Mr. Lee (born Leroy Haggard Jr. in 1968), sometimes credited as Lee Haggard or Mr. Lee & Kompany, is an American hip-house rapper, producer and DJ from Chicago, Illinois. He is known in the Chicago house music scene as one of the pioneers who brought hip hop to the genre, which would later be coined as hip house.
Mr. Lee charted three times on the Billboard Hot Dance Music/Club Play chart with "Get Busy" (No. 2, 1989), "Pump That Body" (No. 1, 1990) and "Get Off" (No. 32, 1992). His tracks "Pump Up London" (No. 64, 1988) and "Get Busy" (No. 41, 1989) featured in the UK Singles Chart. Mr. Lee released two albums, Get Busy in 1990 and I Wanna Rock Right Now in 1992.
Discography Albums Get Busy (1990) I Wanna Rock Right Now (1992)
Singles Year Single Peak chart positions Album US Dance US R&B/HH AUS N.B. The High Point number in the NAT column represents the release's peak on the national chart. NZ NLD BEL(FL) GER UK1986 "Shoot Your Best Shot" (as Mr. Lee & Kompany) (US only) — — — — — — — —singles only1987 "Can You Feel It" (as Mr. Lee & Kompany) (US only) — — — — — — — — "I Can't Forget" — — — — — — — 88 "Come to House" (US only) — — — — — — — —1988 "House This House" (US only) — — — — — — — — "Pump Up Chicago / Pump Up London" — — — — — — — 64 "Acid Fantaslee" (US only) — — — — — — — —1989 "Rock This Place" — — — — — — — — "Get Busy" 2 — 159 50 5 11 18 41Get Busy1990 "Pump That Body" 1 — 139 41 7 21 — 79 "I Like the Girls" — — 165 — 34 36 — — "Make It Funky" (Europe only) — — — — 47 — — —1992 "Hey Love (Can I Have a Word)" (featuring R. Kelly) — 15 183 23 — — — —I Wanna Rock Right Now "Take Me Higher" (Europe only) — — — — — — — — "Get Off" 32 — — — — — — — "Do It to Me" (US only) — — — — — — — — "—" denotes releases that did not chart or were not released.
See also List of number-one dance hits (United States) List of artists who reached number one on the US Dance chart
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