B-Rock & The Bizz was a hip-hop

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group consisting of producer and rapper/ singer, Baron "B-Rock" Agee, his brother Leevirt Agee from

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, Paul Costict, and Thaddeus "T-Bird" Maye from

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. Together, Leevirt Agee and T-Bird Maye were known as The Bizz. The group is best known for their novelty hip hop and rap hit single, " My Baby Daddy", which peaked at #10 on the ''Billboard'' Hot 100 in April 1997. The song was the group's only hit making them a

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. In 1999, Terius "The Dream" Nash replaced T-Bird Maye on the group's second album entitled ''Porkin' Beans & Wienes''. In 1997, the female

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hip-hop group, Anquette, released an

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to "My Baby Daddy" entitled "My Baby Mama". In 2008, Costict was on an episode of

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, seeking the return of his gold album.

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, ''The Billboard Book of Top 40 Hits''. American hip hop musicians Musicians from Alabama {{US-hiphop-band-stub