Omarion, J-Boog, Lil Fizz and Raz-B released “Mileage,” their first newly recorded official single together in more than two decades. The song arrived through BPC Music Group as the lead release from “Eclipse,” a studio album scheduled for this fall.
The timing was deliberate. “Mileage” arrived 25 years to the day after B2K released its debut single, “Uh Huh,” on July 17, 2001.
Produced by Ethos, “Mileage” uses the experiences people carry into relationships as its central metaphor. Rather than treating a partner’s past as automatic disqualification, the song argues for acceptance, growth and the possibility of starting again.
“People lived their lives before they met you,” Omarion told YouKnowIGotSoul while discussing the record.
That message is difficult to separate from the group delivering it.
B2K’s members have spent much of their adult lives trying — and frequently failing — to move beyond old disputes, broken trust and public attacks. “Mileage” does not erase that history, but its title fits four men attempting to make use of everything they traveled through before returning to the same studio.
Bobby Yan directed the accompanying video, which places the group’s synchronized choreography amid an industrial warehouse, a Los Angeles rooftop and automotive imagery built around the song’s title. The presentation allows the members to look and perform like grown men without asking them to imitate the teenagers who helped define early-2000s R&B.
B2K first introduced “Mileage” during its late-June Verzuz battle with Pretty Ricky. Friday’s full release, however, marks the first time the latest reunion has produced an official new single rather than another tour, television appearance or performance of the group’s established hits.
The original lineup previously reunited for the Millennium Tour in 2019 but did not release new music. That comeback eventually gave way to another round of public disagreements and separation.
The current reconciliation became visible in April 2025, when J-Boog, Lil Fizz and Raz-B joined Omarion during the final stop of his Millennium Tour. The full group followed with a surprise performance at the BET Awards that June.
This year, B2K reunited with Bow Wow for the Boys 4 Life Tour, reviving a partnership that helped make the Scream Tour era a defining moment for young R&B and hip-hop audiences.
The reunion did not require anyone to pretend the intervening years had been peaceful.
B2K split amid internal friction, financial disagreements and disputes involving its management. The years that followed included public insults and long periods when the members did not speak to one another.
“It definitely starts with maturity,” Fizz told The Associated Press earlier this year while discussing the reconciliation.
The new recording process also gives the members a degree of control they say they did not have during their original run.
“We picked every record, we’re making all the decisions,” J-Boog told the AP.
B2K has not announced an exact release date or complete track list for “Eclipse.” The group has said the album will address more mature subjects and reflect the members’ lives as adults rather than attempt to recreate the teen records that made them famous.
The members also have returned to the studio with The Underdogs, the production team whose earlier work with B2K included “Gots Ta Be.”
The album would be B2K’s first studio project since “Pandemonium!” and its first full-length group release since the soundtrack to the 2004 film “You Got Served.”
That original run was brief but substantial.
B2K’s self-titled debut reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200 and topped the R&B albums chart. “Bump, Bump, Bump,” featuring Diddy, later reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 and became the group’s biggest hit.
Those records ensured that B2K would always have a market for reunions. They do not guarantee an audience for new material from four men now speaking to listeners who grew up alongside them.
Nostalgia got B2K back into arenas. “Mileage” is the first evidence that the reunion intends to go somewhere new.
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