriendly9551 3 года назад

She grew up with black parents??????🥴

@SuperNatblessed 2 года назад

💜🤎🔥🥰😇.. VA all day!! Love my state!! I found it @ALI!! hehe

@SoSo-uh6tu 3 года назад

I loooooved her debut album. ‘Eyes Better Not Wonder’ was my favorite!

@gbafongbafon 3 года назад

Female opinions dont count sis

@MissTip 3 года назад

Yess

@jblackinc 3 года назад

A tru bop . Thank you for acknowledging such an amazing song from a talented artist .

@GoddessPower777 3 года назад

@@gbafongbafon stfu

@feliciabest7501 Год назад

I still play it every day

@FrozenRemix1 3 года назад

Missy Elliott has a habit of taking singers and rappers under her wing (Nicole Wray, Lil’ Mo, Mocha, Ms. Jade, Tweet, Jessica Betts, Sharaya J, etc...), does a couple of projects with them (maybe even produce a full length album), and then leaves them high and dry. I never understood that.

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Wow.

@jackierobinson-hicks3879 3 года назад

She has a good voice

@YAH-1 3 года назад

Nicole Wray was/is the ish with all that beautiful melanin 💯

@Lynn_Shae0915 3 года назад

All in my grill is still my shit!!!!!

@AliTalksMusic 3 года назад

Agreed. That song is timeless.

@MsOctober30 3 года назад

🤗🤗🤗

@adamweatherly7751 3 года назад

One of the most underrated songs ever!

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

I agree.

@jacklo1480 3 года назад

She's still putting music out she goes under the name Lady Wray..

@shayg9126 3 года назад

"Piece of me" is my jam

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

New identity.

@Oluffemi 2 года назад

Her music is really good. Im happy she found her niche in motown soul

@Msbellared 5 месяцев назад

And finally using her real vocals and not Kelli Nicole price and Gina Thompson.. she doesn't sound at the same as she did back then.. especially when she got with dipset

@PharaohLawLess1 3 года назад

Timbaland, R Kelly an d BabyFace were charging $75,000 to $100,000 per track in 1998.....TRUST ME! Our budget was $360,000 dollars and we only spent $60,000 of that budget from Warner Bros. Producers in that time started really separating themselves in terms of pay from artists and we're not even talking back end royalty payouts. We spent our little money on equipment, clothes and a little car to get around to gigs

@marih_2017 3 года назад

damn them songs didnt really even use live instruments in them songs mostly programmed beats and sounds and mixers and faders oscillators etc Producers and Engineers too effin greedy i can see it if it were live bands or orchestral saxophone etc but those bandits was on some real type scam to make sure they leave the Artists with nothing like some slaves

@PharaohLawLess1 3 года назад

@@marih_2017 In Timberland’s and the Neptunes case they use a lot of keyboards sounds but in RKelly and BabyFace’s case they did use a lot of live instruments. That’s why it’s better for artist to crate and compose and produce and write your own songs. That’s how people like TLC and Toni Braxton got messed up. They went beyond their budgets

@millymilly8264 2 года назад

$75,000 for a track hell nah 🤔

@PharaohLawLess1 2 года назад

@@millymilly8264 And that’s for just 1 track

@relldafox 3 года назад

Missy n Timbaland some what do Artist development

@DeeDerry 3 года назад

I still listen to her 1st album to this day 💯💯

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

Yes.

@TTSantiago821 3 года назад

That is why its difficult for an artist to sign other artist when they are on the come up. Missy already was successful but hadn't even hit her peak yet, that was in the years to come, Missy was still climbing even higher which she eventually reached her peak in the early 2000s. No way she could have put time into all those other artist, she had a gem in Nicole. Her voice is so unique and she could really sing. Bad decision on Missy's part. I met Nicole in the 2005s right after she signed with Dame Dash, she was very humble and sweet.

@kevinumba6281 3 года назад

She could've waited up until the Misdeameanor Era to form a label.

@TTSantiago821 3 года назад

@@kevinumba6281 basically. One of the errors of her career. I don't hear her mention any of those artist she "signed" back then either. And I'm a bit surprised she did it that way seeing has how she went thru what she did being under Devante, he kept that entire crew in a studio apartment in Buffalo NY for a couple years before they left and had to do their own thing. Playa, Ginuwine, Miss and Timbaland all were signed with Devante and he did nothing with them.

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

I do.

@stephwes7851 3 года назад

what happened to Tracie Spencer “tender kisses”?

@autobotdiva9268 3 года назад

she rich off books and an advocate

@taureanmay7480 3 года назад

I love that song.

@amyfleming6099 3 года назад

Nicole Wray is Veteran 🔥...Salute 🙏🏾

@dramahawkpromotions9621 3 года назад

My Joint by Nicole is Im Lookin! 🙏🏿🙏🏿🙏🏿💪🏿🔥🔥

@erichicks8698 3 года назад

Now we need a What Happened To MOCHA!!!

@JLPerryTV 3 года назад

She married and is now Aleesha Richards. She owns a bakery in Portsmouth

@homegyrl 3 года назад

@@JLPerryTV word?! Imma check it out

@FrozenRemix1 3 года назад

Last I heard, she became and author and owned a bakery in Virginia 🤔🤔🤔

@Blackoleander623 3 года назад

I will always love her voice! I hope she knows that she still has fans 💕

@kaitlynmorgan9813 3 года назад

Do Nivea next😭😭

@561REALTLK 3 года назад

Drugs got her

@kevinumba6281 3 года назад

Laundromat should've been huge

@londonk09 3 года назад

@@561REALTLK it was actually her getting pregnant. After her label dropped her she turned to drugs.

@SylentONE 3 года назад

@@londonk09 She got fat

@londonk09 3 года назад

@@SylentONE yeah but she lost weight I follow her on insta! She's tryin to live a healthy lifestyle!

@hardee34 3 года назад

Make it hot album was 🔥 bro

@chynahdolltaylormadedreams8275 3 года назад

Love her! Love her unique voice too 😍

@iamnolafromcali1346 3 года назад

I still listen to her music especially her song “Borrowed Time” I wish Nicole albums were available on Apple Music.

@iamnolafromcali1346 3 года назад

@Lynn Legend I double checked “Make it hot” album is not on there

@JLPerryTV 3 года назад

She has a bunch of unreleased albums and unreleased music. Her albums “Elektric Blue” (2001), “Lovechild” (2005), “Changes” (2008), “Independance Day Vol. 2”. She was also on a bunch of different labels: Goldmind/Elektra, Roc-a-fella, Def Jam, Dame Dash Music Group, Dream Factory, Family Over Everything, A.Fam Entertainment, Sta Bizzi Entertainment, Danizha Inc, Truth and Soul, and Big Crown