Jarell Damonté Houston Sr., known as J-Boog, is an American R&B singer, rapper, producer and actor. He is a member of R&B group B2K. The group achieved success in the early 2000s with singles like "Bump, Bump, Bump", "Uh Huh", and "Girlfriend", which all reached success on the Billboard Hot 100.
J-Boog was a member of the boy group B2K, along with Lil' Fizz, Raz-B, and Omarion. He starred in You Got Served, the hit dance movie, with his B2K bandmates, along with Marques Houston. He played the character Rico, the peacemaker of the group. Despite the film receiving mostly negative reviews, his performance in the movie was praised by many critics. Soon after, B2K announced they were disbanding and led each member on a various future endeavors.
''Post-B2K''
After the split of the boy band, Jarell partnered with bandmate Lil Fizz in 2006, where they recorded an EP album "Night Life". He then partnered with relative Marques Houston to become Vice President and Producer of long time music managerChris Stokes and Marques Houston film production company where he also acted in a few films. Jarell also appeared in ', and later was an ensemble cast member of an Off-Off Broadway stage production. J-Boog briefly appeared on an episode of ' in early 2018 to meet with bandmate Lil Fizz to discuss plans to reunite the band without Omarion due to him not agreeing to rekindle to band, but failed due to discrepancies with cast member and associate Ray J, who persuaded himself to be a bold replacement after being considered to join the band. In December 2018, it was announced by long time friend and business manager Damuer H. Leffridge that B2K would hold a reunion tour titled "The Millennium Tour" in 2019. The tour had featured Pretty Ricky, Lloyd, Mario, Bobby V, Chingy and the Ying Yang Twins. His experience with the tour was later documented in late 2019 season of "Love & Hip Hop: Hollywood" , where he deeply expressed his concerns within the group's fate because of personal discrepancies between some of the members that would interfere with the band's reputation, along with partnering with relative Marques Houston and his band Immature to develop a reunion tour for that band.
Personal life
J-Boog has four children, two daughters and two sons; Anaia Jolie Houston, Jarell Damonté Houston Jr., Tru Carter Houston with his ex fiancé Jondelle Michelle Lee. His fourth child, a baby girl, Zuri Ei'Lee Houston was born on February 21, 2020 with his now girlfriend Shelbie Gray.
