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On the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, "Poison" rose from number fifty-two to number thirty-eight in the week of April 14, 1990, and eventually peaked at number three for four consecutive weeks, beginning on June 9, 1990. I ended up having two songs on the album: 'Poison' and 'She's Dope!'." Straite cited German electronic group Kraftwerk and Latin musicians Tito Puente and Mongo Santamaria as influences on the song's sound and production. Comment below with facts and trivia about the song and we may include it in our song facts Comments. The song was performed by Bell Biv DeVoe.

I was thinking I wasn't going to be on the album because such heavyweights were already on it. Poison was the 52 song in 1990 in the Pop charts. When I wrote it as a song, I let a lot of my friends hear it, and they said it was weird. I didn't think that record was going to be that big because it was a personal love letter to my ex-girlfriend at the time. Straite had originally planned to feature the song on his own album, but plans changed when the members of Bell Biv DeVoe heard his demo version. The song was written and produced by Elliot Straite, AKA Dr. Freeze, "Poison" was the first single taken from Bell Biv DeVoe's debut album of the same name. The song, in the style of new jack swing, a late-1980s/early-1990s hybrid of R&B, hip hop and swing, was the group's most successful. " Poison" is the debut single by the American vocal group Bell Biv DeVoe.