October 31 [7:55 EDT] -- Bobby Brown has a new album out this week called "Forever," and when he stopped by MTV to promote it on Wednesday he let loose with a few unexpected comments about Babyface and his old pals in New Edition.
"This time I worked with people that do it just as well as I do," Brown said of his new album. "Jeff Redd for instance, he's a great person. He works up at the company, but he was also an artist, so it makes it easier to work with an artist than it would to work with say L.A. (Reid) or Babyface. They were artists before, but they lost it somewhere. I don't know what happened. They became businessmen, so the music part of it, you know, isn't as important. 'Face writes the same song over and over. He takes one song, and he's made a whole career out of it... off of just one song. 'Face, you gonna write some new stuff? Shoop, shoop," [500k QuickTime] Brown concluded.
The man who gave the world "My Prerogative" also sounded off on his comrades in New Edition, explaining why the group's recent reunion album and tour just didn't do it for him.
"Six people in a group and you're getting 100,000 a night. I make a 100,000 by myself," Brown noted. "So it's like splitting it five other ways, you end up with not too much of the pie. I got kids to support. I got a family to support. I got a wife that's like this (making a grand gesture with his hands), and then I'm working with something that's this small when I'm like this also. [500k QuickTime] It just didn't work out for me, you know. I can't be a part of anything that doesn't want to grow. If they don't know about what works, what it takes to become successful, to sell the multi-million albums, if they don't know and another person knows, then you should listen to that other person. They didn't listen to me. I was saying things that were a waste of breath, you know? [800k QuickTime] For me, I take this very seriously. I take the entertainment very serious, it's not just a job, it's an adventure."
Brown's latest adventure is called "Forever."
