What Happened to 112? Still Touring as a Duo in 2026

If you owned a CD player between 1996 and 2003, you owned something by 112. Four voices out of Atlanta, stacked harmonies, and a run of singles — “Only You,” “Cupid,” “Peaches & Cream” — that turned up at every cookout, every prom, every slow-dance moment of the era. Then the group name kept appearing on tour posters while the faces changed. So whatever happened to 112? The short answer: two of them never stopped, and 2026 has been one of their busiest years in a decade.

01Profile

Group name

112 (originally performing as Forte)

Origin

Atlanta, Georgia, USA

Formed

Early 1990s; the group marked 30 years in 2025

Founding members

Marvin "Slim" Scandrick, Michael "Mike" Keith, Daron Jones, Quinnes "Q" Parker

Current touring lineup

Slim and Mike

Label peak

Bad Boy Records (signed mid-1990s), later Def Soul

Signature songs

"Only You," "Cupid," "Peaches & Cream," "Dance with Me," "It's Over Now"

Major award

Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group, as featured artists on "I'll Be Missing You"

Status in 2026

Actively touring; roughly 7 million monthly streaming listeners, per the City of Lancaster

That last line is worth sitting with. A group most people file under ”90s nostalgia” is pulling audience numbers that plenty of current radio acts would take in a heartbeat. Nostalgia, it turns out, is a real business.

02The Rise: From Atlanta Teens to Platinum

Four kids and a nightclub name

The core of 112 came together as teenagers in Atlanta, singing as a group called Forte before landing an audition for Sean “Puffy” Combs. The name they eventually adopted came from the club where that audition happened — a small detail that says a lot about how quickly things moved. They signed to Bad Boy Records in the mid-1990s, at the precise moment the label was the loudest thing in American popular music.

The Bad Boy machine

Their 1996 self-titled debut did what debuts rarely do: it produced durable standards. “Only You,” especially in its remix form alongside The Notorious B.I.G. and Mase, welded the group permanently to the Bad Boy sound. Then came the assignment that changed their ceiling. As featured vocalists on “I’ll Be Missing You,” the 1997 tribute to Biggie, they were part of one of the best-selling singles of the decade — and they walked away with a Grammy for Best Rap Performance by a Duo or Group.

Room 112 and the peak

Room 112 arrived in 1998 with “Love Me” and “Anywhere.” Part III followed in 2001 and is, for most listeners, the album. “Peaches & Cream” became their calling card and earned a Grammy nomination. “Dance with Me” and “It’s Over Now” kept them on the radio through the turn of the decade. Crucially, this wasn’t a manufactured package — Daron Jones was writing and producing a large share of the group’s biggest material, including “Cupid” and “It’s Over Now.” The talent was in-house.

03The Turning Point: When Four Became Two

The slide wasn’t dramatic. It was structural. Hot & Wet (2003) and Pleasure & Pain (2005) arrived as the group moved past its Bad Boy peak, and R&B’s commercial center of gravity shifted underneath them. The group went quiet after 2005, with members pursuing individual work.

Then the comeback that looked like a happy ending. In 2017 all four reunited for an album titled, simply, Q, Mike, Slim, Daron — a statement of unity right there on the cover. It didn’t hold. Reporting on the exact timing varies: Wikipedia dates the departures of Q Parker and Daron Jones to around 2018, while Vibe and TMZ covered Slim and Mike confirming the split publicly, and other outlets place the break around 2020. What isn’t in dispute is the outcome. Since then, Slim and Mike have carried the 112 name.

• 1996Debut album on Bad Boy Records; "Only You" breaks the group nationally.
• 1997Featured on "I'll Be Missing You," which wins a Grammy the following year.
• 2001"Peaches & Cream" and "Dance with Me" make Part III their commercial high-water mark.
• 2005Pleasure & Pain released; the group goes largely dormant afterward.
• 2017All four members reunite for the album Q, Mike, Slim, Daron.
• 2018-2020Q Parker and Daron Jones exit; reports differ on the precise date.
• 2020Slim and Mike release the EP Forever as a duo.
• 2025Live Nation announces the Room 112 Tour for the group's 30th anniversary.
• 2026The tour wraps in Atlanta in February; festival and casino dates follow through the fall.

