April 16, 2025 • 52 mins
In this episode of Club Shay Shay, Shannon Sharpe sits down with the legendary Bobby Brown—the original bad boy of R&B, Grammy Award–winning icon, New York Times bestselling author, and chart-topping phenomenon. Bobby dives into founding Bobby Brown Foods with his wife and shares his love for cooking—especially his unbeatable fried chicken. He reflects on whether his kids will follow in his entertainment footsteps and reveals his all-time favorite song he’s written. Bobby breaks down his songwriting process, his dynamic collaborations with producer Teddy Riley, and gives us a front-row seat into the making and legacy of My Prerogative. He even reacts to Britney Spears' controversial remake and opens up about being inspired by icons like Michael Jackson, Prince, Rick James, and Stevie Wonder. He shares the real story behind MC Hammer asking him to wear parachute pants and reveals how New Edition taught Michael Jackson how to moonwalk sideways, reflecting on his favorite memories of the King of Pop. He also weighs in on Chris Brown vs. Usher as Michael Jackson’s closest successor and recounts meeting Usher for the first time. From naming his favorite modern artists—SZA, Tems, Jazmine Sullivan, Anthony Hamilton, Bruno Mars—to addressing the hot debate ("Is R&B dead?"), Bobby keeps it real. He drops his Mount Rushmore of R&B singers (Prince, Michael, Marvin, Stevie), reflects on Don’t Be Cruel selling 12 million copies, and gets candid about streaming's impact on artists, the importance of owning your masters, and surviving fame from a young age. He also opens up about being kicked out of New Edition, how predatory music deals cost him $30 million, and why going solo was the best decision of his career. Bobby names his top four singing groups of all time—Gap Band, Jackson 5, New Edition, and Kool & the Gang—and reveals his best and worst purchases, including the wild story of spending $1 million in a single day. He reflects on the pain of being taken advantage of by family and friends, and the loss of one of his closest friends to gun violence. He also shares the pride of building his own studio—where artists like OutKast recorded. From Donald Trump’s cameo in his “On Our Own” video to his run-ins with the law—including getting arrested for dancing with a fan in Georgia—Bobby tells it all. He talks about working with Martin Lawrence in A Thin Line Between Love and Hate, starring in Two Can Play That Game, and why he regrets turning down a role in Strictly Business with Halle Berry and Tommy Davidson. Bobby looks back fondly on his time on Real Husbands of Hollywood with Kevin Hart, Nick Cannon, and Nelly, and opens up about the intense experience of his reality show with Whitney Houston. He also talks about being shot by an ex-boyfriend of his then-girlfriend—and his romance with Janet Jackson in the '80s. The R&B superstar shares his mission with the Bobbi Kristina Serenity House, a charity created in honor of his late daughter. From the highest highs to the most heartbreaking lows, Bobby Brown proves once again why he’s not just a music icon—he’s a cultural legend. Don’t miss this powerful and unfiltered conversation.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Think you if what you're coming back part two is underway.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Why do you think it's so hard or so difficult
for groups that break up? I mean, you see some
groups that never broke up, Earth Winding Fire, Ohio Player,
you know, break Barcase, things like that stay together and
they still touring forty fifty years later. But a lot
of times when groups break up, if they ever break up,
they don't get back together.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They have no I don't think they pray enough together.
That's the one thing New Addition does. We pray together,
you know, we love each other enough to put up
with each other's you know, and put it to the
(00:47):
side when it's time to put it to the side.
When it's time to work. New Addition will be the
front then, at the front line, ready to do it,
ready to get it on, ready to give the audience
what they deserve.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And I love that about us.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Looking back, if Bobby could do anything different, what would
he do different? Oh boy, I wouldn't have spent so
much money so quick. I mean I would, I would.
I wouldn't buy as many cars and leave them on
the side of the road. I would buy cars and
each city that I went in. Like if I saw
(01:24):
somebody driving down the street in a nice car and
I'm on the tour bus and we're in that town
for the day, Yeah, I would ask the person to
buy if I could buy their car. And then so
you bought the person's car, bought the person's car, and
would leave it at the airport, or leave it at
the side of the road, or leave it at a hotel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Damn wrong with you? I don't know. I don't know
what was wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
With So somebody got a car. Somebody got a car, like, oh, oh, well,
it was just a car. But I don't I would
I would not have done that in my right state
of mind. So your financial people like, Bobby, you gotta
stop this. Your mom, your dad, well, like you said,
(02:07):
it was your prerogative, did you. I mean, like, who, Bobby,
you do realize this isn't normal. I understand if you
wanted to buy a car, said man, I really like
this car. I mean I'm gonna get this car, a
ship this car to Boston or ship this car here.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
How do you buy? I wasn't thinking like that. I
was just I was I don't know, I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Was I heard this man, this man say he would
literally buy a car, drive it, leave inside the road,
or leave it parked at the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, lord, I wouldn't do that. Now, now I know
your wife had gonna go for that, ain't.
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Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh I gotta go before you. I'm gonna give you four.
You get four again, just four mount rushmore groups So
you got Jackson five New audition Isisley Brothers, Temptations, Boys,
The Men, Earth Winning Fire four Tops you just named
them all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now you know we got cool in the game.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
SWB Druid Hill Jodasy, Destiny Child, Jagged Ed Tony, Tony Toe, Commodorf,
oj Parliament, the Miracles, Ohio Players, Gladdys Knight, the Pilp
in the Gap band you only get four? Oh man,
I would have to go to the gap Ben Gap Okay,
Charlie Ugle, Charlie, Uncle Charlie. Definitely Jackson's Yep. They gotta
(04:59):
be up there. They gotta be up there. I would
definitely vote my group up there in new edition, and
last but not least, probably.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Cooling the Gang.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, I'm sorry, Isley, I'm sorry, Earth Winding Fire. He
ain't put y'all up there, Ohio, Playoffs, Parliament, Oh jays.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
See, that was trickery.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That was trickery because I couldn't remember all of the
names that he said.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The Temptation of the Five Harby Did you watch that movie?
I love that movie.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is That movie is such a classic of what
groups actually go through. Really, yes, this is a classic
group story. That's what that was my next one. Do
these movies remind you of group experience?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah? We had some experiences like the fire of our beats.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hey, did you ever feel like David Rufford ain't nobody
come and see you own it. I couldn't say that.
How did you become the lead? I've never been the lead.
(06:26):
I think Ralph's always been the lead singer of our group,
and we take pride in having such a great lead
singer like Ralph Tresvent.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He's smooth, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
He was somebody, he's somebody that he's sensitive on stage
and off stage. But this brother I'm talking about, this
brother can mispractice for the whole week, come in and
do the steps better than everybody that is that has
(07:02):
practiced that whole week. He will have all the dance
steps down, have his whole persona of what he's gonna
do on stage. He knows exactly what to do when
he hits that stage, and that's why we have the best,
best lead singer ever. Do you think there was any
ever any jealousy among bandmates.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I would hope not. I've never seen any jealousy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They've always been supportive of me, and I've always been
supportive of them, and I think that's what kept the
bond with the group so strong. Well, you ain't tell
me why you got voted out. It had to be something,
It had to be something going on. Your wife would
not shaking her hands now, yeh, sum had to be
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Hey, they booted you out the group. I was too wild.
I was too wild, but you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Would, hey you Okay, maybe you missed meeting, I mean
the private rehearsals.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Probably miss rehearsals. I probably missed shows.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You miss shown I miss shows. I missed everything. Oh,
I wouldn't miss I wouldn't miss everything. I would, you know, Damn, Bobby,
I'm trying to get you some grades. I was like, okay,
maybe he's a little late, not a rehearsal, maybe he missed,
you know, a little functionary was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How you missed the whole show?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you do realize like the people that say attendants
like damn new addition, Well, Bobby, yeah, that's what would
normally happened, Riz, Bobby, I don't miss shows now. I
don't miss shows now, and you unless I'm not well right,
let me ask you this. You go solo, what do
(08:43):
you think's the what's the worst and the best part
of a solo career? Or if there is such a
worst part of a solo career, there's really no no
downside to being a solo artist. I think you you
once you take control of your career. Once I took
control of my career, it was all upsides.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
The music got better, the money got better. Not having
to split Yeah, your money, you split the five way
I got it off. Yes, So there's no downside to that.
(09:27):
How hard, because, like you said, you wanted to kind
of get away from kind of like the bubble gum.
So how hard was it for you to reinvent yourself
as an adult because for the most part, people had
only seen you in that group, and they had only
seen you doing Candy Rain and they only had seen
you do it mister telephone man, so that's all they
knew you from. So how difficult was it for you
(09:48):
to reinvent yourself to be taken seriously as an adult artist.
It wasn't that difficult once I once I got to
try it up issue and I started to really see
the crowd reacting to what I was doing. It just
(10:08):
made me feel stronger. And what I was what I
was doing when I was about you saw the crowd
react like that in the back of your mind as
you're performing, I made the right decision.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
This is what I'm supposed to do. That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That it got into the back of my head that
if I didn't do this, I don't think I would
have I don't think that we would be still successful
if I hadn't went solo. If I hadn't, you know,
gotten put out the group and had to, you know,
find for myself.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You do realize it's not often.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You go solo boom, blow up Bill Bill Devout go
solo boom, blow up, raw boom, that it doesn't happen
like that normally. You get LTD, you get Jeffrey Osborne.
He does what he does, You get the Commodoors, you
get Litel Richie, he goes off, does what he does.
You get Harold melan in the Blue Notes, you get
Teddy Pindigrads. He goes and do it what he does.
(11:12):
But all the members were standalones. Once they had to
stand alone. You realize how unique that is, Bobby, did
you ever think about that, like, damn we had It's
like having Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Damn that's what you had.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, New addition, that's what New Addition stands for. It
stands for, you know, we are the supergroup that that
did the impossible. Yes, I can't think about the top
of my head that I'm looking at all these groups
that I named. I don't think when you go back
and look at him obviously en sync with you know, JT.
