One Love is the seventh studio album by American R&B group New Edition, released on November 9, 2004 by Bad Boy and Universal Records.
New Edition ultimately asked to be released from their Bad Boy contract amid disagrements with Combs on One Love's creative direction.
By 2002, New Edition were performing as the quintet of Ralph Tresvant, Ricky Bell, Ronnie DeVoe, Michael Bivins and Johnny Gill, but they hadn't recorded a new studio album since 1996's Home Again.
However, it took nearly two years for the album to be released, as the group struggled with Sean Combs, Bad Boy CEO, over creative control.
"[1] PopMatters editor Mark Harris wrote that "the end result is that youngsters today will likely view this album as just another generic pop/hip-hop/R&B Bad Boy release – along the lines of 112 – and those old enough to remember New Edition may see it as a too-hip bastardization of the group's original sound.