Slip-N-Slide Records, home to chart-topping artists like Rick Ross and Plies, has active the R&B quartet Jagged Edge beginning off their abandonment from Def Jam Records. Now associates Brian Casey, Brandon Casey, Kyle Norman and Richard Wingo are in the flat alive on a fresh anthology advantaged "The Remedy,' slated for a 2010 release, and they achievement to tap on old and fresh labelmates, amid others, for bedfellow spots.

"What we appetite to do with this anthology is still be on that R&B tip, but with the advice of a few best features," Norman tells Billboard.com. "So far we're in talks with Rick Ross and Plies. We talked to Jay-Z about accomplishing a song on the aftermost album, so we're activity to try to accompany that again, and we've additionally been chatting with Snoop [Dogg]."

In addition, J.E. plan on accepting bedfellow appearances from newcomers Jarvis and Chelsea, who are active to the group's Bristles 81 Records. "Jagged Edge

wants a fresh creation, a fresh birth. We appetite to accompany a little ablaze to what we've been accomplishing for the accomplished 11-12 years," he says.

As per the complete of the album, Norman says they won't devious too far from their acceptable bedchamber music. "I anticipate no amount what we do, our ambition is consistently to sing the hell out of a song. Back that is the goal, that will advance to the bedchamber anyway," he says. "Topic astute we are all over on this one - some complete added youthful, some added evocative and some complete absolute classic, like the big ballads. If you attending in the past, the arrangement of ability ballads was grossly outnumbered, but this anthology will be added balanced."

Initially active to Columbia through longtime assistant and ambassador Jermaine Dupri's So So Def imprint, the accumulation recorded bristles albums there afore affective to Island Def Jam in 2007 back Dupri fabricated a move as the admiral of Island Records. They appear 2007's "Baby Makin' Project,"

which awash 246,000 copies in the United States, according to Nielsen SoundScan.

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Still, their abbreviate assignment at Def Jam wasn't a affable one. "The Def Jam bearings wasn't best-suited for us," he says. "When we went to Def Jam there were already issues amid L.A. Reid and Jermaine Dupri, which we didn't apperceive about. For Jermaine to booty us from Columbia to a bearings area we had to action everyday, it didn't accomplish any sense.

"We had our own issues with Columbia, but at the aforementioned time it was home for 10 or 11 years," he continues. "If you booty us from that you accept to adapt to action for us."

That's back Slip-N-Slide CEO Ted Lucas came to the aggregation with a accord they couldn't refuse. "We capital to do alone projects, but Ted contacted us about a accumulation project," says Norman. "He promised he would advice us do our alone things afterwards. Also, this is a collective venture. Jagged Ede is active to Bristles 81 Records, so we accept added control."

Still, while Dupri won't accept a duke in "The Remedy," Norman says their accord is amicable. "We do feel the bearings could've been handled better, but, there is no adulation absent for Jermaine. We capital to get appear from Def Jam and J.D. thankfully fabricated that appear quickly," he says. Dupri was amenable for the group's No. 1 hits "Let's Get Married," "Promise" and "Where The Party At," featuring Nelly.

Additionally, Jagged Edge is in the basic stages of a absoluteness appearance as able-bodied as a accouterment band they achievement to barrage with their fresh characterization head, Lucas. Recently, they did an 11-city European bout and are planning to go on a bifold bout this year with Rick Ross, Plies, T-Pain and others, as able-bodied as a "Battle Of The Bands" expedition with Dru Hill, 112 and addition as-yet-unannounced group.