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What do Blazin’ Squad look like now, when was Marcel Somerville on Love Island and what are the lads doing now?

BLAZIN' Squad are fondly remembered by nostalgic noughties pop fans.

The London group had seven hits in the Top 10 before one by one they slowly exited from the spotlight - but where are they now? And are they getting back together?

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Where are Blazin' Squad now?

Well, it seems the band's bucket of hair gel has long been abandoned, the gold bling taken to the charity shop and the sick rhymes swapped for blue collar jobs.

And as Marcel frequently mentioned in the Love Island villa the group are still good friends.

Marcel then got them all together for their first ever full reunion in early August 2017, and they all look incredibly different.

Fans may be shocked to know that the likes of Reea, Freek and Melo-d have gone back to their birth names.

But while the miniature gangsters have grown into adult-sized yuppies, they probably still live by the laws of the street, and we bet they all remember the lyrics to Flip Reverse It, too.

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Are Blazin' Squad going on tour?

The Crossroads hitmakers have announced a headline show at KOKO London on 26 November 2017 with seven members of the original line-up returning.

Confirming the reun

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Blazin' Squad

English band

Blazin' Squad were an Englishhip hopgroup. The group had six top ten hits, including "Crossroads", a cover version of the Bone Thugs-n-Harmony original.

Career

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In The Beginning: 2002

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The band released a number of white label singles on the Weighty Plates label featuring remixes of the track "Standard Flow" from their album In the Beginning. "Standard Flow" was remixed by Ras Kwarme and Origin Unknown, with a version available featuring Jamaican dancehall musician Elephant Man on guest vocals. Even though the releases were issued as underground white labels, "Standard Flow" sold enough copies to chart as Blazin' Squad's first Top 100 chart entry, peaking at number 78 on the chart of 17 August 2002 with three weeks in the countdown.^[2][3]

For their official debut, the band released a cover of the Bone Thugs-N-Harmony song "Crossroads" for Warner Music's East West Records label. This single was the first to reach the UK Top 40, and debuted in the number one spot on the UK Singles Chart of 31 August 2002.^[4] The song was highly re-recorded and hardly contained any lyrics of the original. The single was heavily criticised by the media, some of whom claimed their rap skills were 'not to be taken