[2] Other bands included TopKat, the all-female jazz-fusion group Maiesha Rashad with Lavender Rain, and a 95-voice gospel choir for the Capitol Hill Seventh-day Adventist Church.
[1][2] The band performed to packed houses at a number of Washington, DC-area venues, especially Northwest D.C.’s Takoma Station, Bailey's Café and Grill, and a Professional Ladies’ Night at Republic Gardens.
[1][5][4] As Maeisha and the Hiphuggers' popularity grew, they welcomed additional members of Experience Unlimited and other local Go-Go bands to the group, such as "Sweet" Cherie Mitchell.
The band is credited with ushering in what is often called the "Grown ‘n’ Sexy" era of Go-Go due to the older age of the crowds they attracted.
[1][6] Maiesha played 70s-inspired concerts that appealed to people over 30, wearing afro wigs, dashikis, and bellbottoms and performing covers of Chaka Khan and Rufus, the Jackson 5 and Earth, Wind & Fire.
[6] Some members of the Go-Go community, like trombone player Mike "Hard Step" Taylor, have criticized the impact the Grown & Sexy movement had on Go Go music, noting that popular covers of soul music with a pocket became preferred by promoters causing original Go-Go compositions to take a back seat.
[7] However, former manager of Experience Unlimited Charles Stephenson, bandmate and EU frontman Gregory “Sugar Bear” Elliot, and Howard University professor Natalie Hopkinson credit Maeisha and the Hiphuggers with reviving Go-Go in the late 1990s and early 2000s and making it more acceptable to club owners.