(11:51):
But when you go back and look at it, I
don't know if they had the success like individuals like
you guys had.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No one has done it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow, that's the great thing about new addition. No one
has done what they have what we have accomplished. How
difficult is it to be a star. When you talk
about being a star, what.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Do you mean? I mean the line being in the
lime light?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Being being in the limelight? Okay, you got it. Obviously
you got to produce in the area of what you're in.
So you're a singer, you got to be able to
come out with hit records. You're an entertainer also, you
gotta be able to entertain because some people I feel
that they're better entertainers than singers, and some people I
feel they can sing better than they can entertain.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But you were both.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You had to be both, and you had to be
lights out every single night that you hit the stage.
The pressure to keep coming out with these hit songs,
the pressure to perform at the highest level.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You can't have enough. You can't have an off night, Bobby. Now,
you can't by yourself. You can't. You can't. I think.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I think that's why I say work on your craft,
always practice on your craft. Always always be be mean
to yourself when it's time to rehearse, when it's time
to to get out there and do it, when it's
(13:19):
time to get in front of people, and be nice
to people. I've never said no to an autograph from
a fan, never ever. So you enjoyed the meet and greets.
I enjoy the meet and greets. I enjoy being recognized.
I enjoy every every, every part of it. Because it's
(13:43):
it's it's uh, who who pays my bills? They pay
my bills, Damn Boddy. What about when you're going to
sneak tip and you ain't want to be recognized, what
it is they recognize you? You have to you have
to go ahead and do it and say to make
sure they don't blow the cover. Right, let me ask
(14:05):
you this. Obviously, the cars were some of the worst purchases.
They probably wouldn't have been bad had you not left them. Yeah,
So what are some of the worst purchases, because now
you got you got this money. I mean, you're making
more money than you ever thought, Bobby, those were probably
my worst purchases. And the house in Atlanta, Georgia. I
(14:29):
bought this big in Alpharetta, about this big mansion from
I believe the porn king or the.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Once it was.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Owned by the porn king, and then it was owned
by the waterbed King, and then I bought it. And
it was just the worst, the worst money I've ever spent.
That bought the house, put like two million dollars into
the house, and then did not live in the house.
What just left it in my family, And it was
(15:03):
probably the worst purchase I ever purchased. You mentioned earlier
that you gave a lot of your money away. You
gave a lot of money to your family. You gave
a lot of money to friends before you realize. When
did you realize that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're my family, they're my friends, but they taking advantage
of me. How far down the road were you before you?
I was all the way down the road, all the
way all the way in. You know, I don't regret it.
You don't know, I don't regret it. You know what
I've been through in my life, I think we're all
(15:43):
learning lessons, learning teaching moments that got me to the
place that I am. Now, what would you do different
in that situation? You got to say, I will place
you back, you know what you know now? And fifty
six I'm gonna play issue back in that situation? What
would you do different? I would put my family on allowances, Okay,
(16:08):
not unlimited budgets, huh. Not unlimited budgets. No, I wouldn't
just buy frivolously frivolous things, you know from you know,
spoil him, and I would just I would, I would.
I would take care of myself a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I've been through so much, you know, as far as
you know, from drugs to alcohol to to just just
not taking care of myself, and I think I would
just take care of myself a lot better.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is it true?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You once bought a store for a woman because her
boss mistreated her. Yes, and she owned the store and
then she had the bass start working with her.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yes. What made you do that?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I saw how he was treating her, and I didn't
like it, and it was just a way of of
me telling, telling myself, I could change I could change
a person's life with just one check, one check, and
that one check. That lady owned that place for I
(17:21):
don't know how long, and she had the boss working
working for her.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Maybe she had him treated him, maybe she treated him her. Yes,
I hope so, I hope she fired him later on.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Hold on, it says you spent a million. You spend
a million dollars in one day.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And one day?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What the hell you buy?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I bought three watches, two cars, and a house. You
didn't want to space it out? And I'm a buy
a house this week? No, okay, I get to watch.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The thing was? The thing was I wanted to spend
a million dollars in one day. I mean, just for
the hell of it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Where where somebody, if you spend a million dollars in
the day, where you're gonna be like Brewster's million, all
of a sudden, get ten million at the end of
that day, if you spend a million. Wasn't No, I
wish that was. I wish that was the case. Though,
I wish that was the case. I mean, Bobby, did
you do I mean, as you said, clearly you didn't
think it was as It was ridiculous then, But as
(18:28):
you sit back here now thirty years later, do you
realize how ridiculous that was?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah? I do, I do, I do. That's why I'm
glad I got such a beautiful wife that won't allow
me to do that no more. Well, you told her
that story, did she punch you? How many times? That? Just?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What to?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cause she said she's money we could have had. She
just laughed it off and said, you know, we gotta work, then, Yes,
gotta work.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Got to keep it up.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What have you learned about money? It's not to be
taken advantage of. It's about knowing when, knowing when to
how they say, knowing when to hold them, knowing when
to fold them, when when to walk away. Yeah, that's
(19:21):
what That's what I think about money.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Someone that's coming into money now in this industry or
any industry, and they came to Bobby, what's some of
the advice you would give them?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Save invest?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You can't you can't go wrong with owning pieces of
property because they're not making anymore. True, So I would
tell them to invest and buy lots of land. We
talked earlier. You're in the food service business, do you
wish you had invested more earlier. Yes, definitely wish that
(20:00):
I knew what I I wish I knew what I knew. No,
now you know, I wish I met my wife a
lot earlier. Right, Yeah, that's what I wish. Do you
ever look back at like, damn, I blew a lot
(20:22):
of effing money on bullge eve?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah. Yes, if I could switch that around, I'll be
the cheapest mother.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But ask your question, though, if you could switch it around,
let's just say, for the sake of argument, Obviously you're
gonna have a nice lifestyle. You're gonna have you a
nice home, You're gonna have a nice couple of cars.
You have kids you're gonna take care of. But let's
just say, for the sake of argument, we switched that around,
and now you're worth it ten, twenty, fifteen, twenty times
what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now? Are you with the group? Am I with the group? Yeah?
Are you toured with the group?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Let's just say, for the sake of arment, body now yet,
Bobby work you wanted to Bobby's worth two hundred and
fifty a.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Quarter of a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm still tolling with no addition, I say no, you're not.
No the why said she on the yacht? Yeah she
can be on a yacht. But that's just something about
touring with them.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What is it about there with the it's the brotherhoods
with your brother camaraderie and the screaming Yeah, because a
lot of it, damn there. I guarantee you seventy five,
eighty five, maybe even ninety percent of the people that's
in the audience that grew up listening to you guys.
Now you have new fans, but you have you have
(21:44):
a base, a base, the any for lifers, a group
of people that I mean, we.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We cherished them.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We cherished them because they are they are die hard fans,
you know, and they know us a lot better than
we know ourselves. And it's just beautiful to see their
faces when we go out there and see all of
the familiar faces that we've seen over the years, over
the years, over the years, they grew up with us.
(22:17):
Did you own a music studio in Atlanta? Yes, Serey
three thousand and Big Boy recorded the song Yeah they
bought this yes, wow?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah? What made you What made you decide to own
a studio? Not wanting to spend my budget on other
people's studios.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh yeah, you're making somebody else rich. I was making
somebody else rich by recording in their studio. So I
bought a studio to record my own albums. And then
you let other people come in there and Atlanta and
you got rich out deal.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah. So what are some of the artists that came
through your studio? Of course you know.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
People Rice and used to come there. Yeah, out cast,
a lot of the the young entertainers from Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is it still is it still folks in the studio today?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes it is, but it's called stink Okay, but they
still on it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, they still own it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You had a friend that was failely shocked. He was
sitting in your billy. Do you remember that moment?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So what happened to mistaken identity? No, they wanted him,
they wanted him dead. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't I don't know the jest of how what happened,
but I just know that it was just.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You were in your hometown. You were you were back
home right Boston, Massachusetts. Yes, I'll never forget that moment.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Never.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
One hundred and seventy eight bullets was in car one
hundred and seventy eight damn, and I didn't get scratched once.
Hold on, they fired one hundred and seventy eight rounds
into a car and not one bullet touched you.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Not one bullet.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's how I know I got somebody watching over me. Yeah,
there are a lot of your mom and your dad,
a lot of people. Yeah for you, Bobby, that's unheard of.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Wow. Did you.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
How did that moment change? Did you like, did you
realize how fortunately you work? Do you realize like that
has to be a god?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, oh yeah. And it also taught me that going
back home sometimes ain't always with ain't where you need to.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Be because everybody's not happy for your success.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Bobby, Right, even though you're from a small town, I
mean they saw you, I mean, and the other the
way I look at it, Bobby, if we're from the
same from all town, you had the same opportunity I had.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I mean sometimes it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I mean I grew up with you know, my grandmother
raised me, but I for the most part, went to
the same high school, pretty much did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So we all had an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Maybe it wasn't music maybe it was sports, Maybe it
was you could have been a lawyer, maybe you'd been
a doctor, but you had an opportunity. What is it
that you think that makes someone resempful of someone else's success.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know, they believe that they should have it, should
have been them in some some form of fashion, But
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I don't know. It just it's mind boggling that.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
People tend to get jealous of someone else's success, right,
when you should just bust your ass and work, work
hard to be your own successful being.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right. You had Donald Trump in your music video on
Our Own in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, I did not know Donald Trump at that time.
The company, the record label had that, Okay, they did it. Yeah,
he was just a popular person, yes, in New York City.
