Remember That One Time Bobby Brown Dropped His Coke Live on Arsenio Hall 🤣 EDIT! Alternative, extended version of the fukkery

[Kasper KArr]

Teddy could’ve done the whole album if we are keeping it 100. Blood on the Dancefloor is from the Dangerous sessions and would’ve been a smash in the clubs if it made the album. I get that MJ wanted “anthems” like Heal The World but he didn’t realize he was making the best New Jack album ever and it crossed way over.

Can’t Let Her Get Away wouldn’t been a monster hit on black radio because brehs were already rocking with it. Check this video out. This is Soul Train playing an album cut — not a hit from the record. And you legit had the top MJ impersonator at the time dancing a whole routine.

Wow that was some fly shyt. I love our swag how smooth we do this. This was beautiful

 

[Mystic]

That's not the Arsenio show set.
Revising the story. Arsenio probably hosted that MTV event.

And he didn't even drop coke it was his watch. You can slow it down and see

But as usual OP just runs with the title

 

[Methodical]

 

[Kasper KArr]

And he didn't even drop coke it was his watch. You can slow it down and see

But as usual OP just runs with the title

Relax junkie it’s okay no one judging you for sniffing yayo

 

[MVike28]

That's not the Arsenio show set.
Revising the story. Arsenio probably hosted that MTV event.

American Music awards 89

 

[get these nets]

American Music awards 89

Thanks, but big MTV logo on the stage behind the performers.

 

[Gloxina]

Yo wtf lmao

 

[Lord_nikon]

Wooo that bag was fat!

that's what you call a 8 ball of cocaine

8 Ball

An eighth of an ounce of cocaine or some other drug

www.merriam-webster.com

 

[MVike28]

Thanks, but big MTV logo on the stage behind the performers.

My bad Breh 89 he was everywhere

 

[Dynamite James]

 

[™BlackPearl The Empress™]

 

[TDT]

That shyt had me rocking as a kid in Ghostbusters 2, especially when they played it to close the movie. shyt was dope asf

Still remember Bobby's walk-on cameo in the movie"Oh wow the GHOSTBUSTERS!! Here lemme get the door for you!!"

 

[wizworld]

Wow this was very eloquent and dope to read!!. Thanks for giving us game! Now one more question: was it known back then that it was baby face and LA Reid the real culprits behind Bobby success? Or it was on some keep it on the low shyt?

Personality wise Bobby was a one of one. There wasn't another singer that could have made it work. He adds a special edge to songs like "Every Little Step" & "On Our Own".

 

[Dynamite James]

@Kasper KArr Baybface and LA Reid was definitely well known. Those two and Jimmy Jam and Terry Lewis pretty much controlled the sound of R&B at the time.. so yes it was well known.

 

[Dynamite James]

Babyface wrote and produced for everyone in the mid 80s thru the 90s and beyond but when Bobby left New Edition he wanted to prove that he was a solo star and didn’t need anyone.

And the record label was behind him so they got him the best producers doing black music back in the late 80. Babyface and LA Reid were killing it (Babyface in particular) and laced Bobby with mid tempo shyt and slower joints that fit his voice (Bobby isn’t a strong singer but can show out on stage). Teddy Riley was making a ton of noise with New Jack Swing and naturally that was a fit for Bobby as well.

Top it off with Bobby’s personality and you had a dude who could dance, kinda sing and he was about the fukkery. Someone who was a post-Rick James, post-Alexander ONeal male black singer but no where on the level of Prince or Michael Jackson. But he had club records and songs for the ladies.

Only thing that slowed him down was the fukkery because he could’ve transitioned well to the mid-90s. Bel Biv Devoe flipped their whole male R&B group persona and were basically on some pre-Jodeci shyt that wasn’t going to be innocent like Boyz II Men — and they made hits so it worked.

Well you already explained. I was about to type an essay for breh