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Word to the Mutha!
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{{Infobox song
| name = Word to the Mutha!
| cover = Bell Biv Devoe - Word to the Mutha single cover.jpg
| alt =
| type = single
| artist = Bell Biv DeVoe featuring Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill
| album = WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album
| released =
| recorded =
| studio =
| venue =
| genre =
| length = 6:38 (WBBD-Bootcity! Version)
5:00 (Video Mix/Radio Edit)
| label = MCA
| writer = {{flatlist|
* Ricky Bell
* Michael Bivins
* Ronnie DeVoe
* Bret "Epic" Mazur
* Richard Wolf}}
| producer =
| chronology = Bell Biv DeVoe
| prev_title = She's Dope!
| prev_year = 1991
| next_title = The Best Things in Life Are Free
| next_year = 1992
| misc =
}}
'"Word to the Mutha!"' is a song co-written and performed by American contemporary R&B group Bell Biv DeVoe. It originally appeared on their debut studio album 'Poison' under the title '"Ronnie, Bobby, Ricky, Mike, Ralph and Johnny (Word to the Mutha)!"', but the title was shortened and a remixed version of the song was issued as the only official single from the group's remix album 'WBBD-Bootcity!: The Remix Album'. The song features vocals from Bobby Brown, Ralph Tresvant and Johnny Gill. It was the first recorded song to feature all six members of New Edition. Brown, Tresvant and Gill are credited separately on the single, rather than collectively as New Edition.
The song samples "A Star in the Ghetto" by Average White Band and "The Jam" by Graham Central Station.
A music video was filmed in and around the Orchard Park Housing Projects, in the Roxbury section of Boston, where five of the six (excluding Johnny Gill) New Edition members grew up.
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