And it was about the Ghostbusters. So Donald was in
(26:29):
the video. Did you think Donald Did you think almost
thirty five years later he would be President of the
United States?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, Hell no, that's crazy, right, it is it is acting. Yes,
What made you want to do do that? Uh, it's
a form of entertainment that I feel passionate about, like
doing the different doing doing the different movies that I've done.
(27:04):
Just working with the different comedians and the different actors.
I had so much fun, really had so much fun,
And it was like those long days. It's a hurry
up and wait situation. Yes, it's a hurry up and wait.
You hurry up to wait for you to shoot five
(27:26):
minutes of film, but you wait four hours, five hours,
six hours, ten hours. Yes, you out there. You might
be on the SAT twelve hours and actually work five
minutes five minutes, as long as they're paying for them
twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I'm looking at some of the actresses and actors you
work with, Angela Bassett, Lynn Winfield, Regina King, Chris Tucker,
Chris Rock, Jennifer Lewis, did Gregoraro Kim.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What's some of the best advice that you go a
while I'm set, pay attention to pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
What the director wants from the scene, pay attention to
the script, and if they want you to go off script,
let you add lib a little bit, which Martin allowed
me to do in Thin Line between Love and Hate.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It was a lot of fun shooting this different scenes
that we shot. There was one scene where Martin wasn't there,
and it was basically me directing the scene. And it's
the scene where I'm in the club and I'm asking
the the girls, you know, we need some dancers, you know,
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to fill up the club. So Martin wasn't there that day,
so they allowed me to just they allowed me to
you know, block that and do that scene myself. And
that was a lot of fun. Do you wish you
had done more of it? I still want to do acting? Yeah, yeah,
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definitely what.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're looking to what what what's the type of role
bodies looking to get into?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Uh No, romantic roles? Wife, they're going for that. Huh no, wife,
he ain't going for that way. So no more, No
more romantic comedies. Yeah, shoot them up movies. I like
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shoot them up?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Ok. Gangster movie yeah yeah, yeah, play a gangster. If
that role that you turned down, you wish you hadn't.
You're like, damn, why did I do that? Yeah? There
was a movie I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
With Holly Berry and Tommy Davidson and I turned it down,
And I wish I wouldn't have turned it down.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
With that in the movie with with Jamie Fox. No,
strictly it was strictly business. Damn damn, Bobby, what dall?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I was on tour at the time, so I was
just like, I'd rather, you know, go out here and
get get this money in, not not tie myself down
at the time.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Have you ever gotten stage fright or forgotten the line?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I've got cut came Bobby, I have,
I have, I think more so more so now I
get a little bubbly in my stomach when I go
on stage.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I think because of the age thing right now. But
back in the days, no, I didn't. I had no
problem with going on stage at any time, or or
doing anything on stage. But now it's just like it's
more so of a job than it being pure pure energy.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
What's your what's your favorite memory of a fair line
between love and hate? My favorite memory of thin line
between love and hate was probably just working alongside Martin.
Martin is just he's he was. He was a great
director the way he directed me, and also just he
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was just a good friend at the time. Right, did
you learn anything you see how Martin was playing too much?
She puts up only two though, oh yes, she damn sure.
Did you start playing with me? You've been to so
you like, obviously Mark did a great job. And you
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say he was a friend. Did you know Mark before
you was on the set? Yes, okay, yeah, we knew
each other.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
He had asked me to be a part of this
film he was gonna do and I was like, you know, anytime, right,
And when he did call, you know, I was like, yeah,
let's go do it. And we was in Los Angeles
filming and it was just a lot of fun. Two
can play that game, Bibica Fox, Boris Chestnut, Gabrielle Eunion, Monique,
Anthony Anderson. How was that experience? That was hilarious. I
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got a chance to wear prosthetics and become two different
I was two different people in the movie. So I
was Big Mike and then I was Big Mike. But
I got the chance to wear the Jerry Curle and
the teeth and the you know, the bumps and all
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kinds of on my face and then I got cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Reality The Real Husband of Hollywood. You it was merely you,
Kevin Hart, Nick and Nick Cannon.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You like reality TV?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I do like reality TV because it's it's it's open.
It's open for like, that's scripted. It's scripted reality, right,
But for the most part, you just have fun with
a bunch of cool cats.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So that's what that was. That was just a lot
of fun to shoot. You did reality with Did you
have another reality show? Right?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I had a reality show with my wife, yes, now,
and I had a past one with my ex wife.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes. So if that what kind of got you?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Because when you had it with your ex wife, is
that kind of what got gave give you gave you
the bug? You got kind of bitten with reality TV?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No, probably your life was a reality bro. I don't
know if you noticed it. I don't know if you
noticed it.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah you did that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Cameras in your house all the time, but they was
following you everywhere. So your life was a reality Bob.
I just want you to know that, Yeah, they they
They basically gave me that that opportunity to to fall
in love with you know, being truthful to myself yes,
and not mind not not mining.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Being open. Right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Do you remember the scenes that you were buying glasses
and you were dancing. You're buying the glasses for your
ass and you were dancing. Well, people annoyed with you
in the store. Huh when you you was dancing. You
remember that scene that you were buying the glasses and
you were dancing. Do you think people got annoyed with you?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I was annoyed after I shot the say and I
was just like, what the hell was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
What was I doing?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
But it was it was fun when we did shoot it.
It was a lot of fun being a part of,
you know something something like that. Of every of people
that have played you, who do you feel has done
the best job of portraying Bobby Brown?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh, hands down. What's his name, Macin? He did the
best job. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I mean the fans with the fans seem to think also,
But you know what I tell you now we're gonna
go back to your own stage.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But what were you thinking? Man? You should do all
kind of stuff on stage? Man?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
What what.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
About it? I mean, do effectual lexo stage?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I mean, come on, Bob, Well, it was just something
to do something to I mean, you could have continue
finger grab to grab some attention and sell more records.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You gotta do. You grab a lot of things, not
a tench did you think? I mean when you did
you have a girlfriend at the time, because was.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
He cool with that?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Was she cool with that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, because it's it was it was acting. I was
an actor at that time. So what did you do
in Georgia to make them arrest you for what you did?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
On?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
All I did was dance? Did a slow dance with
a girl? I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It wasn't no simulating sex or anything like that. It
was just a dance and Georgia, Columbus, Georgia at the time,
Lou Lou performing was not allowed, right because the last
person to get arrested for that was Elvis Elvis Presley. Yeah,
so you had to feel pretty good, like, hell, they
got it, they got Elvis, they got me too, sold
(36:56):
them records though, Yeah, so how did that help your records?
That shot my recon sells through the roof. Everybody wanted
to come see the concert, see what everybody was, what
the hepe with everyone was, where everybody was talking about.
What's your fondest memories of Atlanta? Probably the food, eating
soul food all the time. What's your favorite soul food?
I'm a catfish and grit's type. Okay, brother for breakfast,
(37:20):
I mean you're not eating access Okay, yeah, you're not
eating that all the time, but they are.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, no, no, my wife won't allow me to.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay, you were shoting the leg by your girlfriend's ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How the hell that happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I was at the wrong party at the wrong time.
I just shouldn't have been there, did you really, I
didn't know he was out.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Okay, he was out. Oh he was in a person.
Yeah he was in at first. So how did he
know that? Did she tell him that I'm dating Bobby?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
No, he saw me with her. Oh and she didn't
get your heads up, like you know, I just they
told me to run.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I ran, But oh no, I started booking. I didn't
know I was hitting until till later on. Yeah, but
hold on, when you guys started dating, did she ever
tell you? You know what, Bobby, I used to date
this guy. He might be a little crazy. He inside
right now. And let you know, she didn't tell me
none of that because she told you that, would you
(38:16):
have made a difference, I would have. I would have
chose different. I would have definitely chose different. You asked, like, okay,
when he getting out?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
When he getting out?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Because then I could basical about how much time I
actually got. So what's some of the craziest interactions, Because
I used to hear people tell, did you ever have
a red Mercedes station Wagon? No?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I had a blue Mercedes station Okay blue? Why you
get a station wagon?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Because I had these amps and this booming system in it,
and it was just it was it was just nice
and loud. Normally people get station wagons with kids. This
man get a station wagon to put speakers in it.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I loved that car too. Oh my god, I love
that car. But I did have a son at the time.
You couldn't put it back with speakers because you had
took the back there.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Top of the world. You were one time, you were
one of the biggest artists in the world. Did you
understand who you were? I had a good idea about
it after touring and doing all of the countries that
I basically toured from from Guam to Singapore to.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I mean everywhere.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I went, every everywhere, and to know that people didn't
even speak my language and they could understand my music
and sing along with me.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That was something that that let me know that if
you've made it. What's it like touring overseas.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
I hear a lot of people say, for the very
thing that you said, they don't really speak the language,
but they sing every single word.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
And and if everywhere you go it's fifty thousand, they're lining,
they're chasing the bus, and they're lining the streets just
to get a glimpse, just to take a picture, just
to look at you.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That feels wonderful to know, to be accepted in the
eyes of the public and to be adored by millions
and millions of fans. It's the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You were so big.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You even dated Janet Jackson at one point. Yes, But
how did it make you feel when her dad says
she couldn't date a man like you?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
What do you mean by that? Bops? That's what I
was thinking. That's what I was thinking. What do you
think he meant by that? Because obviously you're in the I.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Was a bad boy. I was the bad boy of
R and B. I don't falter, I don't fault anybody.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Hey, it was what it was for the time that
it was.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Is it true that you almost signed with Tupacs Macabelly. No,
that's not true, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
What about IRV Gotti?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
IRV Gotti was a great friend. Him and jah Ru
had a great time shooting thug Lovin. But that's another
rumor that I was gonna sign with murder In that
was never No. So it seems to me at this
point you're more more want to be independent than be
(41:22):
with a label.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Definitely, what would be correct in saying that? Definitely?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So what's your relationship with ja Ru? He's a good friend, Okay, Yeah,
Why is he so misunderstood?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Job? I don't know Johzu's job. Cool. He's a cool cat.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I don't know why he's misunderstood because he had someone,
he had some of the some of the great hits. Yeah,
he had a lot of hits, Yeah, a lot of hits.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
You mentioned God who recently passed away.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I think he was suffering from diabetes and he ended
up succumbing to that, to that illness. What your people
know about her? He was a special cat man. He
loved he loved music. He loved seeing people successful, right,
he loved that. He loved making sure that you got
your just due, you got paid. I think for the
(42:16):
video Doug Love and I got paid like a million
dollars to shoot it. And the top of that building
coming off that helicopter was the scariest ever in my
life because I'm so afraid of heights right that it
was just like I don't think I can do this,
And the wind was blowing and it was just all
(42:39):
kinds of things going on, and I was just like,
I have to nail this first, this first take. You
don't want to do it again because I don't want
to do it again. So were nailed the first take
and you out.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I was out. What can I culture?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We see herb was battling that what can what can
our culture do to take hypertension, diabetes? Things about our health?
