Oaktowns 3-5-7 will join Choc'Let for a Yeah-Yeah-Yeah good show!!

?Oaktown’s 3.5.7 (Djuana Johnican/Sweet L.D., Phyllis Charles/Li’l P, and Tabatha King/Terrible T) began their career as the background dancers for MC Hammer. They appeared in the music videos for his songs Let’s Get It Started, Pump It Up, and They Put Me In the Mix. In addition, they toured nationally and globally with MC Hammer and appeared on numerous television shows.

Eventually MC Hammer decided he wanted to produce a female group (a la Prince’s Vanity 6 and Rick James’s Mary Jane Girls) consisting of his background dancers and christened them Oaktown’s 3.5.7, a combined homage to their hometown of Oakland, California and the .357 Magnum which was chosen to represent their powerful dance moves.

Their first release, Wild and Loose, sold more than 100,000 copies in its first month of release without radio airplay and spawned the hits We Like It, .3.5.7 Straight At You, Yeah, Yeah, Yeah, and the popular club anthem Juicy Gotcha Krazy (featuring vocalist B Angie B.)

After a twenty-year hiatus, the group has reformed, with members Sweet L.D. and Li’l P, and released a new single Get Up On It. They performed their reunion show in Austin, Texas, at the Austin PRIDE Festival in 2011 and also performed a set during the SXSW Music Festival in March 2013.

Oaktown’s 3.5.7 are currently working on a new cd scheduled to be released in 2014 which will feature brand new tracks as well as remixes of their chart-topping hits.