In 1986, Bobby Brown left New Edition and went on to embark on a solo career. In BET's 2017 biopic, "The New Edition Story," it was once revealed that Brown began adding sexual strikes on stage, which went in opposition to the gang's healthy image (via The New York Post). Brown was once also skipping performances and began smoking marijuana. The crew started shortening Brown's solos and all the way through a efficiency in 1985, the singer threw a microphone at his bandmate, Michael Bivins. "I was tired of the teeny-bop thing. I wanted to grow as a performer and as a man," Brown advised The Post.
In an interview with BET, Brown published, "I was causing so much conflict with the way I performed and the way they performed and how fast I grew up and how fast they grew up." He additional added, "I felt restricted, I felt they didn't want me to do anything. I felt that anything that I did on stage was going to make everybody mad."
New Edition member Ralph Tresvant shared, "He just started doing Bobby Brown s***. He was showing up when he wanted to, not showing up to like key stuff — to 'Solid Gold' performances, television, 'Soul Train' — things that were key performances that we knew we had to be there to make a statement that we wanted to make. He started being the cat that stopped caring about all that." Despite Brown's differences together with his groupmates, they in the end reunited over time.
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