How do we how do we get us to take
things more seriously? We have to eat better, we have
to take better care of our bodies. We have to
read on a lot more on these things that are
(43:17):
bad for us, right, so we got to really take
care of ourselves. I see video you're working out, so
it seems like you're trying to get in get in
front of and getting better, getting better health yourself. Yes,
I am is that? Because I mean, obviously we got
a beautiful wife. You got kids, But how much is that?
(43:38):
I mean, performing and just to be I want to
be in better health. I want to see my grandkids.
I just want to be in better health, right, better shape.
I want to be around for a long time. I'm
healthy now and I want to stay that way. I
want to get more healthy, better health. You had a
great quote, you said, you don't know you're an addict
until it gets worse and worse and worse, and you're
(44:01):
so far down the road.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You didn't realize you were an attic. Not not for
a long time. I think I I just.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
I thought I was still partying, right, But I was.
I was in denial, denial. The project. You grew up
in the Boston projects. You have seven brothers and sisters.
How many bedrooms did that that project?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
That home has five? Man? You living good? We lived,
We lived, We lived, We lived fairly well. Stanley's laughing.
What was a normal day in the in the brown household?
Mom pops seven? Lots of lots of laughter, lots of laughter.
(44:44):
My father was a comedian and my mother used to
just tease them all the time.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
But my father was a hard, hard working construction worker
that worked every day of his life. And Friday night
he gave me mother that check and he go out
and come home Sunday. Damn, work hard, work way through Friday,
(45:11):
get a check, douces, come home Sunday. I don't think
that's going going over well in today's time. No, you
witness your best friend get stabbed at eleven years of age?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yes? What type of psychological impact did that have on
your body?
Speaker 2 (45:32):
It made me made me want to get out of
the projects, okay, It made me want to work hard
at what I believed in, which was entertainment.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
It really made me put the group together and and
and strive to be the best that we could possibly be.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
There was also you had to deal with a lot
of trauma. You saw your friend get stabbed. There was
a situation where you were molested by a priest almost yes,
how did so? Let me ask you a question, how
does one deal with situations like this? How does how
does eleven year old you see your best friend get
staffed and you have the encounter where you're almost lested
(46:16):
by a priest? How does that the psychological deal with that?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Move forward? What impact does that play in one's life?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Makes you not trust a lot. But prayer has always
been a part of my life where God has always
been like right there protecting me from having to go
through the worst of things. Right and even when I
did have to go through the worst of things, just
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being able to talk about it and pray about it,
I think got me through a lot of a lot
of the different situations I've been in having a two
parent household. What did you learn from your parents? Oh,
family is everything? Okay, laughter is a big part of growth,
(47:06):
and just you know, love, how to love, how to
love somebody?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And father? What type of father is Bobby Brown? Ah,
I'm a I'm a yes man. I give my kids everything.
Do you give? Do you try to give your kids
what you didn't have as a child.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
I had basically everything that I wanted as a child.
So giving my kids whatever they want is just just
me just being normal.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I don't let them run all over me. But my
daughter's probably my daughters your wife's sugar hair, Like he
definitely left the run over here. How have you tried
to improve as a father? Because you saw your mom
and dad live in a house and they did they
(48:07):
made sure their kids had and you saw that relationship
you know you said your praying family. You saw you
guys eat together. So how have your parents watching them?
How have that helped you become a better parent? I
think being present, being present in their lives at all
times and not disappearing on them. Right, tell us about
(48:30):
your daughter's charity. Your daughter unfortunately, very tragically passed away
at the age of twenty two. But you established a charity. Yes,
what did this charity? And tell people where they can.
The charity is called the Bobby Christina's Serenity House, and
we are safe haven for domestic violence abused women and
abused children and men. We have partnered up with brupe
(48:57):
View and share House in Atlanta and in Boston, and
these are places that house, you know, women in need for,
you know, to get out of their relationships. We do fundraising.
We do a charity golf tournament every year, and we
(49:19):
do a gala every year. We didn't do the gala
this year because of the fires, right, we felt that
it would be really insensitive of us to try to
raise money for domestic violence at that time. But you
can go to Bobby christina Serenityhouse dot org. Yeah, Bobby
(49:41):
Christina Serenity house dot Org. But I do it because
I've seen I've seen too much of it. My daughter
didn't have to go the way she went. You know,
what the young man did to her is just was unbelievable.
I don't want to see any other families have to
(50:02):
go through what I've went through, or have to bury
a loved one ever again.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
What have you learned about life?
Speaker 2 (50:11):
I learned that life is it's a long road, but
if you stay positive and work hard, life can be
so fulfilling. If you can go back till you're eighteen
and olds your eighteen year old self something. What would
this Bobby Brown till his eighteen year old self, don't
(50:33):
do drugs, don't ever do drugs. Yeah, that would be
my my, my words to my eighteen year old self.
You just experimented with it and just tried it. I
experimented with it and then all of a sudden it
just became a party life, part of my every day life.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Wow, I'm gonna get your get you out of here
on this.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
I saw you dancing. You and your family was dancing
to the video not like us. What do you think
about that song? What do you think about Kendrick's halftime performance.
Did you like the performance? Kendrick's halftime performance was very Uh,
it was interesting to say The Least Not Like Us
is a song that will be remembered for a long
(51:19):
time because of the fact that it won the five Grammys. Yes,
not because of the beef, but because of the five Gramms.
And I don't know if people realize it's a this song. Yeah,
it's like no Vassiline, It's like ether No hit him
Up Tupac. I mean, and it might be if it
could possibly go down in the greatest disc track ever,
(51:40):
it probably will.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You see, he parlayed that and he got an opportunity
to perform at the halftime. Bobby, thanks for stopping by.
Thank you you want to promote support Bobby Brownfoods dot
com and supporting new addition Bobby Brown. Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you. Appreciate you, Bro, Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
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Speaker 4 (52:14):
All My Life and Grinding All my life, Sacrifice, Hustle,
bat the Price one slice got the bronc Geist. Swap
all my life. I'd be grinding all my life, all
my life, and grinding.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
All my life.
Speaker 4 (52:27):
Sacrifice, hustle back the price. One slice got the bronc Geist.
Squat all my life. I've been grinding all my life.
Think you if what you're coming back part two is underway.
Speaker 2 (00:04):
Why do you think it's so hard or so difficult
for groups that break up? I mean, you see some
groups that never broke up, Earth Winding Fire, Ohio Player,
you know, break Barcase, things like that stay together and
they still touring forty fifty years later. But a lot
of times when groups break up, if they ever break up,
they don't get back together.
Speaker 1 (00:23):
Why do you think that is?
Speaker 2 (00:25):
They have no I don't think they pray enough together.
That's the one thing New Addition does. We pray together,
you know, we love each other enough to put up
with each other's you know, and put it to the
(00:47):
side when it's time to put it to the side.
When it's time to work. New Addition will be the
front then, at the front line, ready to do it,
ready to get it on, ready to give the audience
what they deserve.
Speaker 1 (00:59):
And I love that about us.
Speaker 2 (01:02):
Looking back, if Bobby could do anything different, what would
he do different? Oh boy, I wouldn't have spent so
much money so quick. I mean I would, I would.
I wouldn't buy as many cars and leave them on
the side of the road. I would buy cars and
each city that I went in. Like if I saw
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somebody driving down the street in a nice car and
I'm on the tour bus and we're in that town
for the day, Yeah, I would ask the person to
buy if I could buy their car. And then so
you bought the person's car, bought the person's car, and
would leave it at the airport, or leave it at
the side of the road, or leave it at a hotel.
Speaker 1 (01:43):
Damn wrong with you? I don't know. I don't know
what was wrong.
Speaker 2 (01:46):
With So somebody got a car. Somebody got a car, like, oh, oh, well,
it was just a car. But I don't I would
I would not have done that in my right state
of mind. So your financial people like, Bobby, you gotta
stop this. Your mom, your dad, well, like you said,
(02:07):
it was your prerogative, did you. I mean, like, who, Bobby,
you do realize this isn't normal. I understand if you
wanted to buy a car, said man, I really like
this car. I mean I'm gonna get this car, a
ship this car to Boston or ship this car here.
Speaker 1 (02:21):
How do you buy? I wasn't thinking like that. I
was just I was I don't know, I.
Speaker 2 (02:28):
Was I heard this man, this man say he would
literally buy a car, drive it, leave inside the road,
or leave it parked at the airport.
Speaker 1 (02:35):
Yeah, lord, I wouldn't do that. Now, now I know
your wife had gonna go for that, ain't.
Speaker 3 (02:46):
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Speaker 2 (04:17):
Oh I gotta go before you. I'm gonna give you four.
