Bobby Brown appeared on the Hotboxin’ with Mike Tyson podcast to discuss everything concerning the singer’s career, including his documentary Bobby Brown: Every Little Step. During the podcast, Brown mentioned that he wanted to be a solo act even before New Edition was formed. The group’s bad boy also revealed he was over New Edition’s goody-two-shoes image.
Former boxer Mike Tyson began talking about how he first met Brown while training for a fight at 19 and New Edition was performing at a college. Co-host Matt Barnes asked Brown what the dynamic was like being a part of a group and then excelling as a solo artist.
“First and foremost, before New Edition, I was a solo act before I put New Edition together,” the “My Prerogative” performer clarified. “I was used to being a solo artist. I wanted to be a solo artist getting into this industry. It just so happened that me putting the group together got me to where I needed to be.”
He continued, “I had no reason to be in the group anymore because I had gotten to the place that I wanted to be, and I wanted to be free of the bubblegum candy s**t that they was putting out there.”
Brown then stated that the real version of himself wasn’t what the miniseries BET’s The New Edition Story portrayed.
“Some parts were (true),” he stated. “The doing drugs part…I was selling drugs. I wasn’t doing drugs.”
Tyson brought up the story of him frying chicken with his mother’s cocaine while assuming it was flour. The story was included in his New York Times best-selling book “Every Little Step: My Story.”
If you go through the book, there’s a story about when I was younger. My mother used to deal. She used to keep the coke in the freezer in a plastic bag, and I thought it was flour,” the singer-songwriter said. “And I didn’t know it was, you know. I was about 8 or 9 years old. I called myself, you know, cooking for the family.”
