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B2K may live to regret their name--an acronym for Boys For 2000--as they age. Especially since they've taken great pains to try to convince listeners how much they've grown up on Pandemonium!, their second disc in less than nine months. To that effort, the underage musicians studded the disc with enough sexual innuendo to make even R. Kelly. In fact, the Los Angeles quartet engaged the services of the beleaguered rap impresario to write, produce, and arrange "Bump, Bump, Bump," a rather randy track that kicks off the disc featuring P. Diddy's cheeky rap about his utter appreciation of the female anatomy. And the escapades don't stop there, the bittersweet "Sleepin'" finds B2K apologizing to an erstwhile girlfriend for catting around, "You Can Get It," shows them in hot pursuit of another man's women, while "Tease" finds them pouting over an unconsummated encounter. But just when you're about to write them off as unrepentant hound dogs the pendulum swings, and B2K drop the swagger and bravado to deliver the sweet valentines of "My Everything," and the wistful innocence and regret of "One Kiss," so like the yearning ballads that made fans swoon for the band in the first place. --Jaan Uhelszki