You get four again, just four mount rushmore groups So
you got Jackson five New audition Isisley Brothers, Temptations, Boys,
The Men, Earth Winning Fire four Tops you just named
them all.
Speaker 1 (04:32):
Now you know we got cool in the game.
Speaker 2 (04:34):
SWB Druid Hill Jodasy, Destiny Child, Jagged Ed Tony, Tony Toe, Commodorf,
oj Parliament, the Miracles, Ohio Players, Gladdys Knight, the Pilp
in the Gap band you only get four? Oh man,
I would have to go to the gap Ben Gap Okay,
Charlie Ugle, Charlie, Uncle Charlie. Definitely Jackson's Yep. They gotta
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be up there. They gotta be up there. I would
definitely vote my group up there in new edition, and
last but not least, probably.
Speaker 1 (05:12):
Cooling the Gang.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Okay, I'm sorry, Isley, I'm sorry, Earth Winding Fire. He
ain't put y'all up there, Ohio, Playoffs, Parliament, Oh jays.
Speaker 1 (05:24):
See, that was trickery.
Speaker 2 (05:28):
That was trickery because I couldn't remember all of the
names that he said.
Speaker 1 (05:36):
The Temptation of the Five Harby Did you watch that movie?
I love that movie.
Speaker 2 (05:40):
It is That movie is such a classic of what
groups actually go through. Really, yes, this is a classic
group story. That's what that was my next one. Do
these movies remind you of group experience?
Speaker 1 (05:57):
Yeah? We had some experiences like the fire of our beats.
Speaker 2 (06:01):
Hey, did you ever feel like David Rufford ain't nobody
come and see you own it. I couldn't say that.
How did you become the lead? I've never been the lead.
(06:26):
I think Ralph's always been the lead singer of our group,
and we take pride in having such a great lead
singer like Ralph Tresvent.
Speaker 1 (06:38):
He's smooth, he's he's.
Speaker 2 (06:41):
He was somebody, he's somebody that he's sensitive on stage
and off stage. But this brother I'm talking about, this
brother can mispractice for the whole week, come in and
do the steps better than everybody that is that has
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practiced that whole week. He will have all the dance
steps down, have his whole persona of what he's gonna
do on stage. He knows exactly what to do when
he hits that stage, and that's why we have the best,
best lead singer ever. Do you think there was any
ever any jealousy among bandmates.
Speaker 1 (07:24):
I would hope not. I've never seen any jealousy.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
They've always been supportive of me, and I've always been
supportive of them, and I think that's what kept the
bond with the group so strong. Well, you ain't tell
me why you got voted out. It had to be something,
It had to be something going on. Your wife would
not shaking her hands now, yeh, sum had to be
going on.
Speaker 1 (07:49):
Hey, they booted you out the group. I was too wild.
I was too wild, but you.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
Would, hey you Okay, maybe you missed meeting, I mean
the private rehearsals.
Speaker 1 (08:00):
Probably miss rehearsals. I probably missed shows.
Speaker 2 (08:03):
You miss shown I miss shows. I missed everything. Oh,
I wouldn't miss I wouldn't miss everything. I would, you know, Damn, Bobby,
I'm trying to get you some grades. I was like, okay,
maybe he's a little late, not a rehearsal, maybe he missed,
you know, a little functionary was supposed to be.
Speaker 1 (08:19):
How you missed the whole show?
Speaker 2 (08:22):
Do you do realize like the people that say attendants
like damn new addition, Well, Bobby, yeah, that's what would
normally happened, Riz, Bobby, I don't miss shows now. I
don't miss shows now, and you unless I'm not well right,
let me ask you this. You go solo, what do
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you think's the what's the worst and the best part
of a solo career? Or if there is such a
worst part of a solo career, there's really no no
downside to being a solo artist. I think you you
once you take control of your career. Once I took
control of my career, it was all upsides.
Speaker 1 (09:05):
You know.
Speaker 2 (09:06):
The music got better, the money got better. Not having
to split Yeah, your money, you split the five way
I got it off. Yes, So there's no downside to that.
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How hard, because, like you said, you wanted to kind
of get away from kind of like the bubble gum.
So how hard was it for you to reinvent yourself
as an adult because for the most part, people had
only seen you in that group, and they had only
seen you doing Candy Rain and they only had seen
you do it mister telephone man, so that's all they
knew you from. So how difficult was it for you
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to reinvent yourself to be taken seriously as an adult artist.
It wasn't that difficult once I once I got to
try it up issue and I started to really see
the crowd reacting to what I was doing. It just
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made me feel stronger. And what I was what I
was doing when I was about you saw the crowd
react like that in the back of your mind as
you're performing, I made the right decision.
Speaker 1 (10:22):
This is what I'm supposed to do. That's exactly what happened.
Speaker 2 (10:29):
That it got into the back of my head that
if I didn't do this, I don't think I would
have I don't think that we would be still successful
if I hadn't went solo. If I hadn't, you know,
gotten put out the group and had to, you know,
find for myself.
Speaker 1 (10:49):
You do realize it's not often.
Speaker 2 (10:51):
You go solo boom, blow up Bill Bill Devout go
solo boom, blow up, raw boom, that it doesn't happen
like that normally. You get LTD, you get Jeffrey Osborne.
He does what he does, You get the Commodoors, you
get Litel Richie, he goes off, does what he does.
You get Harold melan in the Blue Notes, you get
Teddy Pindigrads. He goes and do it what he does.
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But all the members were standalones. Once they had to
stand alone. You realize how unique that is, Bobby, did
you ever think about that, like, damn we had It's
like having Patrick Mahomes, Tom Brady and Peyton Manning.
Speaker 1 (11:28):
Damn that's what you had.
Speaker 2 (11:30):
Yeah, New addition, that's what New Addition stands for. It
stands for, you know, we are the supergroup that that
did the impossible. Yes, I can't think about the top
of my head that I'm looking at all these groups
that I named. I don't think when you go back
and look at him obviously en sync with you know, JT.
(11:51):
But when you go back and look at it, I
don't know if they had the success like individuals like
you guys had.
Speaker 1 (11:59):
No one has done it.
Speaker 2 (12:00):
Wow, that's the great thing about new addition. No one
has done what they have what we have accomplished. How
difficult is it to be a star. When you talk
about being a star, what.
Speaker 1 (12:15):
Do you mean? I mean the line being in the
lime light?
Speaker 2 (12:20):
Being being in the limelight? Okay, you got it. Obviously
you got to produce in the area of what you're in.
So you're a singer, you got to be able to
come out with hit records. You're an entertainer also, you
gotta be able to entertain because some people I feel
that they're better entertainers than singers, and some people I
feel they can sing better than they can entertain.
Speaker 1 (12:38):
But you were both.
Speaker 2 (12:39):
You had to be both, and you had to be
lights out every single night that you hit the stage.
The pressure to keep coming out with these hit songs,
the pressure to perform at the highest level.
Speaker 1 (12:50):
You can't have enough. You can't have an off night, Bobby. Now,
you can't by yourself. You can't. You can't. I think.
Speaker 2 (12:56):
I think that's why I say work on your craft,
always practice on your craft. Always always be be mean
to yourself when it's time to rehearse, when it's time
to to get out there and do it, when it's
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time to get in front of people, and be nice
to people. I've never said no to an autograph from
a fan, never ever. So you enjoyed the meet and greets.
I enjoy the meet and greets. I enjoy being recognized.
I enjoy every every, every part of it. Because it's
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it's it's uh, who who pays my bills? They pay
my bills, Damn Boddy. What about when you're going to
sneak tip and you ain't want to be recognized, what
it is they recognize you? You have to you have
to go ahead and do it and say to make
sure they don't blow the cover. Right, let me ask
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you this. Obviously, the cars were some of the worst purchases.
They probably wouldn't have been bad had you not left them. Yeah,
So what are some of the worst purchases, because now
you got you got this money. I mean, you're making
more money than you ever thought, Bobby, those were probably
my worst purchases. And the house in Atlanta, Georgia. I
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bought this big in Alpharetta, about this big mansion from
I believe the porn king or the.
Speaker 1 (14:40):
Once it was.
Speaker 2 (14:41):
Owned by the porn king, and then it was owned
by the waterbed King, and then I bought it. And
it was just the worst, the worst money I've ever spent.
That bought the house, put like two million dollars into
the house, and then did not live in the house.
What just left it in my family, And it was
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probably the worst purchase I ever purchased. You mentioned earlier
that you gave a lot of your money away. You
gave a lot of money to your family. You gave
a lot of money to friends before you realize. When
did you realize that?
Speaker 1 (15:18):
You know what?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
They're my family, they're my friends, but they taking advantage
of me. How far down the road were you before you?
I was all the way down the road, all the
way all the way in. You know, I don't regret it.
You don't know, I don't regret it. You know what
I've been through in my life, I think we're all
(15:43):
learning lessons, learning teaching moments that got me to the
place that I am. Now, what would you do different
in that situation? You got to say, I will place
you back, you know what you know now? And fifty
six I'm gonna play issue back in that situation? What
would you do different? I would put my family on allowances, Okay,
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not unlimited budgets, huh. Not unlimited budgets. No, I wouldn't
just buy frivolously frivolous things, you know from you know,
spoil him, and I would just I would, I would.
I would take care of myself a little bit better.
Speaker 4 (16:26):
You know.
Speaker 2 (16:28):
I've been through so much, you know, as far as
you know, from drugs to alcohol to to just just
not taking care of myself, and I think I would
just take care of myself a lot better.
Speaker 1 (16:45):
Is it true?
Speaker 2 (16:45):
You once bought a store for a woman because her
boss mistreated her. Yes, and she owned the store and
then she had the bass start working with her.
Speaker 1 (16:54):
Yes. What made you do that?
