''Romeo Knight'' is the third and final album by American rap group

Boogie Boys The Boogie Boys were an United States, American hip hop group from Harlem, New York City. It was the first hip hop group that signed with Capitol Records, and it had a major hit in America in 1985 with the single "A Fly Girl" and two successful ...

, released in 1988 on

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. Following the departure of Rudy "Lil' Rahiem" Sheriff, the remaining Boogie Boys (William "Boogie Knight" Stroma and Joe "Romeo J.D." Malloy) headed into the studio to create ''Romeo Knight''.

Track listing

# This Is Us (4:26) # Kick It (4:18) # Pit Bull (3:27) # Body (3:24) # Peep It (3:25) # Romeo Knight (4:22) # I'm Comin' (3:38) # I'm a Lover (3:25) # Home Girl (3:36) # Pussi Cat (3:09) # Always on My Mind (5:21) # Rise Up (3:16)

Artwork

The cover was created by

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, a popular graffiti artist in New York. "Boogie Knight hooked that up," Malloy said in an interview, "as a matter of fact. That was crazy, we had a whole Egyptian thing going on with the pyramids and being born on January 13th, 1964 - Phase dug deep on that. Me and Boogie always talked about old R&B who had album covers we used to love, like

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. So yeah, that cover was crazy."

References

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