04The Business of Keeping a Group Alive

Here’s the part that gets lost in the “who’s the real 112” arguments online: keeping a vocal group together for three decades is an economic problem as much as a personal one. Four people splitting one fee, four separate ambitions, four households. Slim has been candid that solo detours were sometimes driven by simple necessity, and he’s been blunt about what he thinks breaks groups apart.

In a group, you have to be selfless. If you have any selfish bone in your body, you’re going to be the cancer of the group. — Slim, speaking on Ryan Cameron Uncensored, July 2025

The other half of the equation is ownership. In 2023, as the BBC and other outlets reported, Sean Combs agreed to return Bad Boy publishing rights to artists and writers who had worked with the label — a group that included 112. For a catalog that still streams heavily, that’s not a symbolic gesture.

The group’s Bad Boy association also means they get asked about Combs constantly, particularly after his 2025 federal trial. Slim addressed it directly rather than dodging.

It’s unfortunate what happened with Diddy. That’s somebody people looked up to, and there was no win for any of the victims or anybody involved in the situation. — Slim, via The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, July 2, 2025

05What They Are Doing Now

The Room 112 Tour, and what came after

In August 2025, Live Nation announced the Room 112 Tour — the group’s first proper headlining run, built around the 30th anniversary and packaged with fellow Bad Boy alumni Total and singer Case. It opened November 5, 2025 at the Akron Civic Theatre and closed February 6, 2026 at the Tabernacle in Atlanta, hitting Brooklyn, Detroit, Chicago, Dallas, Los Angeles and Washington, D.C. along the way.

Reviewing the January 23, 2026 stop at YouTube Theater in Los Angeles, The Knockturnal noted that 112 performed as a duo — “down two members,” as the review put it — running through “It’s Over Now,” the “Only You” remix and “Peaches & Cream,” with on-screen tributes to Biggie and Tupac. The verdict was that Slim and Mike carried it comfortably.

Slim, for his part, frames the group’s survival as a matter of showing up.

We’ve never cheated it, never quit from it. That’s the reason why 112 is still right here, and why Live Nation is giving us this opportunity. — Slim, via The Rickey Smiley Morning Show, July 2, 2025

A full 2026 calendar

The touring didn’t stop when the headline run ended. In 2026 the group has played festival and casino dates including the Old but Gold Hip Hop Festival in Switzerland on August 1 and a set at a Kansas City food-and-music festival in June. On July 10, 2026, the City of Lancaster, Pennsylvania announced 112 as the headliner for Celebrate Lancaster on August 14 — a free downtown festival — with Mayor Jaime Arroyo saying the group’s nostalgia “should add an extra layer of excitement and energy” to the event. An August 15 date at Oak Grove in Kentucky and an October 4 casino show in Auburn, Washington are also on the books.

New music continues to trickle out under the 112 name; the group’s official site currently features tracks including “Spend It All,” “For Us” and “Lookin 4 Love.” A full album has not been announced.

Q Parker and Daron Jones

The two departed members haven’t disappeared. Q Parker has built a steady solo lane, releasing Evolution of Romance and singles including “Big,” “Keep On Loving” and “Put It On.” As of mid-2026 he has reportedly been preparing a second volume, and he is booked to perform aboard the One Voyage 2026 cruise in late October. Daron Jones — the writer-producer behind much of the group’s classic catalog — has continued releasing solo material and working behind the boards. No reunion of the original four has been announced.

06Summary

The honest version of the 112 story isn’t a comeback and it isn’t a collapse. It’s two men who decided the catalog was worth defending, and an audience that keeps showing up to hear it.

Thirty years on, 112 is a case study in what actually keeps a legacy act working: a catalog people still want to sing along to, and at least two members willing to get on the bus. Whether the original four ever share a stage again is anyone’s guess — but if you want to hear those harmonies live in 2026, the dates are there. Some of them are even free.