Speaker 2 (16:58):
I saw how he was treating her, and I didn't
like it, and it was just a way of of
me telling, telling myself, I could change I could change
a person's life with just one check, one check, and
that one check. That lady owned that place for I
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don't know how long, and she had the boss working
working for her.
Speaker 1 (17:28):
Maybe she had him treated him, maybe she treated him her. Yes,
I hope so, I hope she fired him later on.
Speaker 2 (17:38):
Hold on, it says you spent a million. You spend
a million dollars in one day.
Speaker 1 (17:43):
And one day?
Speaker 3 (17:44):
What the hell you buy?
Speaker 2 (17:46):
I bought three watches, two cars, and a house. You
didn't want to space it out? And I'm a buy
a house this week? No, okay, I get to watch.
Speaker 1 (17:57):
The thing was? The thing was I wanted to spend
a million dollars in one day. I mean, just for
the hell of it.
Speaker 2 (18:07):
Where where somebody, if you spend a million dollars in
the day, where you're gonna be like Brewster's million, all
of a sudden, get ten million at the end of
that day, if you spend a million. Wasn't No, I
wish that was. I wish that was the case. Though,
I wish that was the case. I mean, Bobby, did
you do I mean, as you said, clearly you didn't
think it was as It was ridiculous then, But as
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you sit back here now thirty years later, do you
realize how ridiculous that was?
Speaker 1 (18:34):
Yeah? I do, I do, I do. That's why I'm
glad I got such a beautiful wife that won't allow
me to do that no more. Well, you told her
that story, did she punch you? How many times? That? Just?
Speaker 2 (18:46):
What to?
Speaker 4 (18:46):
No?
Speaker 2 (18:50):
Cause she said she's money we could have had. She
just laughed it off and said, you know, we gotta work, then, Yes,
gotta work.
Speaker 1 (18:58):
Got to keep it up.
Speaker 2 (18:59):
What have you learned about money? It's not to be
taken advantage of. It's about knowing when, knowing when to
how they say, knowing when to hold them, knowing when
to fold them, when when to walk away. Yeah, that's
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what That's what I think about money.
Speaker 1 (19:24):
Now.
Speaker 2 (19:27):
Someone that's coming into money now in this industry or
any industry, and they came to Bobby, what's some of
the advice you would give them?
Speaker 1 (19:34):
Save invest?
Speaker 2 (19:38):
You can't you can't go wrong with owning pieces of
property because they're not making anymore. True, So I would
tell them to invest and buy lots of land. We
talked earlier. You're in the food service business, do you
wish you had invested more earlier. Yes, definitely wish that
(20:00):
I knew what I I wish I knew what I knew. No,
now you know, I wish I met my wife a
lot earlier. Right, Yeah, that's what I wish. Do you
ever look back at like, damn, I blew a lot
(20:22):
of effing money on bullge eve?
Speaker 1 (20:24):
Yeah. Yes, if I could switch that around, I'll be
the cheapest mother.
Speaker 2 (20:33):
But ask your question, though, if you could switch it around,
let's just say, for the sake of argument, Obviously you're
gonna have a nice lifestyle. You're gonna have you a
nice home, You're gonna have a nice couple of cars.
You have kids you're gonna take care of. But let's
just say, for the sake of argument, we switched that around,
and now you're worth it ten, twenty, fifteen, twenty times
what it is.
Speaker 1 (20:51):
Now? Are you with the group? Am I with the group? Yeah?
Are you toured with the group?
Speaker 2 (20:55):
Let's just say, for the sake of arment, body now yet,
Bobby work you wanted to Bobby's worth two hundred and
fifty a.
Speaker 1 (21:01):
Quarter of a billion dollars.
Speaker 2 (21:02):
I'm still tolling with no addition, I say no, you're not.
No the why said she on the yacht? Yeah she
can be on a yacht. But that's just something about
touring with them.
Speaker 1 (21:23):
What is it?
Speaker 2 (21:23):
What is it about there with the it's the brotherhoods
with your brother camaraderie and the screaming Yeah, because a
lot of it, damn there. I guarantee you seventy five,
eighty five, maybe even ninety percent of the people that's
in the audience that grew up listening to you guys.
Now you have new fans, but you have you have
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a base, a base, the any for lifers, a group
of people that I mean, we.
Speaker 1 (21:54):
We cherished them.
Speaker 2 (21:55):
We cherished them because they are they are die hard fans,
you know, and they know us a lot better than
we know ourselves. And it's just beautiful to see their
faces when we go out there and see all of
the familiar faces that we've seen over the years, over
the years, over the years, they grew up with us.
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Did you own a music studio in Atlanta? Yes, Serey
three thousand and Big Boy recorded the song Yeah they
bought this yes, wow?
Speaker 1 (22:27):
Yeah? What made you What made you decide to own
a studio? Not wanting to spend my budget on other
people's studios.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
Oh yeah, you're making somebody else rich. I was making
somebody else rich by recording in their studio. So I
bought a studio to record my own albums. And then
you let other people come in there and Atlanta and
you got rich out deal.
Speaker 1 (22:48):
Yeah. So what are some of the artists that came
through your studio? Of course you know.
Speaker 2 (22:59):
People Rice and used to come there. Yeah, out cast,
a lot of the the young entertainers from Atlanta.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
Is it still is it still folks in the studio today?
Speaker 2 (23:14):
Yes it is, but it's called stink Okay, but they
still on it.
Speaker 1 (23:20):
Yeah, they still own it. Wow.
Speaker 2 (23:22):
You had a friend that was failely shocked. He was
sitting in your billy. Do you remember that moment?
Speaker 1 (23:26):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (23:28):
So what happened to mistaken identity? No, they wanted him,
they wanted him dead. I don't know why.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
I don't I don't know the jest of how what happened,
but I just know that it was just.
Speaker 2 (23:47):
You were in your hometown. You were you were back
home right Boston, Massachusetts. Yes, I'll never forget that moment.
Speaker 1 (23:56):
Never.
Speaker 2 (23:58):
One hundred and seventy eight bullets was in car one
hundred and seventy eight damn, and I didn't get scratched once.
Hold on, they fired one hundred and seventy eight rounds
into a car and not one bullet touched you.
Speaker 1 (24:14):
Not one bullet.
Speaker 2 (24:19):
That's how I know I got somebody watching over me. Yeah,
there are a lot of your mom and your dad,
a lot of people. Yeah for you, Bobby, that's unheard of.
Speaker 1 (24:31):
Wow. Did you.
Speaker 2 (24:35):
How did that moment change? Did you like, did you
realize how fortunately you work? Do you realize like that
has to be a god?
Speaker 1 (24:42):
Oh?
Speaker 2 (24:43):
Yeah, oh yeah. And it also taught me that going
back home sometimes ain't always with ain't where you need to.
Speaker 1 (24:55):
Be because everybody's not happy for your success.
Speaker 2 (24:57):
Bobby, Right, even though you're from a small town, I
mean they saw you, I mean, and the other the
way I look at it, Bobby, if we're from the
same from all town, you had the same opportunity I had.
Speaker 1 (25:06):
I mean sometimes it's a little different.
Speaker 2 (25:07):
I mean I grew up with you know, my grandmother
raised me, but I for the most part, went to
the same high school, pretty much did the same thing.
Speaker 1 (25:14):
So we all had an opportunity.
Speaker 2 (25:15):
Maybe it wasn't music maybe it was sports, Maybe it
was you could have been a lawyer, maybe you'd been
a doctor, but you had an opportunity. What is it
that you think that makes someone resempful of someone else's success.
Speaker 1 (25:27):
Uh, I don't know.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
You know, they believe that they should have it, should
have been them in some some form of fashion, But
I don't.
Speaker 1 (25:44):
I don't know. It just it's mind boggling that.
Speaker 2 (25:49):
People tend to get jealous of someone else's success, right,
when you should just bust your ass and work, work
hard to be your own successful being.
Speaker 1 (26:02):
Right. You had Donald Trump in your music video on
Our Own in nineteen eighty eight.
Speaker 2 (26:07):
Yeah, I did not know Donald Trump at that time.
The company, the record label had that, Okay, they did it. Yeah,
he was just a popular person, yes, in New York City.
And it was about the Ghostbusters. So Donald was in
(26:29):
the video. Did you think Donald Did you think almost
thirty five years later he would be President of the
United States?
Speaker 1 (26:38):
Hell?
Speaker 2 (26:38):
No, Hell no, that's crazy, right, it is it is acting. Yes,
What made you want to do do that? Uh, it's
a form of entertainment that I feel passionate about, like
doing the different doing doing the different movies that I've done.
(27:04):
Just working with the different comedians and the different actors.
I had so much fun, really had so much fun,
And it was like those long days. It's a hurry
up and wait situation. Yes, it's a hurry up and wait.
You hurry up to wait for you to shoot five
(27:26):
minutes of film, but you wait four hours, five hours,
six hours, ten hours. Yes, you out there. You might
be on the SAT twelve hours and actually work five
minutes five minutes, as long as they're paying for them
twelve hours.
Speaker 1 (27:46):
I'm good. I'm good.
Speaker 2 (27:50):
I'm looking at some of the actresses and actors you
work with, Angela Bassett, Lynn Winfield, Regina King, Chris Tucker,
Chris Rock, Jennifer Lewis, did Gregoraro Kim.
Speaker 1 (27:58):
What's some of the best advice that you go a
while I'm set, pay attention to pay attention to.
Speaker 2 (28:09):
What the director wants from the scene, pay attention to
the script, and if they want you to go off script,
let you add lib a little bit, which Martin allowed
me to do in Thin Line between Love and Hate.
Speaker 1 (28:31):
It was fun.
