<Tr> <Th_colspan="2"> Music video </Th> </Tr> <Tr> <Td_colspan="2"> "Too Close" on YouTube </Td> </Tr> <P> "Too Close" is a song by American R&B group Next, featuring uncredited vocals from Vee of Koffee Brown . It was released in September 1997 as the second single from their debut album Rated Next (1997). </P> <P> The song reached number one on the US Hot 100 and R&B charts and has gone Platinum making it their biggest and best known hit . In the 1998 US Billboard End - Year chart, the song reached number one . It contains a sample of "Christmas Rappin"' by Kurtis Blow . "Too Close" was a massive hit on Urban Contemporary radio stations by its fourth month of airplay in January 1998 and still the most played single by Next . </P>

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