New Members
 In 2004, Dem Franchize Boyz' first single, "White Tees," shot into the Top 25 on the Billboard Hip-Hop and R&B charts with over 1,000 spins a week. The song became an urban anthem for the summer, and spawned a street trend of sporting a simple white tee. Prior to their 2004 debut, DFB released five independent street albums and mixtapes, creating a local following and scoring them a deal on Universal/Motown Records.
Their self-titled debut landed at Number One on the Heatseekers chart and the four friends from the projects of Atlanta had arrived. Jizzal Man (Bernard Leverette), Parlae (Maurice Gleaton), Pimpin (Jamall Willingham) and Buddie (Gerald Tiller) had formed at Atlanta's Westside High School, where they put their minds and rhyme skills together and throughout their school years, they honed their vision into what it is today.
With their second album featuring such successful artists as Da Brat, Bow Wow, Slim, Young Capone and JD (all from super Producer Jermaine Dupri's So-So Def family), DFB's franchise is a hot business.
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