What happened to the r& b group Hi-Five?

When Hi-Five was formed, Tony Thompson, Roderick “Pooh” Clark, Marcus Sanders, Russell Neal, and Toriano Easley were just a gang of Waco, Texas boys. They released their debut single “I Just Can’t Handle It” in 1990, and it wasn’t long before their self-titled album produced by Teddy Riley–went platinum, catapulting them to “new jack swing” fame.

Over the next three years, the guys would record two additional albums, both of which were only moderately successful. They split up in 1994 and reformed in 2006.

The surviving members of Hi-Five disbanded in 1994. Thompson attempted a comeback with a new Hi-Five in 2005, but three original members sued him for using the Hi-Five name.

Two years later, Irby and Sanders were trying to assemble Hi-Five when Thompson died in Waco from freon inhalation from an air conditioning machine. Russell Neal, a member, was accused of murder in the stabbing death of his wife in Houston in the 2007 year.

They announced in 2012 that they were in the studio working on their fourth studio album, which was titled The Evolution: Journey

One of the members Roderick Clark recently passed away in April 2022. Only two out of 5 members remain.