Terri & Monica was a R&B duo from the early 1990s which featured Terri Robinson and Monica Payne, who were members of the short-lived late 80s New Jack Swing R&B group The Gyrlz. They released a pair of full-length recordings, 1993's Systa and 1996's Suga, both released via Epic Records

Epic Records

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. The latter spawned a Billboard Magazine hit single, "Sexuality (If You Take Your Love)."

Contributions, compilations, and collaborations

• "I'm still waiting" a track from their 1993 debut was featured on the soundtrack to Poetic Justice, a motion picture starring Janet Jackson
  Janet Jackson
  Janet Damita Jo Jackson is an American recording artist and actress. Known for a series of sonically innovative, socially conscious and sexually provocative records, as well as elaborate stage shows, television and film roles, she has been a prominent figure in popular culture for over 25 years...
  
   and Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Shakur
  Tupac Amaru Shakur , known by his stage names 2Pac and Makaveli, was an American rapper and actor. Shakur has sold over 75 million albums worldwide as of 2007, making him one of the best-selling music artists in the world...
  
  . Another hit single, "Uh-huh", was featured on Hey Mr. DJ: The 4th Compilation as a remix from Mood II Swing.
• The performed alongside Shabba Ranks
  Shabba Ranks
  Shabba Ranks is a Jamaican dancehall musician.He was one of the most popular dancehall artists of his generation. He was also one of the first Jamaican deejays to gain worldwide acceptance, and recognition for his 'slack' lyrical expressions and content, when "ridin' di riddim"...
  
   and Patra
  Patra (singer)
  Patra is a reggae singer. In her beginnings as a Female Dancehall deejay in the late 1980s, she used the stage name, Lady Patra...
  
   on "Family Affair". The song, a revision of the 1971 hit single from Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly & the Family Stone
  Sly and the Family Stone were an American rock, funk, and soul band from San Francisco, California. Active from 1966 to 1983, the band was pivotal in the development of soul, funk, and psychedelic music...
  
  , was featured on the Addams Family Values
  Addams Family Values
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  motion picture soundtrack.
• In 1995, the duo performed with LL Cool J
  LL Cool J
  James Todd Smith , better known as LL Cool J , is an American rapper, entrepreneur, and actor...
  
   on "Loungin"', a track from 1995's Mr. Smith
  Mr. Smith (album)
  -Track Notes:* No Airplay - edited on both the Edited and Explicit Versions of the Album, However the Explicit only backmasks on the song, the Edited version even edits the intro....
  
  . They also made a contribution to the Money Train
  Money Train (soundtrack)
  Money Train is the soundtrack to the 1995 motion picture Money Train. Although the reception of the album was lukewarm, it managed to spawn a hit single, "Top of the Stairs", which was performed by Skee-Lo....
  
  motion picture soundtrack.

Trivia

• The group emerged following the dissolution of The Gyrlz — an opening act for Al B. Sure, Bobby Brown
  Bobby Brown
  Robert Barisford "Bobby" Brown is an American R&B singer-songwriter, occasional rapper, and dancer. After success in pop group New Edition, Brown began his solo career in 1987 and had a string of Top 10 Billboard hits, culminating in a Grammy Award. He was a pioneer of New Jack Swing music, a...
  
   and New Edition
  New Edition
  New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
  
   during the late 1980s.
• Monica Payne is the cousin of New Edition
  New Edition
  New Edition is an R&B group formed in Boston in 1978. The group reached its height of popularity during the 1980s. They were the progenitors of the boy band movement of the 1980s and 1990s and led the way for groups like New Kids on the Block, Boyz II Men, Backstreet Boys and 'N Sync...
  
   member Ronnie DeVoe
  Ronnie DeVoe
  Ronnie DeVoe, aka R.D., is one of the members of the R&B sextet New Edition....
  
  .

External links

• Terri & Monica: earthy girl group - rap group April 1994 Essence
  Essence (magazine)
  Essence is a monthly magazine for African-American women between the ages of 18 and 49. The magazine covers fashion, lifestyle and beauty with an intimate girlfriend-to-girlfriend tone.-History:...
  
   article
• Terri & Monica artist information at Discogs
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