{"id":102674,"date":"2022-05-28T10:29:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/bobby-brown-recounts-the-making-of-my-prerogative-in-new-doc-clip\/"},"modified":"2022-05-28T10:29:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-28T04:59:00","slug":"bobby-brown-recounts-the-making-of-my-prerogative-in-new-doc-clip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/bobby-brown-recounts-the-making-of-my-prerogative-in-new-doc-clip\/","title":{"rendered":"Bobby Brown Recounts the Making of ‘My Prerogative’ in New Doc Clip"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Bobby Brown recounts the origins of new jack swing and his hit \u201cMy Prerogative\u201d in a new clip from the upcoming two-part documentary Biography: Bobby Brown<\/i>. It airs May 30 and May 31 on A&E.<\/p>\n

The clip begins with Brown and critic\/author Nelson George offering a succinct breakdown of new jack swing, the latter explaining how it took \u201cthe aggression of hip-hop and some of the instrumental sounds, but mixed them with R&B melodies.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The producer at the forefront of this revolution was Teddy Riley, who invited Brown to his mother\u2019s apartment in Harlem for a recording session. \u201cThere was keyboards everywhere, we had the mics set up in the bathroom,\u201d Brown recalled. \u201cWe just decided that, no matter what, we were gonna make something funky out of this.\u201d\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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What emerged was \u201cMy Prerogative,\u201d a career-defining hit that anchored Brown\u2019s 1988 album, Don\u2019t Be Cruel<\/i>. The clip ends with Jermaine Dupri summarizing what made Brown so special in that moment: \u201cHe understood, if your attitude is street, let that be what it is. But when you sing, be Smokey Robinson. And when you dance and perform, be Fred Astaire, be Michael Jackson. To me, Bobby had figured all that out, and when he locked that in, you couldn\u2019t stop him.\u201d<\/p>\n

Biography: Bobby Brown <\/i>will offer an extensive overview of Brown\u2019s wildly successful, though often equally tumultuous life and career. Per a press release, Brown will discuss his struggles with substance abuse, his marriage to Whitney Houston, as well as Houston\u2019s death and the death of his two children, Bobby Brown, Jr. and Bobbi Kristina Brown. The documentary also reportedly features footage of Brown visiting the gravesite of Houston and Bobbi Kristina Brown for the first time.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The press release does not state whether Brown will discuss some of the domestic violence and abuse allegations against him: In 1998 he was accused of sexual battery, but that case was dismissed<\/a> due to lack of evidence; and in 2003, he was charged with battery after an altercation with Houston. In his memoir, Every Little Step<\/i>, Brown did admit to striking Houston<\/a> on one occasion, but denied claims that he was abusive towards his late ex-wife.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bobby Brown recounts the origins of new jack swing and his hit \u201cMy Prerogative\u201d in a new clip from the upcoming two-part documentary Biography: Bobby Brown. It airs May 30 and May 31 on A&E. The clip begins with Brown and critic\/author Nelson George offering a succinct breakdown of new jack swing, the latter explaining […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":51,"featured_media":102675,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[101,3,105,106],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Bobby-Brown-Recounts-the-Making-of-My-Prerogative-in-New.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102674"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/51"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=102674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102675"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=102674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=102674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/centralrecorder.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=102674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}