Every Little Step: My Story by Brown Bobby & Chiles Nick

Author:Brown, Bobby & Chiles, Nick [Brown, Bobby]
Language: eng
Format: azw3
Publisher: HarperCollins
Published: 2016-06-12T16:00:00+00:00

Home Again

When the guys in New Edition started making noise in 1995 about having me rejoin the group for its next album and tour, I was ready to get out of the house. Krissi was about two and I had spent the last couple of years at home as a father and husband and also managing Whitney’s affairs. I had gotten the break from performing and traveling that I had been looking for; now I was ready to get back out there.

It had been a decade since I walked away from New Edition. The only group member I’d kept in contact with over the ensuing years was Ralph Tresvant. He and I remained close as ever, but I didn’t speak to Mike, Ronnie or Ricky for many years after the breakup. I admit that I still held on to quite a bit of animosity. After all, they had allowed management—in fact, the same people who were managing me for my solo career—to talk them into voting me out of my own group, the group I started. That didn’t go down easy for me, so I was pissed off for a long time.

But over the years my bitterness had subsided. I started to ask myself, What the fuck am I mad about? I had gone on to a hugely successful, groundbreaking solo career. I was married to one of the most beautiful, talented artists in the world. I had an adorable baby girl and three other wonderful kids. Life was looking real good for me.

The members of New Edition couldn’t deny my success, so they granted me the respect I hoped for when we came back together. So many years had passed that the tensions were mostly gone. We were grown men now, so we had developed maturity and perspective. As for me, I didn’t need the reunion. I didn’t need money, and I certainly didn’t need any more fame or notoriety. I was happy to get back out on the road with my old friends.

Right away, when we started talking about money I was brought back to the early days of New Edition. The first thing I heard was that the tour would have thirty dates—but the group members weren’t going to make any money. We would have to do a second leg of the tour in order to clear any money. My brother, Tommy, and I thought that was absurd. This tour was going to be a major event, just like the album release. The Home Again album sold 441,000 copies in its first week, debuting at number one on the Billboard charts. It eventually would sell more than two million, demonstrating that there was tremendous fan interest in our reunion. But yet, the performers on the tour wouldn’t make any money?

MCA kept pushing me and Tommy to sign with the group, claiming they needed me to be under the same liability. But I refused—I was a solo artist with no interest in being considered the same entity as New Edition, with the same contractual deals and obligations.

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