


Footage from this show was filmed and released on DVD as a live album titled Scream Tour IV: Hearthrobs Live. Performances by Pretty Ricky were considered by many online critics to be oversexualized, with the members in erotic positions and during some performances in their underwear. It was an installment in the Scream Tour series, sponsored by BET. Completing a circle, Omarion toured with a reformed B2K in 2019 before striking out on his own again on 2020’s The Kinection, a sinuous collection that sees him embrace trap and dancehall sounds while keeping up with guests like Busy Signal, T-Pain, and Wale.The Scream Tour IV (also referred to as Scream Tour IV: The HeartThrobs) was a summer 2005 concert tour featuring Bow Wow, Omarion, Marques Houston, B5, Pretty Ricky and Bobby Valentino. After a stint on Love & Hip-Hop: Hollywood, he returned to the charts with the slinky 2014 hit “Post To Be” and his fourth album Sex Playlist. 16), Bow Wow jumped onto Twitter to voice his frustrations with the tour, and hours later, he suggested an alternative trek for himself and Chris Brown. A 2006 collaboration with Timbaland, “Ice Box” showed his increasing maturity as Omarion channeled his heartbreak over a relationship’s end into what became his biggest solo hit. Things were briefly looking grim for the rest of the The Millennium Tour, but now it looks like they’re back on track. The Grammy-nominated album established Omarion as an R&B powerhouse who was just as compelling on the lean and funky Neptunes-assisted “Touch” as he was on “I’m Tryna,” a slow jam that showed off his knack for being both salacious and sweet. “I’m here to make you feel good.” And that’s just what he did with 2005’s O. “That was the moment I realized I’m here to make music,” he said. As he told Apple Music, he felt like he came into his own artistically when he was able to work with The Neptunes on his first solo album.

As the teenaged frontman for the R&B boy band B2K, Omarion lived every young singer’s dream of performing in front of screaming fans and lighting up the charts with hits like the frisky “Bump, Bump, Bump.” But for Omarion-who was born Omari Ishmael Grandberry in Inglewood, California, in 1984-that early success was just the beginning of a richer creative life.
