Christión was a male duo and the first R&B act to be signed to Jay-Z's Roc-A-Fella Records. Contemporary R&B (also known as R&B, urban) is a Music genre of western Popular music (predominantly American and Canadian Shawn Corey Carter (born December 4 1969 better known as Jay-Z, is an American Rapper and former CEO of Def Jam Recordings and Roc-A-Fella Roc-A-Fella Records is a United States record label founded by Shawn "Jay-Z" Carter. They released their single "Full of Smoke" on Roc-A-Fella in 1996, reaching #53 on the Hot 100 and #15 on the R&B charts.
The single's success got the group a deal with Def Jam Recordings, who released their debut album, Ghetto Cyrano in 1997. Def Jam Recordings is a United States based hip-hop Record label, owned by Universal Music Group, and operates as a part of The Island The album scored two more moderate hits on the charts with "Bring Back Your Love" reaching #67 on the R&B charts and "I Wanna Get Next to You" reaching #32 on the R&B charts.
In 2005, the group released a second album, Project Plato, on The Mint Records.