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Bobby Brown Humps Around, Axl Rose Wears Peach Suit, Public Enemy Get Hazy: This Week In 1992

Bobby Brown resurfaced back in 1992 after a two-year hiatus with a new wife, fellow singer Whitney Houston, a new album called Bobby and a new single, titled "Humpin' Around." Brown flew into New York to shoot a video for the tune and MTV News dropped by.

" 'Humpin' Around' is this message that it's Bobby humpin' around on the side ... or is he loyal to his leading lady? We're gonna try and make the viewer guess," Lionel Martin, the director of the video, said.

"Don't look at the fact that I'm a married man, ladies out there," Brown said. "You know what I'm saying, 'cause I still feel for ya, baby. I swear I still feel for you."

Guns N' Roses frontman Axl Rose appeared to be edging toward the fashion vanguard in the summer of '92. When he was arrested on a misdemeanor warrant in New York's Kennedy Airport he was wearing a T-shirt from Gianni Versace, the upscale Italian designer, and when he appeared in a St. Louis courtroom two days later he was sporting a peach Versace suit.

"Versace is just a huge Guns N' Roses head," said the singer, who rose to stardom decked out in tight leather pants and motorcycle boots. "The majority of music at his fashion shows is Guns N' Roses. I went to an Elton John show with him and we got along great. He wants me to do a fashion show."

So did Axl actually plan on doing a little turn on the catwalk?

"I don't know," he said. "We'll see what happens. He wants to make me clothes to wear. It could be fun."

(Gianni Versace was murdered on July 15, 1997. The prime suspect in the slaying was alleged serial killer Andrew Cunanan, who committed suicide a week later.)

Public Enemy were in Los Angeles shooting a video for their track "Hazy Shade of Criminal," one of six new numbers that would be included on their remix album Greatest Misses. The video was set in a federal courthouse where mafia bigwigs, crooked politicians, and sexually abusive supreme court judges all manage to weasel their way out of just punishment.

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