Driven by the hit singles "I Just Can't Handle It" (R&B #10), "I Like the Way (The Kissing Game)" (#1 R&B/Pop), "I Can't Wait Another Minute" (R&B #1, Pop #8) and "Just Another Girlfriend" (R&B #41), the album received an RIAA platinum certification.

Also, Hi-Five is the only album to feature original Hi-Five member Toriano Easley, who was arrested for first-degree murder and manslaughter after the album was recorded but just before it was released.

Easley is heard sharing lead vocals on "The Way You Said Goodbye", "Rag Doll", "I Can't Wait Another Minute", and "I Know Love".

The song, "Too Young" (in a single edit version), also appeared on the soundtrack to the 1991 John Singleton film Boyz n the Hood.

It is the first recorded appearance of Mobb Deep rapper Prodigy, who was 15 when this song was released, which he revealed in his book My Infamous Life: The Autobiography of Mobb Deep's Prodigy.