Y?N-Vee

Y?N-Vee (Pronounced: why envy) was an American female R&B/Hip hop group that formed in the early 1990s as the first act on PMP Records, who by 1994 linked a deal with the RAL division of Def Jam Music Group. PMP would later find success with R&B artist Montell Jordan in the following year.

The group's first recording was a posse cut for Johnny "J"'s one and only album, I Gotta Be Me. A recording with 2Pac and his affiliate group Thug Life soon followed. The group released their self titled debut album on October 18, 1994, which peaked at No.75 on the Billboard 200 album chart.

The group's success was short lived; they scored three charting singles on the U.S. Billboard Hot R&B/Hip-Hop Singles & Tracks chart, including a cover of Rose Royce's 1976 classic "I'm Going Down" from the Car Wash motion picture soundtrack (around the same time Mary J. Blige's cover officially became a mega-hit) and their biggest hit "Freedom" which was a one-off female supergroup lead track from the Panther soundtrack that featured Aaliyah, BlackGirl, En Vogue, For Real, TLC, Vanessa L. Williams among others.

In 1996 the group appeared in the film Phat Beach starring Brian Hooks. Former member Natasha Walker also appeared on the 2Pac songs "Lord Knows" from Me Against The World and "Check Out Time" from All Eyez On Me.