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Not a whole lot of teens can one day fantasize and daydream about forming a hip-hop
group, cutting a record and hitting the road, and then the very next see that dream turning into reality. But that’s
exactly what’s happened over the past two years for Milo Stokes. Of course, it doesn’t hurt that his cousin is
stage and film star Omarion, and that his dad is manager/director Chris Stokes. And it didn’t hurt that two of Milo’s
best friends, Marcel Wildy and Chris Cheeks, happened to be talented rappers and dancers.
In relatively a blink of an
eye, Milo, Marcel and Chris went from dancing and rhyming in each others’ living rooms to cutting songs in a state of
the art studio. The group was discovered by Omarion, who signed 2 Much to his O Records abel, and is currently recording under
the leadership of Chris Stokes, the man behind B2K and writer/director of “You Got Served,” starring B2K frontman
Omarion (Milo’s cousin).
While hanging with Omarion and B2K toured the states just a couple years ago, Milo, Wildy
and and Cheeks were eager to start their own group, one that would, like B2K, fuse hot dance moves with smooth R&B and
magnetic hip-hop. During the 33rd stop on the tour, during a show in New York, that dream took a giant
leap toward reality
when Chris Stokes—from the soundboard—spotted a young kid in the crowd with strong pipes and killer moves. After
a brief audition backstage for Omarion and Chris Stokes, Bridgeport, Connecticut-native Myles Cleveland, became the missing
link to the group Milo and the gang had dreamt about. And just like that, 2 Much was born.
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