Speaker 2 (28:31):
It was a lot of fun shooting this different scenes
that we shot. There was one scene where Martin wasn't there,
and it was basically me directing the scene. And it's
the scene where I'm in the club and I'm asking
the the girls, you know, we need some dancers, you know,
(28:52):
to fill up the club. So Martin wasn't there that day,
so they allowed me to just they allowed me to
you know, block that and do that scene myself. And
that was a lot of fun. Do you wish you
had done more of it? I still want to do acting? Yeah, yeah,
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definitely what.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
You're looking to what what what's the type of role
bodies looking to get into?
Speaker 2 (29:18):
Uh No, romantic roles? Wife, they're going for that. Huh no, wife,
he ain't going for that way. So no more, No
more romantic comedies. Yeah, shoot them up movies. I like
(29:41):
shoot them up?
Speaker 1 (29:41):
Ok. Gangster movie yeah yeah, yeah, play a gangster. If
that role that you turned down, you wish you hadn't.
You're like, damn, why did I do that? Yeah? There
was a movie I was gonna do.
Speaker 2 (29:58):
With Holly Berry and Tommy Davidson and I turned it down,
And I wish I wouldn't have turned it down.
Speaker 1 (30:07):
With that in the movie with with Jamie Fox. No,
strictly it was strictly business. Damn damn, Bobby, what dall?
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (30:19):
I was on tour at the time, so I was
just like, I'd rather, you know, go out here and
get get this money in, not not tie myself down
at the time.
Speaker 1 (30:30):
Have you ever gotten stage fright or forgotten the line?
Speaker 5 (30:33):
Yes, yeah, yeah, I've got cut came Bobby, I have,
I have, I think more so more so now I
get a little bubbly in my stomach when I go
on stage.
Speaker 1 (30:52):
I think because of the age thing right now. But
back in the days, no, I didn't. I had no
problem with going on stage at any time, or or
doing anything on stage. But now it's just like it's
more so of a job than it being pure pure energy.
Speaker 2 (31:17):
What's your what's your favorite memory of a fair line
between love and hate? My favorite memory of thin line
between love and hate was probably just working alongside Martin.
Martin is just he's he was. He was a great
director the way he directed me, and also just he
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was just a good friend at the time. Right, did
you learn anything you see how Martin was playing too much?
She puts up only two though, oh yes, she damn sure.
Did you start playing with me? You've been to so
you like, obviously Mark did a great job. And you
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say he was a friend. Did you know Mark before
you was on the set? Yes, okay, yeah, we knew
each other.
Speaker 1 (32:08):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (32:09):
He had asked me to be a part of this
film he was gonna do and I was like, you know, anytime, right,
And when he did call, you know, I was like, yeah,
let's go do it. And we was in Los Angeles
filming and it was just a lot of fun. Two
can play that game, Bibica Fox, Boris Chestnut, Gabrielle Eunion, Monique,
Anthony Anderson. How was that experience? That was hilarious. I
(32:33):
got a chance to wear prosthetics and become two different
I was two different people in the movie. So I
was Big Mike and then I was Big Mike. But
I got the chance to wear the Jerry Curle and
the teeth and the you know, the bumps and all
(32:56):
kinds of on my face and then I got cleaned up.
Speaker 1 (33:01):
So that was a lot of fun.
Speaker 2 (33:04):
Reality The Real Husband of Hollywood. You it was merely you,
Kevin Hart, Nick and Nick Cannon.
Speaker 4 (33:10):
Hm.
Speaker 1 (33:11):
You like reality TV?
Speaker 2 (33:13):
I do like reality TV because it's it's it's open.
It's open for like, that's scripted. It's scripted reality, right,
But for the most part, you just have fun with
a bunch of cool cats.
Speaker 1 (33:34):
So that's what that was. That was just a lot
of fun to shoot. You did reality with Did you
have another reality show? Right?
Speaker 2 (33:42):
I had a reality show with my wife, yes, now,
and I had a past one with my ex wife.
Speaker 1 (33:50):
Yes. So if that what kind of got you?
Speaker 2 (33:51):
Because when you had it with your ex wife, is
that kind of what got gave give you gave you
the bug? You got kind of bitten with reality TV?
Speaker 1 (33:58):
Well?
Speaker 2 (33:58):
No, probably your life was a reality bro. I don't
know if you noticed it. I don't know if you
noticed it.
Speaker 1 (34:04):
Yeah you did that.
Speaker 2 (34:05):
Cameras in your house all the time, but they was
following you everywhere. So your life was a reality Bob.
I just want you to know that, Yeah, they they
They basically gave me that that opportunity to to fall
in love with you know, being truthful to myself yes,
and not mind not not mining.
Speaker 1 (34:31):
Being open. Right.
Speaker 2 (34:33):
Do you remember the scenes that you were buying glasses
and you were dancing. You're buying the glasses for your
ass and you were dancing. Well, people annoyed with you
in the store. Huh when you you was dancing. You
remember that scene that you were buying the glasses and
you were dancing. Do you think people got annoyed with you?
Speaker 1 (34:47):
I don't know.
Speaker 2 (34:48):
I was annoyed after I shot the say and I
was just like, what the hell was I thinking?
Speaker 1 (34:54):
What was I doing?
Speaker 2 (34:57):
But it was it was fun when we did shoot it.
It was a lot of fun being a part of,
you know something something like that. Of every of people
that have played you, who do you feel has done
the best job of portraying Bobby Brown?
Speaker 1 (35:11):
Oh, hands down. What's his name, Macin? He did the
best job. Yeah, definitely.
Speaker 2 (35:24):
I mean the fans with the fans seem to think also,
But you know what I tell you now we're gonna
go back to your own stage.
Speaker 1 (35:30):
But what were you thinking? Man? You should do all
kind of stuff on stage? Man?
Speaker 4 (35:35):
What what.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
About it? I mean, do effectual lexo stage?
Speaker 2 (35:44):
I mean, come on, Bob, Well, it was just something
to do something to I mean, you could have continue
finger grab to grab some attention and sell more records.
Speaker 1 (35:56):
You gotta do. You grab a lot of things, not
a tench did you think? I mean when you did
you have a girlfriend at the time, because was.
Speaker 2 (36:11):
He cool with that?
Speaker 1 (36:12):
Probably?
Speaker 2 (36:12):
Was she cool with that? Yeah?
Speaker 1 (36:15):
Yeah, because it's it was it was acting. I was
an actor at that time. So what did you do
in Georgia to make them arrest you for what you did?
Speaker 4 (36:28):
On?
Speaker 1 (36:29):
All I did was dance? Did a slow dance with
a girl? I didn't. I didn't.
Speaker 2 (36:34):
It wasn't no simulating sex or anything like that. It
was just a dance and Georgia, Columbus, Georgia at the time,
Lou Lou performing was not allowed, right because the last
person to get arrested for that was Elvis Elvis Presley. Yeah,
so you had to feel pretty good, like, hell, they
got it, they got Elvis, they got me too, sold
(36:56):
them records though, Yeah, so how did that help your records?
That shot my recon sells through the roof. Everybody wanted
to come see the concert, see what everybody was, what
the hepe with everyone was, where everybody was talking about.
What's your fondest memories of Atlanta? Probably the food, eating
soul food all the time. What's your favorite soul food?
I'm a catfish and grit's type. Okay, brother for breakfast,
(37:20):
I mean you're not eating access Okay, yeah, you're not
eating that all the time, but they are.
Speaker 1 (37:24):
No, no, no, my wife won't allow me to.
Speaker 2 (37:28):
Okay, you were shoting the leg by your girlfriend's ex boyfriend.
Speaker 1 (37:33):
How the hell that happened? I don't know.
Speaker 2 (37:35):
I was at the wrong party at the wrong time.
I just shouldn't have been there, did you really, I
didn't know he was out.
Speaker 1 (37:42):
Okay, he was out. Oh he was in a person.
Yeah he was in at first. So how did he
know that? Did she tell him that I'm dating Bobby?
Speaker 4 (37:49):
No?
Speaker 1 (37:50):
No, he saw me with her. Oh and she didn't
get your heads up, like you know, I just they
told me to run.
Speaker 2 (37:56):
I ran, But oh no, I started booking. I didn't
know I was hitting until till later on. Yeah, but
hold on, when you guys started dating, did she ever
tell you? You know what, Bobby, I used to date
this guy. He might be a little crazy. He inside
right now. And let you know, she didn't tell me
none of that because she told you that, would you
(38:16):
have made a difference, I would have. I would have
chose different. I would have definitely chose different. You asked, like, okay,
when he getting out?
Speaker 1 (38:23):
When he getting out?
Speaker 2 (38:24):
Because then I could basical about how much time I
actually got. So what's some of the craziest interactions, Because
I used to hear people tell, did you ever have
a red Mercedes station Wagon? No?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I had a blue Mercedes station Okay blue? Why you
get a station wagon?
Speaker 2 (38:44):
Because I had these amps and this booming system in it,
and it was just it was it was just nice
and loud. Normally people get station wagons with kids. This
man get a station wagon to put speakers in it.
Speaker 5 (39:00):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:01):
I loved that car too. Oh my god, I love
that car. But I did have a son at the time.
You couldn't put it back with speakers because you had
took the back there.
Speaker 1 (39:11):
Yeah, you're right.
Speaker 2 (39:16):
Top of the world. You were one time, you were
one of the biggest artists in the world. Did you
understand who you were? I had a good idea about
it after touring and doing all of the countries that
I basically toured from from Guam to Singapore to.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
I mean everywhere.
Speaker 2 (39:37):
I went, every everywhere, and to know that people didn't
even speak my language and they could understand my music
and sing along with me.
Speaker 1 (39:45):
That was something that that let me know that if
you've made it. What's it like touring overseas.
Speaker 2 (39:51):
I hear a lot of people say, for the very
thing that you said, they don't really speak the language,
but they sing every single word.
