RJ’s Latest Arrival is an R&B, dance, and soul music band from Detroit, Michigan. Their biggest hit came with the 1984 single Shackles or “Shackles On My Feet” which was a fusion between rap from RJ, soulful singing from lead singer DeDe and synths from the groups, Craig Lane & Dean DiPierro on Keys, the band featured Paris Reese on Drums, and Paul Munroe on Guitar. Rudy Famous left the band during The Shackles Tour 1984 and was featured in the follow up video “Harmony”. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The group later became more based in traditional R&B and Soul music and in December of 1986 released the single featured here, “Hold On.” The song burned up the radio and quiet storm stations and ultimately reached #9 on Billboards R&B charts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The band broke up in the late 90s. The Group’s Bandleader and Founder, Ralph (R.J.) Rice went on to form Barak Records, A successful independent Hip-hop label Based in Detroit Michigan. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
The label most notably housed, the rap\/neo-soul collective, Slum Village among other artists.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
RJ’s Latest Arrival featured bandleader Ralph (RJ.) Rice, lead singer, DeDe, Craig Lane and Dean DiPierro on Keys\/Synths, Drummer Paris Reese Rudy Famous on Bass, and Paul Munroe on Guitar. “Hold On Rose to #9 on Billboards Hot R&B Chart.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":3585,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3584"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3587,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3584\/revisions\/3587"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3585"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rhythmnation.online\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}