Key Takeaways Pretty Ricky is marking 20 years in the game by facing off against B2K in a VERZUZ event where fans will vote on the winner round by round. Miami quartet Pretty Ricky—Spectacular Smith, Diamond “Baby Blue” Smith, Corey “Slick 'Em” Mathis, and Marcus “Pleasure P” Cooper—emerged in the mid-2000s as a raunchy, rap-heavy answer to squeaky clean boy bands. They broke through with 2005’s gold-certified debut Bluestars and hits like “Grind With Me” and “Your Body,” then topped the Billboard 200 with 2007’s Late Night Special and its single “On The Hotline. Pretty Ricky is one of the best boy bands of the new millennium. Originally composed of brothers Spectacular and Diamond “Baby Blue” Smith, their cousin Corey “Slick 'Em” Mathis, and Marcus “Pleasure P” Cooper, the Miami-bred quartet felt like a modern-day Jodeci except with more rappers than singers.…