Speaker 1 (39:58):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (39:59):
And and if everywhere you go it's fifty thousand, they're lining,
they're chasing the bus, and they're lining the streets just
to get a glimpse, just to take a picture, just
to look at you.
Speaker 1 (40:09):
What does that feel like?
Speaker 2 (40:11):
That feels wonderful to know, to be accepted in the
eyes of the public and to be adored by millions
and millions of fans. It's the best feeling in the world.
Speaker 1 (40:25):
You were so big.
Speaker 2 (40:25):
You even dated Janet Jackson at one point. Yes, But
how did it make you feel when her dad says
she couldn't date a man like you?
Speaker 1 (40:33):
What do you mean by that? Bops? That's what I
was thinking. That's what I was thinking. What do you
think he meant by that? Because obviously you're in the I.
Speaker 2 (40:42):
Was a bad boy. I was the bad boy of
R and B. I don't falter, I don't fault anybody.
Speaker 1 (40:48):
Hey, it was what it was for the time that
it was.
Speaker 2 (40:53):
Is it true that you almost signed with Tupacs Macabelly. No,
that's not true, that's not true.
Speaker 1 (41:00):
What about IRV Gotti?
Speaker 2 (41:01):
IRV Gotti was a great friend. Him and jah Ru
had a great time shooting thug Lovin. But that's another
rumor that I was gonna sign with murder In that
was never No. So it seems to me at this
point you're more more want to be independent than be
(41:22):
with a label.
Speaker 1 (41:23):
Definitely, what would be correct in saying that? Definitely?
Speaker 2 (41:26):
So what's your relationship with ja Ru? He's a good friend, Okay, Yeah,
Why is he so misunderstood?
Speaker 1 (41:34):
Job? I don't know Johzu's job. Cool. He's a cool cat.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
I don't know why he's misunderstood because he had someone,
he had some of the some of the great hits. Yeah,
he had a lot of hits, Yeah, a lot of hits.
Speaker 1 (41:52):
You mentioned God who recently passed away.
Speaker 2 (41:55):
I think he was suffering from diabetes and he ended
up succumbing to that, to that illness. What your people
know about her? He was a special cat man. He
loved he loved music. He loved seeing people successful, right,
he loved that. He loved making sure that you got
your just due, you got paid. I think for the
(42:16):
video Doug Love and I got paid like a million
dollars to shoot it. And the top of that building
coming off that helicopter was the scariest ever in my
life because I'm so afraid of heights right that it
was just like I don't think I can do this,
And the wind was blowing and it was just all
(42:39):
kinds of things going on, and I was just like,
I have to nail this first, this first take. You
don't want to do it again because I don't want
to do it again. So were nailed the first take
and you out.
Speaker 1 (42:52):
I was out. What can I culture?
Speaker 2 (42:54):
We see herb was battling that what can what can
our culture do to take hypertension, diabetes? Things about our health?
How do we how do we get us to take
things more seriously? We have to eat better, we have
to take better care of our bodies. We have to
read on a lot more on these things that are
(43:17):
bad for us, right, so we got to really take
care of ourselves. I see video you're working out, so
it seems like you're trying to get in get in
front of and getting better, getting better health yourself. Yes,
I am is that? Because I mean, obviously we got
a beautiful wife. You got kids, But how much is that?
(43:38):
I mean, performing and just to be I want to
be in better health. I want to see my grandkids.
I just want to be in better health, right, better shape.
I want to be around for a long time. I'm
healthy now and I want to stay that way. I
want to get more healthy, better health. You had a
great quote, you said, you don't know you're an addict
until it gets worse and worse and worse, and you're
(44:01):
so far down the road.
Speaker 1 (44:04):
You didn't realize you were an attic. Not not for
a long time. I think I I just.
Speaker 2 (44:11):
I thought I was still partying, right, But I was.
I was in denial, denial. The project. You grew up
in the Boston projects. You have seven brothers and sisters.
How many bedrooms did that that project?
Speaker 1 (44:24):
That home has five? Man? You living good? We lived,
We lived, We lived, We lived fairly well. Stanley's laughing.
What was a normal day in the in the brown household?
Mom pops seven? Lots of lots of laughter, lots of laughter.
(44:44):
My father was a comedian and my mother used to
just tease them all the time.
Speaker 2 (44:49):
But my father was a hard, hard working construction worker
that worked every day of his life. And Friday night
he gave me mother that check and he go out
and come home Sunday. Damn, work hard, work way through Friday,
(45:11):
get a check, douces, come home Sunday. I don't think
that's going going over well in today's time. No, you
witness your best friend get stabbed at eleven years of age?
Speaker 1 (45:27):
Yes? What type of psychological impact did that have on
your body?
Speaker 2 (45:32):
It made me made me want to get out of
the projects, okay, It made me want to work hard
at what I believed in, which was entertainment.
Speaker 1 (45:44):
It really made me put the group together and and
and strive to be the best that we could possibly be.
Speaker 2 (45:54):
There was also you had to deal with a lot
of trauma. You saw your friend get stabbed. There was
a situation where you were molested by a priest almost yes,
how did so? Let me ask you a question, how
does one deal with situations like this? How does how
does eleven year old you see your best friend get
staffed and you have the encounter where you're almost lested
(46:16):
by a priest? How does that the psychological deal with that?
Speaker 1 (46:22):
Move forward? What impact does that play in one's life?
Speaker 2 (46:25):
Makes you not trust a lot. But prayer has always
been a part of my life where God has always
been like right there protecting me from having to go
through the worst of things. Right and even when I
did have to go through the worst of things, just
(46:45):
being able to talk about it and pray about it,
I think got me through a lot of a lot
of the different situations I've been in having a two
parent household. What did you learn from your parents? Oh,
family is everything? Okay, laughter is a big part of growth,
(47:06):
and just you know, love, how to love, how to
love somebody?
Speaker 1 (47:12):
And father? What type of father is Bobby Brown? Ah,
I'm a I'm a yes man. I give my kids everything.
Do you give? Do you try to give your kids
what you didn't have as a child.
Speaker 2 (47:33):
I had basically everything that I wanted as a child.
So giving my kids whatever they want is just just
me just being normal.
Speaker 1 (47:45):
You know.
Speaker 2 (47:47):
I don't let them run all over me. But my
daughter's probably my daughters your wife's sugar hair, Like he
definitely left the run over here. How have you tried
to improve as a father? Because you saw your mom
and dad live in a house and they did they
(48:07):
made sure their kids had and you saw that relationship
you know you said your praying family. You saw you
guys eat together. So how have your parents watching them?
How have that helped you become a better parent? I
think being present, being present in their lives at all
times and not disappearing on them. Right, tell us about
(48:30):
your daughter's charity. Your daughter unfortunately, very tragically passed away
at the age of twenty two. But you established a charity. Yes,
what did this charity? And tell people where they can.
The charity is called the Bobby Christina's Serenity House, and
we are safe haven for domestic violence abused women and
abused children and men. We have partnered up with brupe
(48:57):
View and share House in Atlanta and in Boston, and
these are places that house, you know, women in need for,
you know, to get out of their relationships. We do fundraising.
We do a charity golf tournament every year, and we
(49:19):
do a gala every year. We didn't do the gala
this year because of the fires, right, we felt that
it would be really insensitive of us to try to
raise money for domestic violence at that time. But you
can go to Bobby christina Serenityhouse dot org. Yeah, Bobby
(49:41):
Christina Serenity house dot Org. But I do it because
I've seen I've seen too much of it. My daughter
didn't have to go the way she went. You know,
what the young man did to her is just was unbelievable.
I don't want to see any other families have to
(50:02):
go through what I've went through, or have to bury
a loved one ever again.
Speaker 1 (50:09):
What have you learned about life?
Speaker 2 (50:11):
I learned that life is it's a long road, but
if you stay positive and work hard, life can be
so fulfilling. If you can go back till you're eighteen
and olds your eighteen year old self something. What would
this Bobby Brown till his eighteen year old self, don't
(50:33):
do drugs, don't ever do drugs. Yeah, that would be
my my, my words to my eighteen year old self.
You just experimented with it and just tried it. I
experimented with it and then all of a sudden it
just became a party life, part of my every day life.
Speaker 1 (50:53):
Wow, I'm gonna get your get you out of here
on this.
Speaker 2 (50:56):
I saw you dancing. You and your family was dancing
to the video not like us. What do you think
about that song? What do you think about Kendrick's halftime performance.
Did you like the performance? Kendrick's halftime performance was very Uh,
it was interesting to say The Least Not Like Us
is a song that will be remembered for a long
(51:19):
time because of the fact that it won the five Grammys. Yes,
not because of the beef, but because of the five Gramms.
And I don't know if people realize it's a this song. Yeah,
it's like no Vassiline, It's like ether No hit him
Up Tupac. I mean, and it might be if it
could possibly go down in the greatest disc track ever,
(51:40):
it probably will.
Speaker 1 (51:42):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (51:42):
You see, he parlayed that and he got an opportunity
to perform at the halftime. Bobby, thanks for stopping by.
Thank you you want to promote support Bobby Brownfoods dot
com and supporting new addition Bobby Brown. Ladies and gentlemen,
Thank you. Appreciate you, Bro, Appreciate you, brother.
Speaker 1 (52:02):
Thank you.
Speaker 2 (52:02):
Elise Go Underground Resource World, Las Vegas for allowing Club
Shape Shape to film this very special episode here today.
Keep up with the Least Go Underground on social media
at Resource World LV.
Speaker 4 (52:14):
All My Life and Grinding All my life, Sacrifice, Hustle,
bat the Price one slice got the bronc Geist. Swap
all my life. I'd be grinding all my life, all
my life, and grinding.
Speaker 3 (52:26):
All my life.
Speaker 4 (52:27):
Sacrifice, hustle back the price. One slice got the bronc Geist.
Squat all my life. I've been grinding all my life.
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