Mark Morrison - Moan & Groan

What this video is

Released in 1997 as one of the final singles from Morrison's debut album 'Return of the Mack' (WEA/Atlantic, 1996), 'Moan & Groan' arrived during a turbulent period in his public life that included a 1997 firearms conviction. Despite this, the track reached the UK Top 10, completing Morrison's historic run as the first artist in British pop history to achieve five Top-10 singles from a debut album. In the US, it…

Why it matters

A key document of mid-90s British R&B's commercial apex, 'Moan & Groan' bridges New Jack Swing's US heritage with a distinctly UK urban sensibility. Its explicit adult-R&B lyrical content and Mtume sample situate it within a lineage of sophisticated soul-influenced pop that would later influence…